# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S146
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146 Missions in General

in gathering about himself a group of more than 50 students at
Concordia Seminary and interesting them in the Deaf Missions
and teaching them the rudiments of the sign-language.

48. At a recent meeting with the members of the Mission
Board the regular visitation of the organized mission-congregations
and preaching-stations and of the missionaries serving them was
discussed. We believe that such visitation by members of the
Board will mean much for the development of these missions.
That such visitations were not made in the past in such a measure
as it might have been done was largely due to the expense in-
volved. Then, too, we realize the difficulties confronting the Board
in carrying out a satisfactory visitation through an interpreter as
is now necessary since no member of the Board is conversant with
the sign-language.

49, In the interest of our missionaries and our deaf congrega-
tions and preaching-stations we suggest

50. That the Board of our Deaf and Blind Missions be en-
couraged to institute a personal visitation of the mission-stations
at regular intervals;

51. That a member conversant with the sign-language be added
to the membership of the Board.

Colored Missions of the Synodical Conference

52. Cost of Colored Missions (our part)
1935 1936 1937
$71,823.94 $68,969.14 $75,509.00

53. With the increased migration of the colored race from the
South to the Northern cities, mission activities on the part of our
pastors and congregations in the larger metropolitan areas have
more and more been directed toward the colored people. In
Chicago, Detroit, and Pittsburgh, in Muskogee, Okla.,\and other
large centers, the work of Colored Missions was sponsored. In
most instances, as is quite proper, the Missionary Board of the
Synodical Conference was consulted. And the Missionary Board
with its wealth of experience was ever ready to advise pastors
and congregations as they entered upon a colored mission within
their community. The policy of the Missionary Board was, and

still is, to cooperate with the congregations interested in the

opening of a colored mission in their midst; but we believe that
all pastors and congregations contemplating the opening of a
colored mission ought to be held to consult first with the Missionary
Board of the Synodical Conference, which by intersynodical agree-
ment is the Board to carry on Colored Missions in our country.