# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S177
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Various Missions 177

the local missionary’s enforced resignation because of continued
ill health. The headquarters for the Texas mission-field was
changed to Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1936. In February, 1936, we
placed a new worker in Canada, thus carrying out the resolution
of the Cleveland Convention, and in January, 1938, a new man
entered the work in the newly established Sioux Falls, S. Dak.,
field. The Spokane field, vacant since 1935, is still being served by
two of our missionaries together with their own fields.

It pleased God to take out of His Church Militant into His
Church Triumphant a very promising and able worker, Pastor
F. A. Hischke, missionary at St.Louis. He was summoned sud-
denly February 10, 1938. This is the first case in forty-two years
that a missionary has been taken from the ranks of our missions
to the deaf through death.

We have at present twenty workers in our Deaf and Blind
Missions serving 280 stations together with many State and county
schools, State hospitals and asylums for the deaf, the School for
the Blind at Berkeley, Cal., and the only college for the deaf, which
is at Washington, D.C. In Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City,
Mo., our missionaries preach also to the colored deaf, and the
Cleveland missionary has just begun to gather a group of colored
deaf. The St.Louis missionary has been very successful in his
work at the Seminary, instructing the students in the sign-
language. Sixty students attended his classes this last school-year.

That our missionaries come into contact with many children
and adults from coast to coast, from Texas to Canada, can be seen
from their annual reports. From these reports we give’ the fol- .
lowing summary statistics for the past three years:

Total Figures Total Figures Total Figures

for 1935 for 1986 for 1937
Number of Stations ............. 212 213 230
Voting Members ................ 317 278 290
Communicants .................. 1,818 1,961 2,052
Communed ..................... 4,578 4,989 4,291
Confirmed ...................... 122 112 138
Adult Baptisms ................. 48 39 27
Gained by Letter ............... 33 60 32
Gained by Confession of Faith .. 31 28 34
Baptisms, Children .............. 53 58 47
Marriages ...................... 32 27 34
Burials .........0..0 000000000... 20 35 26
Number of Services ............ 2,191 2,336 2,304
Periods of Instruction ........... 1,965 2,268 2,035
Pastoral Calls ................... 3,201 2,978 2,980
Missionary Calls ................ 4,549 4,211 4,275
Children of All Ages under
Instruction ................. 435 455 567

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