# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S193
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Various Missions 193

April 24. Help at last! But, after all, what is that among so many
famished souls in Ibesikpo land? More workers are needed to do
justice in some degree to this new and important venture.

While your Board is following the principle to build up a self-
sustaining and self-propagating Church in Africa, it stands to
reason that the mother Church must

a) Provide for the needs of the workers she sends over;

b) Assist the African Missions to erect several necessary build-
ings for their future development. This plan includes the fol-
lowing: a house for the missionary at the boys’ Central School
(native style), a dormitory and a kitchen at the boys’ Central
School, a girls’ school-building, and a home for the lady teachers.

(These buildings are all to be built according to native style,
and our churches in Africa will bear one half of the expense and
keep these buildings in repair after they have once been erected.
In their great poverty these people could not possibly build these
schools alone, and yet they are so very necessary for a proper
foundation to a healthy development of the mission.)

Our people in Africa build their own churches and keep them
in repair. They also salary their teachers. This arrangement shall
continue.

, On account of the very primitive conditions in Nigeria it stands
to reason that our deaconess, Miss Helen Kluck, is overburdened
with work, looking after the needs of the people as they come to
her day after day and also endeavoring to instruct them how to
preserve their health.

The missionaries at present are living in homes constructed
according to the native style, poles and mud. Each one is serving
sixteen stations, and, needless to say, their time is fully occupied.
Both of them as well as the deaconess consider it a distinct privilege
and an unmerited blessing of God to labor in this fertile field.

‘They do not yearn for pity, but they do plead for the prayers and

support of the Christians at home.

- We thank the Hon. Synod for the cheerful support of the work

~ among the Negroes at home and abroad and confidently look for-

ward to a continuance of such support.
Respectfully,

Tue Boarp ror CoLoreD MISSIONS
L. A. Wister, Executive Secretary

A
q

Dr. Nau opened the discussion of the missions in Africa with
a report based on his personal experiences. Committee 2 reported:

Resolved, That we join our venerable sister synods of the
Synodical Conference in thanksgiving for the signal blessings
which the Lord has bestowed upon our Colored Missions during
13

natn nner errant REE ETA TSOP RAPES AMEN HA