# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S34
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84 New Members Received into Synod

New Members Received into Synod
I. Congregations (on recommendation of Committee 16):

1. Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Knox, Ind.,
into the Central District.

* 2. Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dallas Tex.,
into the English District.

* 3. Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church, Belding, Mich.,
into the English District.

4. Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Saginaw, Mich., into the
Michigan District.

5. Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Clovis, N. Mex.,
into the Texas District.

6. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Little Rock, Ark., into
the Western District.

7. Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church, Riverton, Wyo., into the North-
ern Nebraska District.

Il. Pastors and Teachers (on recommendation of the respective
District Presidents):

Atlantic District. Pastors: Carl Krueger (St. Louis), mission-
ary at large; Louis C. Meyer (St.Louis), assistant to District
President; Gerhard Germann (St. Louis), missionary at large;
Theodore P. Boernhoeft (St.Louis), Schenectady, N.Y. Wil-
liam Ruppar (St.Louis), missionary at large; Robert Lindemann
(St. Louis), missionary at large.

Brazil District. Pastors: Guilherme Carlos Figur, Frederico
Guilherme Warth, Walter Paulo Renncke, Leonidas Krey, Fried-
rich Schroeder, Nilo Strelow.

California and Nevada District. Pastors: William P. Grunow,
Oakland, Calif.; Erwin Fritze, Bakersfield, Calif.; Martin A. Paul,
Oroville, Calif,

Central District. Pastors: Norman Berning (St. Louis), Green-
dale, Ind.; Roy E. Guelzow (St. Louis), Columbus, Ind.; Fred.
Rediger (St. Louis), Noblesville, Ind.; Lynn Rittmann (St. Louis),
Logan, O.; William J. Schepman (St. Louis), Crown Point, Ind.;
Raymond Buck (St. Louis), East Chicago, Ind.; Otto W. Toelke
(St. Louis), Burlington, O.; Leonard F. Pranschke (St. Louis),
East Chicago, Ind.; Harold Luecke (St. Louis), Avilla, Ind.; Melvin
R. Hering (St. Louis), Akron, O.; Gerhard M. Lewerenz (St. Louis),
Austin, Ind.; B. Schumacher (St.Louis), Jackson and Lawrence
Counties, Ind. — Teachers: Lester Rush (River Forest), Hunting-
ton, Ind.; Edwin A. Jiede (River Forest), Shaker Heights, O.; Ed-
gar V. Tassler (River Forest), Lakewood, O.; Robert Demske
(River Forest) , Seymour, Ind.

Central Illinois District. Pastors: Arthur Kuehnert, Spring-
field, Ill.; Lester Kuker, Edinburg, Ill.; Charles Frentzel, Dieterich,
Ill.; Raymond Witt, Coal Valley, Il.

* The constitutions of these congregations had been approved by
the English District Committee on Constitutions.