# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S163
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

this building, having a seating capacity of about 200. A pastor
was. called to take care of the spiritual needs of servicemen and
civilians. In 1943 4,800 attended the services, 2,200 partook of Holy
Communion, During the past-year five local adults were confirmed.
There is a deep local interest in a Christian day school. A fund of
about $1,200 has already been gathered for a school. The Cali-
"fornia and Nevada District Mission Board was placed in charge of

the development of missions in the Hawaiian Islands. With the
. help of the Board of Home Missions a ‘missionary will be sent to
, the Hawaiian Islands as soon as present conditions will permit,

©. Tf time will permit, the convention might call upon the secretary
of missions to briefly report on the stirring meeting held at Honolulu.

Mexico. — After years of patient effort we now have gained
a foothold both in Mexico City and in Monterrey, Mexico. For
good reasons we cannot write in full. But the Board of ‘Home
Missions . will appreciate the privilege to tell on the floor of the
convention, 6f the mysterious workings of the Lord, and of the
success granted in this our neighbor republic. At present the
‘Missions in Mexico are under the supervision and the direction
of the Texas District Home Mission Board. The interest in the
development of these missions in Mexico is rather restricted to,
and localized within, the Texas District. As we look to the future.
and to the development of an aggressive intensified mission program
not only in Mexico but also in Central America, reaching down to
Panama, we believe the effort to be of such magnitude and of
such far-reaching importance that these missions ought to be
the concern not. of one District only but of the entire Synod and .
that the appointment of a Separate committee for these missions
ought to be seriously considered. The experience gathered by
* brethren in Texas in the conduct of missions in Mexico might be
considered in the election of one or the other of the brethren to
the Committee on Missions in Mexico and in Central. America.

Membership of the Board of Home Missions. — At the con-
vention held at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1941, it became our solemn
duty to report the death of a faithful member of the Board, Pastor
Wm. Grother, and of the prolonged illness of Pastor E, F. Schueler.
During the past triennium it pleased the Lord to call to the Church
Triumphant Pastor Schueler. (who had retired from the Board
' of Home Missions) and Messrs. Ernst Kuechle and Henry Vetter,
for many years consecrated members of the Board. May’ their
devout interest in the cause of missions be a source of inspira-
tion to all. . oo

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