# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S164
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

164s * Missions

Subsidies from 1941 to 1943

. Wartime Mis-
Home Missions Cost sion and Con-
(Mission Expansion Funds Included) servation Fund

Cost Cost Cost Cost

District 1041 1942 1943 1943
Alberta a. Br. Columbia $ 29,060.00 $ 30,000.00 $ 31,000.00 $ 2,688.34
Atlantic 35,676.15 40,000.00 33,560.00 —
California and Nevada _._ 20,750.00 20,637.00 25,916.59 6,118.27
Colorado __. 17,000.00 18,050.00 21,225.00 - _

Manitoba a. Saskatchewan 23,500.00 21,500.00 16,500.00 —
N. Dakota and Montana _ 13,350.00 14,963.70 15,110.00 - 1,579.70

Oklahoma .__.. ————-- 11,508.00 14,700.00 12,250.00 —.
Oregon and Washington - 24,100.00 27,825.07 18,300.00 8,790.00
Southeastern 20,142.50 24,493.50 22,221.10 3,709.59
Southern ____..§_ 16,930.00 19,450.00 14,000.00 525.00
Southern California 16,500.00 19,000.00 _ 21,000.00 8,453.40
Texas 14,878.00 11,800.00 — . 4,773.64
Emergency and :

Board Expense _..... 1,387.44 329.67 856.28 —

$244,681.09 $262,748.94 $231,938.97 $ 36,637.94

Spanish Literature ___.._.

Central ww .$ 250.00 $ 600.00 —— $ 675.00
Eastern 0 ————— 1,220.00 2,475.00 $ 3,760.00 1,855.00
English ___ — — — —
Iowa East .. — — 225.00 330.00
Kansas — —_— 45.00 3,165.37
Michigan _.: — — — 4,844.06
Minnesota 1,279.96 — 756.00 —
Northern Ilinois. 6,618.75 6,298.87 5,000.00 —
Northern Nebraska 495.00 — 1,438.70 —
South Dakota __ - — — 1,350.00
Southern Nebraska _____ — — 4,359.33
South Wisconsin — 425.00 300.00
‘Western — — 1,170.50

1,577.83 *408.04 —

208.20
$ 10,071.91 $ 10,951.70 $ 11,241.66 $ 18,049.26
753.00

$254,753.00 $273,700.64 $243,180.63 $ 54,687.20

SSS SS

Prospects for the Future.—The prospects for the future are
brighter than ever. With improved finances within the mission
fields and in Synod: at large, we can go forward with the opening
and with the development of new fields in nearly all of the Districts.
When existing priorities are lifted, much-needed chapels can be
built. Additional pastors and teachers are needed. Our seminaries
cannot meet the present situation. Our ‘manpower in existing
fields must be carefully considered and evaluated. Elimination
of barren and nonproductive fields, consolidation of congregations
and preaching stations, must be effected in the interest of efficiency
and of the conservation of manpower. Will not some of the
retired pastors still able to do part-time duty come to the assistance

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