# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S184
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184. —«j “Missions

Total Figures Total Figures Total Figures '

for 1041 for 1943 for 1943
Number of stations 00250 254 258
Voting Members ... -- 825 339 357
Communicants 2 2,468 2,504 2,648
Communed _.... eaeegneeene 6,524 6,281 7,204
Souls _ 4,465 4,653 4,980
Confirmed. _ a 124 146 181
Baptized, adults __... _- —_-- 51 49 40
Baptized, children . - 89 55 74
Marriages _.____. ' 50 57 80
Burials* 39 34 55
Number of services ___. ... 2,547 2,286 2,558
Periods of instructions ......._. .-- 2,363 2,143 2,477
Pastoral and missionary calls ______ - 7,477 7,991 8,684
Children of all ages under

instruction 698 766 792

The official organ of these missions is the Deaf Lutheran,
a four-page monthly, It serves.as a co-ordinating, instructive, and
‘missionary agent of our Synod to the deaf throughout our country
and Canada. The editor is Pastor 0. C. Schroeder; assistant editor,
Pastor E. Mappes, and the business manager is Pastor N. P. Uhlig.

‘We regret very much that the Ephphatha Conference could
not meet in 1942 and 1943. We sincerely hope that it will be pos-
sible for the missionaries to meet in 1944. They need that per-
sonal contact with the men in the same work.

The Board held regular monthly meetings and several special
meetings during the past three years, The personnel of the Board
has not changed aside from adding a member proficient in the
sign language in the person of Pastor J ohn Schumacher of St. Paul,
Minn., thus carrying out Synod’s resolution of 1941,

The treasurer’s reports show that the following sums were
disbursed to carry on the work’in these missions during the past
three years:

In 1941: $56,027.37. This amount includes the $10,000.00 loan.
for the chapel and parsonage in Kansas City, Mo.

In 1942: $47,776.67. - .

In 1943: $59,089.88. This amount includes $5,893.76 loan for
the parsonage-library in Chicago,

Boarp oF Missions to Dear anp Biinp
Pastor H.A, Gamaer, Chairman ,
Pastor E. H. Bertram, Secretary
Mr. G. F. Kruse, Treasurer
Pastor Cart J. Horrmann,; Statistician.
Mr: J. P. Miuter
Pastor. Jonn: SCHUMACHER