# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S375
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

ye spiritual ministration, and their children must have op-
ties for Christian education. What is one single missionary
kan area of such gigantic proportions. The missionary oppor-
jnities among children and adults are a wide-open door to us.
Not all of the more than 750 war-production areas. present
blems as big as this one. However, every District in Synod
-own larger or smaller problems in conserving the migrat-

sach and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

ion history of our Church than that of our missionary workers
efense areas during the past year. It reads like a success

and thousands of hours of faithful; heartbreak-
ie Church _ ing activities. The work of these men should. be
written into the saga of our Church, Unlike the
more romantic and heralded deeds of the Army
haplains, their trek of hundreds of weary miles from trailer to
“trailer, from housing project to housing project; their weary
jours spent in seeking the whéreabouts of one moving, wander-
ing, vanishing defense worker, such plodding for God does not
end itself to dramatic story. The many meetings of the District
Mission Boards, their efforts to meet the emergency in their areas,
their sometimes discouraging and disheartening endeavors to
ecure workers, their efforts to secure places of worship, their
oblems with Federal Council of Churches committees, their
pleadings with housing co-ordinators for opportunities of wor-
ship in the larger defense housing projects — all these tell a story

the Lutheran defense worker with his Church.
No less glorious a page has been written by hundreds of in-
‘dividual pastors who on their own initiative have done heroic
‘work. In other congregations lay-member: conservation com-
” mittees have been formed by the pastor as “lay workers” for the

‘Lutheran ‘Laymen’s League, through .its individual members, its
“seminars, its literature, has again’shown itself the willing hand-
‘maiden of the Church. The Lutheran Women’s Missionary
‘League, especially in its District organizations, has taken up the
". question of conserving the fellow members of our Church and is

: .Miscellaneous Matters 875

eing employed in this area. These members of ours must

utherans of our Church and utilizing the opportunities \to |

There is probably no brighter page recorded in the Home —

ry. In between the lines you can read the record of hundreds"

of unremitting, faithful, patient, and courageous effort to keep --

. emergency. The Walther League has taken an active part. The