# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S381
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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them than by means of a circuit-riding missionary

fon was born. Trailer Mission Manual has been issued by
Caemmerer, Rev. W. C. Birkner, and Rev. A. Maack.

We have a fully equipped trailer mission at work

In Montana
On the Alaskan Highway
_ In the Southern California. District
In the Atlantic District
‘In the Central District (beginning the
first of July)

Detailed planning for the use of the trailer mission has been
done: also by the California and Névada District and the South-
ea District.
The Northern Illinois District Mission Board put a trailer
mission to work in Chicago early in the fall of 1943. Rev. A. H.
Semmann, chairman of the Northern Illinois District, reports on
‘April 24 as follows:' So

“The mission started with the trailer and tent last summer
jig: getting along most wonderfully. Those brethren did a very.
fine job and laid a very good foundation, upon which our man
as been able to build up. A congregation has now been or-
‘ganized in Mount Greenwood (111th Street in Chicago’s South
ide). They have 18 voters to start. with and 86 communicants
d some over 130 souls. Prospects are very good.”

‘League is financing the Trailer Mission.
Our Lutheran Trailer Mission is fully equipped. A Trailer
ission outfit is not inexpensive. A complete outfit with auto-

oud-speaker system, moving picture projector, reels, slides,
literature, mimeograph equipment, charts, etc., costs, under

* unit. Our latest trailers are miniature chapels equipped with
‘altar; crucifix, lectern. A private service with about 25 people
can be held in the trailer. If necessary, the missionary and his
wife make the trailer their home. Wherever the Trailer Mission
has been tried and worked, it has received God’s richest blessings.

-ganization-of a Sunday school of 142 pupils in one of his stations

Miscellaneous Matters ; ‘881 _

with a church on wheels? Thus the idea of a trailer

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In the Atlantic District the Lutheran Women’s Missionary

mobile, chapel trailer, tent (seating 150) with chairs, platform, :

_ “present wartime priority restrictions, approximately $3,500 per

The Rey. W. Sonsthagen from the. Montana area tells of the or- .

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