LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1992, Page 100

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We highly esteem your trust and brotherly love. We are
very grateful to you for many helps in our mission work
with children and youth. Shortly before our departure to
you, we had already received the first shipment of mate-
rials for Sunday schools provided in Slovak translation by
Concordia Publishing House.

We are grateful for Dr. David Daniel, who in cooperation
with the Mission Department of the headquarters, me-
diates to us help to our schools, to our teachers, to our
doctors. We thank also the other co-workers with us,
namely, to Dr. Arnold Schmidt, Paul Devantier, Rev. Du-
san Toth, and many others whom we cannot enumerate
here. And also the representatives of the many congre-
gations of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. And we
thank you for all the help, material and spiritual, granted
to us.

It is necessary for us to be in contact to inform each
other and to confirm each other in the faith, so that we
would wipe out the differences, straighten inequalities,
and deepen trust and cooperation between our churches.
We would like to be useful to you in our faith, to be an
example of faithfulness and witness, and we would like
mostly to strengthen our fellowship in the faith so that our
Lord Jesus Christ would be glorified in our lives so that
al} of us will fulfill our services which we have received in
the Lord.

At the present time we consider our main task to be
evangelism and mission, spiritual reformation, and spiri-
tual growth of the church on every side. We realize that
there is much hard work awaiting us. We are lacking
church workers. There is the possibility of separation of

the church and state in our country, which will cause us
many economic problems and tasks. The knowledge that
we can rely upon our brothers and sisters in the faith
strengthens us much.

There is a bright future in Christ for you here in Amer-
ica and also for us at home in Czechoslovakia. He, the Lord
of the church, is with you. His faithfulness and His truth
do not change. To you who are worn out in work and in
service, He gives rest. He it is who causes that His yoke
is easy for you and His burden is light. Apart from Him
you can do nothing. It is His will that you would go forth
and bring forth the fruit, and so that your fruit would
remain, and so that the Father would grant you whatever
you would pray for in the name of Jesus.

May the Lord bless our cooperation and this, your con-
vention. Thank you.

Pavel Uhorskai, Bishop General

Dr. Bohlmann:

We thank you for those wonderful words, and we thank
you for your own boldness in confessing Christ as a pastor
of Christ’s church for many years. I remember shedding
some tears in Bratislava when I heard stories you told
about the years,that you suffered some persecution be-
cause of your boldness, but as a pastor of Christ’s church
how you always prepared a sermon in case God would give
you an opportunity to preach it.

You honor us by accepting our meager efforts to help
your people. And we pray that the invitation you have
given for continued cooperation in proclaiming the Word
of God is one that God will grant us.