LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1932, Page 104

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134 Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth Regular Convention,

For 1933, according to present needs, including the 10-per-¢
cut and less the anticipated income of $3,000 from collections an

contributions, the budget ought to be placed at $48,188 for the fol]
ing items: — omow-

Salaries
TTT eee cece eee eee ec ence, $29,808.00
Rentals tet tt ttt tet ee ee eee cece ec eee eae, 6,700.00
raveling Expenses .....00 0000111) 177777 5,500.00
Traveling Expenses for Board ............. ’200.00
Postage and Stationery ......0000000 207777 250.00
Interest on Loans 00.00.0111 2770022770077 30.00

Printing Deaf Lutheran and Mail-Missi
Blind Missions vee, 2200.00

Miscellaneous

$51,188.00
LOBE 3,000.00
—____

We hope your committee will make a strong appeal for this
amount. May God continue to bless also these missions!

Respectfully,
H. A. Gamorr, Chairman.

With reference to this report, Committee 11 brought in its reco
mendations, which were adopted in the following form: — _

First, we recommend that Synod instruct the Board for Deaf-
mute Missions together with Synod’s Board of Directors to fix the
budget and also readjust all salaries in a manner which is fair and
just to every missionary.

Secondly, concerning the placing of a new missionary in Canada

additional Man-power cannot be sent to Western Canada, thus con-
curring in the opinion of the Board of Missions to the Deaf and Blind.

Thirdly, whereas the deaf-mute Congregations are not able to give
the security demanded by Synod’s regulations, we recommend that

Synod instruct its Board of Directors to make special concessions in
granting loans from the General Church Extension Fund to these
congregations for the erection of chapel-parsonages wherever in the
opinion of the Board of Missions to Deaf and Blind and to the satis-
faction of the Board of Directors such are necessary.

Fourthly, referring to the unprinted report of the Board of Mis-
sions to the Deaf and Blind concerning the general conference of the
Missionaries to the deaf and blind, we recommend ——

a. That this conference, known as the Ephphatha Conference, be
not held this year due to prevailing economic conditions.

b. We further recommend that Synod resolve that all conferences
of workers in the Deaf-mute Missions be held only with the full ap-
proval of the Board of Directors.

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1932, 135

Fifthly, referring to a recommendation from Committee 8 per-
taining to a course in sign-language at Concordia Seminary at
st. Louis, we recommend the following : —

Wuereas, A knowledge of the sign-language would enable local
pastors to serve isolated deaf-mutes more regularly and efficiently; and

Wuereas, The traveling expenses of our missionaries to the deaf-
mutes would be considerably reduced; and

Wuereas, Your Committee is of the opinion that a course in the
sign-language could be given with little or no additional expense,
therefore we

Recommend, That instruction in the sign-language be given at
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

Report of Board for Indian Missions.
(Memorial 306.)

Your Board for Indian Missions herewith tenders its report for
the past three years. We may report that by the gracious assistance
of the Lord of the Church a gradual, but steady forward movement
in this mission has been made. The work among Indians in open
reservations cannot be restricted to the Indians. Wherever we have
congregations and preaching-stations among the Indians, we are also
receiving into membership such as cannot be served by. white con-
gregations. This is true of Red Springs, Oneida, Neopit, and
Morgan Siding. Speaking therefore of members and communicants,
we find that in each of these congregations and preaching-stations
also quite a number of white persons are included. — Herewith we
submit a brief report on all stations and congregations served.

The Boarding-School at Red Springs, Shawano Co., Wis.

At this school Indian children are taken care of for about eight
and a half months. The children come from many different localities.
The majority are Stockbridge and Oneida Indians. At the present
time (March, 1932) our enrolment is 126 children, 59 boys and
52 girls boarding and 9 boys and 6 girls attending as day-pupils.
Rev. O. W. C. Boettcher is the superintendent of the boarding-school.
Under his supervision there are three teachers, and the necessary help
is employed at the dormitory. Two deaconesses are employed this
year as matron and assistant matron. In 1930 a new heating-plant
was installed in the dormitory at a cost of $3,252.56. In the near
future the roof on the dormitory will have to be replaced. The cost
will be about $1,000.

Red Springs Congregation. Rev. 0. W. C. Boettcher, Missionary.
The report of our missionary at the end of this triennium shows

129 souls, 79 communicants, 22 voting members; of these 6 voting

members, 23 communicants, and 34 souls are white. Ministerial acts