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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 144

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144 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

8. 1,148 copies of Sche-erith Isroel were sent to Jews by mail.

9. 2 sick-calls were made on request in St. Francis Hospital.

10. 20 lectures and 2 sermons were delivered in behalf of Jewish
Missions.

11. The tenth number of Sche-erith Isroel was edited and pub-
lished.

A greatly reduced budget allowance for this mission required
the dismissal of the woman worker and the closing of the store-front
chapel in 1988. While the dismissal of the woman worker greatly
curtailed the work, the closing of the chapel did no harm. The
present annual cost of the mission is $2,000.

Report of Committee 9: —

In reference to the Jewish Mission in New York the Board of
Directors of the Atlantic District submitted a detailed report of the
work of Missionary Nathaniel Friedmann. It also mentions the
fact that the woman worker was dismissed and that the store-front
chapel was closed in 1983 because of the reduced budget allowance
for this mission. In regard to this the said Board of Directors says:
“While the dismissal of the woman worker greatly curtailed the work,
the closing of the chapel did no harm.”

Your Committee recommends that Synod encourage the Board
of Directors of the Atlantic District to reinstate the woman worker
as soon as sufficient funds in the budget allowance are available.

Action of Synod.
Synod adopted this recommendation.

Turning Over Various Missions to the Atlantic District.

Concerning the Foreign-tongue, Immigrant and Seamen’s, and
Jewish missions in New York, which were referred to the Atlantic
District by the Synod of 1932, the Board of Directors of the Atlantic
District reported in Memorial 306: —

All these missions, each of them located in the Atlantic District,
have been supervised for Synod by the Board of Directors of. the
Atlantic District since July, 1932. In the convention of the Atlantic
District held at Danbury, Conn., in June, 1933, the following reso-
lutions were passed : —

Wuereas, The Synod has requested the District to take over seven
Foreign-tongue Missiozis, the Jewish Mission in New York, and the
Immigrant and Seamen’s Missions; and

Wuereas, Their financial support would entail an’ impossible
burden on our Home Mission treasury; therefore be it

Resolved, That the present arrangement of supervision without