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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 150

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150 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Our seminary at Porto Alegre and the college at Crespo are
striving ever more to supply the fields with native-born workers, and
they are making good progress in this respect. The last graduating
class from Porto Alegre numbered eight ministerial candidates and
five teachers. One of these ministerial candidates, Candidate Berthold
Proksch, met with an untimely death a few weeks after his gradua-
tion and before he had entered the ministry. At the seminary in
Porto Alegre we have five professors, while at Crespo two professors
and one assistant are active. ,

The following short items concerning the work in the two Dis-
triets will clearly show the progress of the work in this vast. field.
In spite of the fact that we were forced to add additional costs to
the work and send more laborers into the field, the work has been
carried on with less actual expenditure of money than in former years,
This is due to the whole-hearted efforts of the various men in the
field in working faithfully toward the goal of self-support, a goal
which they are constantly striving to reach as far as it pertains to
financial support given by Synod at large. To the credit of the men
in the field let it be said that the brunt of these reductions has been
borne by the men themselves. Increased activity on the part of
various congregations has not been without fruit, which in large part
is due to a growing sense of personal responsibility of the members of
the congregations for the preaching of the Gospel in their midst.

Brazil.

During the last triennium ten men have been placed in this field,
some indeed ag replacements, others, however, because of the steady
growth of the work in the field. One of these men, Pastor L. F. Klug,
made a generous offer to your Board, which was also accepted, viz.,
personally to finance his trip to Brazil and to labor there for the
period of one year without any remuneration from the Mission Board.
Pastor Klug was used to explore a field which seemingly held promise,
but had to be abandoned because of lack of funds, Pastor Klug
was transferred to the state of Espirito Santo, and the work in Mina
Geraes is to be continued from Rio de Janeiro,

Six congregations in Brazil have become self-sustaining during
the past three years, This makes a total of eleven such congrega-
tions in Brazil).

Two men are at present being called to this field. This was made
necessary by the fact that four men actively engaged in this field:
have been forced to resign because of illness. Their parishes have
been divided in such a manner that the two men will be able to carry
on the work at least temporarily. Portions of these parishes have been
added to other fields.