PAM, (59 AL Birt’s-Eur Vin @ @ of the Forezgn Mission Fields of the United Lutheran Church Rev. CHRISTIAN FREDERICK HEYER, M. D. First American Lutheran Foreign Missionary Board of Horeign Missions OF THE UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH, IN AMERICA Baltimore, Maryland FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION NVYSHLNT GALINN AH SIga¥OA AO GAHVOg LIN3GISSYd-S5IA AN3q0ISaud VIHdT30V1IHd “GC "G ‘A3ZN38 AYOCORHL “'D “ARY ‘OW ‘SYNOWILIVE “G "CG ‘1138 “M VHZa ‘AaHY AL Birl’s-Gye View of Ohe Horevign Mission Hivlds of Ohe Cnited Lattheran Chueh HE Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America is related to three continents, Asia, Africa and South America, and is responsible in part for their Christianization. Some of our mission fields are small and must be enlarged. Our Foreign Mission work challenges the very best effort of our Church. 4 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS India HE intrepid pioneer, Rev. Christian Fred- © erick Heyer, M.D., went to India in 1842, and laid the foundation for both our Guntur and Rajahmundry Missions. The Guntur Mission Field lies south of the Krishna River in the Telugu area of the Madras Presidency, India. One hundred miles north of it, along the banks of the Godavery River and still in the Telugu country, lies the field which centers in Rajahmundry. The Guntur Field contains a population of approximately 1,500,000, and the Rajahmundry Field, 3,000,000, Hindus and Mohammedans. How woefully undermanned both of these fields are, may be noted from the fact that in the one there are at present only eleven or- dained men, an average of one ordained mis- sionary to every 5,000 baptized Christians; and in the other there are nine men, or one ordained missionary to every 3,000 baptized Christians. Of course the bulk of the mission work is and must be done by the native Christian work- ers, of whom there are 900 in the Guntur Field and 650 in the Rajahmundry Field, a total of 1550; but the expansion of the work is seriously retarded by inadequate oversight due to the shortage of foreign missionaries. Fifty new missionaries, men and women, ought to leave for our India fields within the next two years. Here is a subject for earnest and continual prayer. The women’s work has gone forward in FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 4) recent years with more rapidity than any other part, which is due to the splendid interest and support of our American Women’s Missionary Societies. In the Guntur Mission there are four- teen, and in the Rajahmundry Mission eleven single women at work in their several depart- ments. The story of their successful efforts in zenana, educational, medical, philanthropic and industrial work at the main stations and, more recently, at a number of out-stations, forms a fascinating chapter of our mission history. Ohe Jevupore District T is quite certain that the former Breklum I Mission in the Jeypore District will be as- signed by the Indian Government to the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Luth- eran Church in America. Before the war forty missionaries were at work in this Mission with its 26,000 converts. During the war one of our missionaries has supervised the entire work. We are now appropriating the sum of one thousand dollars a month for the Jeypore Dis- trict. After it has been definitely assigned to us, we must adequately man and finance it. Burma CONGREGATION of Telugu Lutherans AL in Rangoon, Burma, numbering 350 mem- bers, mostly men, is in charge of a cate- chist. It should be strengthened and other congregations should be established in Burma, where many of our Telugu Lutherans find em- ployment. 6 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS Japan APAN is a great and important foreign mis- J sion field. The Missions of the United Synod in the South and of the General Council, working in the islands of Kyushu and Hondo, are now united to hasten the Christian conquest of the land of the Rising Sun. The main stations are Saga, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Osaka, Toyohashi, Nagoya and Tokyo. Look them up on the map and see how strategic they are. The baptized membership is 700. There are eighteen Japanese pastors, evan- gelists and other Japanese workers employed in the united Mission. The educational work comprises Kinder- gartens, Sunday Schools and a large Middle School with a Theological Department. This school is called the Kyushu Gakuin. It is lo- cated at Kumamoto and has an enrollment of over 550 pupils. There are ten missionary families and three single women at work in the Mission. At the Peace Table non-Christian Japan ranks as one of the five great nations of the world. We share with other American Churches the sacred task of giving the Gospel to Japan. American Lutheran missionaries have been at work in the empire for twenty-seven years, FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS if but their number has been small and their equipment inadequate. Now that the whole United Lutheran Church in America is back of the enterprise, the next few years should wit- ness the rapid and strong growth of our Luth- eran Mission in Japan. OUR TOKYO MISSIONARY IN A KUMURA FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 8 ‘aTUTY NOISSIJ YOUND*) 4HY, 40 dvi OPA, nike Sais , < - OAT Wes (matory \s i r id a: "oak ng OOS TTI MOM. ae , mts YS Ys ue rie ve sere forms the ristna or Krishna River northern boundary line of the Guntur Field. K The The county. is the Hindu name for town of Guntur is the county seat and the headquarters of the Mission. Taluq FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS ‘dTaIY NOISSIP. AUVOGNOWHVEVY AHL AO dVI S Tn Shaw TONY ~~ 7 “aLund¥5y, ea XOWL VAVAIGNS —SE anny NE — | Pen O rN tA ene . rite i ‘ * as OID Le ¢ The Rajahmundry Field lies on both sides of the Godaver ht above the delta a town of fifty thousand in- Rig where the Mission y River. is Rajahmundry, habitants, located. institutions are 10 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS Alfrica HE Mission in Africa is located in Liberia. Liberia must be free indeed! We must help to make it free through the Gospel of the great Liberator, the divine Redeemer, Jesus Christ. The name of the main station—Muhlenberg —should be in itself an impelling incentive to missionary work. Another important station is Buhlo Pelle, where considerable progress has been made in evangelistic work. Work in the interior towns and villages is very promising and should be pushed with vigor. To give strength to the religious effort of the mission- aries considerable industrial mission work is undertaken. A coffee plantation of one hundred acres is under cultivation. The educational work needs strengthening and there is much opportunity for effective medical work. Seven- teen foreign missionaries, including wives of missionaries, are in this field. Six are ordained men and five are single women. FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 11 South ALmerica UIANA, South America, like all of Gaul in Cesar’s day, is divided into three parts: British, Dutch and French Guiana. Our Mission is located in British Guiana. The main station is New Amsterdam, where a church was established by Dutch Lutherans in 1734. Out- stations are located on the Berbice River in Ituna, Maria Henrietta and St. Luist. The communicant membership of these congrega- tions numbers 3385, “decendants of those who in early times came to the colony and are the result of the commingling of various races.” In January, 1916, a missionary, ordained and married, was sent to take charge of this field under the direction of the Board of Foreign Missions. Others should be sent in order that the congregations already established may be- come centers of missionary effort extending inland among the aboriginal Indians. Buenuns Aires HE Executive Board of the United Luth- eran Church in America has just trans- ferred the mission work at Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, to our Board of Foreign Missions. This mission was established two years ago by the Pan Lutheran Society. Rev. HE. Ceder is the first and only missionary sent out by this Society. He is still at work in Buenos Aires. As soon as possible a second missionary will be sent to that city by the Board of For- eign Missions. 12 FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS Doane Administration OR the Home Administration of its foreign H mission work the United Lutheran Church elected twenty-one men, thirteen ministers and eight laymen, chosen largely from the membership of the uniting boards. They have organized the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church, incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland, with head- quarters in Baltimore. The office address is No. 21 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md. The officers and members of the Board are: Rey. Ezra K. Bett, D.D., President; Rrv. PRor. C. THEODORE BENZE, D.D., Vice-President; Rey. GEORGE DRAcH, Recording Secretary; Rev. L. B. Wotr, D.D., Treasurer. Members, whose term expires in 1924: Revs. Dr. Hzpa K. Bet, J. A. SINGMASTER, M. J. Hprine, C. T. Birnzz,. R. BIBLINSKI, -and Messrs. JAMES M. SNYDER and WILLIAM H. MENGES. Members, whose term expires in 1922: Revs. Dr. A. STEIMLE, JOHN A. WEYL, J. S. SIMON, L. C. MANGES, and Messrs. Henry P. BOYER, M.D., H. P. Moutiter, H. L. BonNHAM. Members, whose term expires in 1920: Revs. Dr. M. M. Kinarp, J. E. Byers, GEORGE A. GREISS, WILLIAM BH. Frey, and Messrs. W. Frep MoNROE, CHARLES BAuM, M.D., AUGUSTUS J. HERRLICH. Advisory members from the Augustana Synod: Revs. Dr. L. G. ABRAHAMSON, F. JACOB- son and Pror. C. W. Foss, PH.D. FOREIGN MISSION FIELDS 13 Ole Wark of the Serretaries HE administrative work of the Board has been divided into three parts and to each Secretary has been assigned a part, whose major duties are designated as follows: Rey. CHARLES L. Brown, D.D., Correspond- ing Secretary for Japan, Africa and South America, Mission Study, Out-going Mission- aries, Shipments of Goods, Slides and Lectures. Rev. Grorce Dracu, Corresponding Secre- tary for India, Patrons and Proteges, Literature and Librarian. Rey. L. B. Wor, D.D., Home Correspond- ence Secretary, Missionaries on Furlough, Field Secretaries, Campaigns and Candidates. The following is a summary of the statistics of our Missions: Mission- Native Chris- Fields. aries. Workers. tians. A. Gintur, jindia®: «3... 5.: 40 900 55,000 . Rajahmundry, India ... 30 650 27,000 Reon Jey pore, INdlae.. a... —_ 600 26,000 eet or ODM Stns. ee ers renee sr =e ovcoson® = ; Rare ricer VSONUOJPYYSONVIS! MANNA | NVAATW.L O14 NOISN3LX3 uo wna etl = ed ; Ps NYHTLS A Oo-r* 0 ° fo wars . Nvissny, ee luqdais (Qurawa fo on te \ cA [ Ww