The publication Lutheran Witness of March 17, 1964, page 15, says: “Research indicates . . . that it takes 27 years for the average member of our church body to help bring another person to Christ and membership in his Church. . . . During 1962, according to official statistics, 1741 of the 5500 parishes affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod did not gain a single adult by confirmation or confession of faith.”
The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom. January 15, 1965 p. 63
1964 LW-The Fruit of Our Lutheran Witness