| Mrs. L. C. Mellenbruck, member of a Joint Synod of Ohio congregation in San Juan,
Texas, began providing Sunday school materials to Mexican children who came to pick up
milk from the Mellenbruck farm in 1917. Later, during an epidemic among the Mexicans in
San Juan, Mellenbruck began to administer health care. Eventually she started conducting
Sunday school for the Mexican children on her back porch. This work developed into the
synod's Mexican Mission, Board of American Mission, the first significant Lutheran work
among Hispanics in Texas.
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