# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S681
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

‘ MISSIONS 97

ding of a native Church, no matter in which community this
be, let us from the very beginning include the thought of
ding an indigenous, self-governing Church. In building an
nous Church, the growing mission will be permitted to do
th things as their Christian knowledge enables them to do in
fer to promote the cause in their midst and to solve ‘problems
om time to time they may arise. We will then not feel con-
ned to do all the thinking for them, and we need not help
e all their problems. As the missions grow in Christian knowl-
ge and understanding, a greater measure of authority with cor-
ponding responsibilities can be placed on them.
F.(,. Resident Advisers.— As the work grows and a number of
mis ionaries and mission stations in any given area increases, the
¢ eation of the office of resident advisers in territories where our
hurches in foreign lands have not as yet organized into synodical
es, ought to receive serious consideration. Already in. 1932,
1935, in 1938, and again in 1941 this matter was discussed at
* The report of Executive Secretary O.H. Schmidt, who
visited the foreign mission fields in China and in India, will no
oubt also touch upon this important matter.
_.. And as we are planning for new fields in foreign lands, one of
e staff of instructors sent ought to be designated the resident
viser. The resident adviser is to be the intermediary between
Mission Board, the missions, the missionary, the theological
ool. As the number of missions increases, he is to be the
supervisor of all mission activities, of all mission properties. He is
) be the spiritual adviser of the missionaries and instructors, the
isitor, with all the dyties usually placed upon a Visitor. .

As soon as it is feasible, the resident adviser might consider
surrounding himself with a missionary council and draw in the
ative missionaries and native lay Christians.

Be it suggested that pertinent resolutions cover above sug-
gestions.

_ Christian day schools shall be opened, wherever possible, not
only as a missionary measure, but also because the day schools
Rare the best-known “feeder” for the theological school.

Translation of Theological Literature. If our missions in the
respective country shall grow, pastors as well as the laity must
be provided ‘with theological literature in the language which
they can read and understand. The Board of Home Missions
‘acting jointly with the Board of South American Missions has
already appointed a pastor to translate theological literature into
the Spanish language. He is expected to live at St. Louis and will
also assist in the Spanish Lutheran Hour.

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