# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S962
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 8381

General Church Extension Board to grant $6,000 to the South-
eastern District from the Wartime Missions and Conservation
Fund. ,

Such appropriations for buildings from the Wartime Mis-
sions and Conservation Fund are made on the following con-
ditions: ,

“a) Appropriations from the Wartime Missions and Con-
servation Fund shall be reviewed with such congrega-
tions and District Mission Boards after a period of ten
years for the purpose of determining a repayment policy
for such congregations with power in said General
Church Extension Board to compromise or write off
such appropriations if at said time conditions in any
such congregations so dictate.

“b) Disposition of any such moneys repaid on appropria-
tions from the Wartime Missions and Conservation
Fund shall be the responsibility of the Board of Direc-
tors of Synod.”

That our Mission Boards and the Emergency Planning
Council have not permitted the wartime emergency to stampede
them into spending moneys to begin projects which in a few

years will become ghosts, is evidenced by the
Permanency fact that 50 per cent of the moneys allocated
from the Wartime Missions and Conservation
Fund in 1943 have been taken over by the Districts in 1944 as
permanent work. This does not mean, however, that only such
places as have a definite promise of permanency are considered
as fields of work. We endeavor to follow our members wherever
they go. We adjust our plans to the nature of the locality,
whether it be. permanent or whether it be of a very temporary
nature, as far as that is possible.
Manpo wer At the present time we coulé place a large
Shortage number of men into war-pro uction areas. But
the men are not available. Sometimes it takes six
to eight months before a missionary is secured for a place that
cries for immediate attention. In a few instances we -have been
able to secure trained women — but in all too few.

The tremendous upheaval and the trek of 100,000 people
coming from all sections of the United States and squatting down
in an area of ten to fifteen square miles present an unprecedented
mission opportunity to the Church. Thus the work of evangelism

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