# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S845
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MISSIONS 341

Unification of Our Spanish Missions in Extraterritorial Areas.—
At present we are conducting Spanish missions outside of the
synodical Districts. Such missions are conducted in Mexico by
the Texas District, in Cuba and the Isle of Pines by the Southern
District, in Panama by the Army and Navy Commission. The
mission in Guatemala is as yet not assigned to any synodical
District. It is still under the jurisdiction and guidance of the Board
of Home Missions. There are some indications that we will be
called upon to go to the Dominican Republic and also to Honduras
and to other Central American countries,

All missions among Spanish-speaking people have many things
in common. The problems confronting the missionaries in the
various Spanish-speaking fields and the solution of such problems
are much alike.

- ‘The laws of the various Latin American countries in reference
to the permanent placing of missionaries and church workers into
these countries demand careful study and consideration.

Uniform policies governing the conduet of these missions, gov-
erning the erection of chapels and other suitable places of worship,
of schools, and of parsonages ought to be agreed upon.

From the very outset it ought to be our aim to establish an
indigenous Church which is self-governing, self-propagating, and
eventually self-sustaining.

In view of these facts it is suggested:

To place all Spanish-speaking missions now conducted by
. District Home Mission Boards, the missions in Mexico, in Cuba,
the Isle of Pines, in Panama, in the West Indies at large, and such
Spanish-speaking missions as might in future be established
in extraterritorial areas under the guidance of the Board of Home
Missions of North America;

That said Board of Home Missions appoint a committee on
Spanish Missions from their midst to guide these extraterritorial
Spanish missions;

That this committee on Spanish Missions in extraterritorial
fields be responsible to the Board of Home Missions;

That the Board of Home Missions may augment this com-
mittee on Spanish Missions by choosing advisory members or con-
sultants from the ranks of the extraterritorial Spanish Missions;

That Spanish Missions within the synodical Districts in North
and South America be under the guidance and direction of these
District Mission Boards.

Spanish Bible Versions and Production of Uniform Transla-

tions of Spanish Lutheran Literature. —The Saginaw convention
advised the Board of Home Missions and the Board of South Amer-

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