# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S869
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MISSIONS 369

and personalized information from the foreign fields to stimulate
greater interest and zeal in the work; and

Inasmuch as it appears that the past system of controlling and
managing our foreign work from headquarters far removed from
the fields of labor has been time-delaying, cumbersome, and sup~-
pressive of initiative; and inasmuch as it seems reasonable to
believe that the brethren on the field are better able, by reason
of experience and position, to decide many details and expedite
their execution; and *

Inasmuch as economic insecurity is a deterrent factor in any
enterprise; and inasmuch as the education and training of the
children of foreign missionaries under the abnormal conditions im-
posed upon them by virtue of their calling is a very expensive item
during their years of adolescence; therefore

We petition the honorable Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Mis-
souri, Ohio, and Other States:

4. To make provision for more adequate dissemination of in-
formation, including a Foreign Mission magazine, that our people
might become better acquainted and more interested in our Foreign
Missions;

2. To direct the Board of Foreign Missions to restudy the work
in consultation with as many present and former missionaries as
possible;

3. To adopt a new policy of operation, whereby more authority
can be placed on the field either in a resident secretary or super-
intendent or in a committee or in the missionaries collectively;

4, To readjust the salary scale and especially make adequate
provision for the education and training of missionaries’ children
during adolescent years.

Tre EASTERN CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DiSTRICT
Tue Rev. BE, H. BEHRENS, Chairman
Tue Rev. P. J. LINDENMEYER, Secretary

This memorial was also sent in by
Tae LAKE Erte CONFERENCE oF THE ENGLISH DisTRICT
R. OEHLSCHLAEGER, Chairman
G. W. Mever, Secretary
and by
Tue SOUTHWESTERN CoNFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DisTRICT

Tye Rev. W. G. SCHWEHN, Chairman
Tue Rev. M. J. TASSLER, Secretary

The Southwestern Conference memorial added: 5. To request
that the Board for South American Missions be asked to contribute
to Foreign Mission publicity.

Proceedings, 1947 ; 24