# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S878
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878 . MISSIONS

The missionaries and their families are so closely knit together with
their parishioners in the midst of these surroundings that they
hardly consider to leave their post for a furlough unless they receive
the assurance that someone will take care of the spiritual needs
of the flocks which they would leave behind them.

We hope that the day is not far distant when our South
American fields not only can train a sufficient number of pastors
and teachers, but will also be able to take care of their financial
needs. Until this can be realized, the mother Church dare not
grow weary of helping to supply their needs. Let us commend our
South American Missions, the South American District Home Mis-
sion Boards, the missionaries, and the fellow Christians beneath
the Southern Cross to the gracious care of the Lord.

THE Board oF MissIons ror SOUTH AMERICA
Rev. Henry Buanxe, Chairman

Rev. C. F, LEHENBAUER, Secretary

Mr, E. T. Scuumm, Treasurer

Rev, Paut F. Harre

Rev. W. Rota

Mr. Ep. W. Tatcr

Mr. Otto Stemwarr

Dr. F. C. Srrevrert, Executive Secretary

Better Salaries and Aid to Purchase Automobiles
for Missionaries in South America
(Memorial 407)

It has been brought to our attention that not one of our pastors
in Brazil has the use of an automobile. In recent years highways
have been built, making it possible for some of our pastors to use
a car profitably in the performance of their work.

What the absence of a car means in the work of some of our
pastors may be illustrated by the following example: A pastor
is serving four scattered congregations, one of them 150 miles
distant from his home church, To serve this congregation, the
pastor must spend two and a half days on a train, a truck, and
finally on horseback to reach his destination. A good highway
connects the two places, and with a car the trip could be made in
four hours. To us this appears to be an inexcusable waste of
precious time and a wasteful manner of carrying on mission work
in a field where our pastors are often overworked with the care
of numerous congregations.

Many of our pastors in Brazil are making great sacrifices.
Many of them are living in rather primitive circumstances. Almost
none of them owns even a washing machine. Is it Christian and