# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S879
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MISSIONS 879

charitable to expect these pastors and their families to live and
labor amid conditions which could be improved by paying them
a better salary and supplying such men with cars as are in a posi-
‘tion to use them?

Let us consider another angle. Since our Synod began work
in Brazil, many pastors from the United States have been sent to
Brazil. Today only a handful are still in the Brazilian field. Why
have so many returned to the United States? <A careful investiga-
tion will, we believe, show that in a number of instances it was due
chiefly to the extreme hardships under which such men had to do
their work. If in the future we expect to keep such men in the
field, we ought to lighten their burden and make their life more
pleasant.

We, therefore, petition the Convention to investigate this prob-
lem and, if possible, raise the salaries of our pastors and teachers
in South America. We also plead that some provision be made to
assist our South American brethren in the purchase and operation

of automobiles. PastoraL CoNFERENCE OF THE ALGONA CiRcUIT

- Iowa District West
Ferprmvanp Reta, Secretary

ACTION

With reference to these memorials Synod adopted the reso-
lutions brought in by Committee 2:

A. Your Committee on Missions has devoted much time to a
thorough study of the salary and automobile situation in South
America and, after a thorough investigation in the presence of the
Board and the Presidents of the two Districts involved, feels per-
fectly satisfied that the Boards in both North and South America,
‘in co-operation with the two District Presidents, have done their
utmost in adjusting salaries in a proper Christian and sympathetic
manner, and we heartily commend the efforts of these brethren.
Your Committee expresses sincere regrets that now and then com-
plaints have been made and dissatisfactions aroused in conferences
and congregations owing to misunderstanding or lack of consulta-
tion with the proper officials and Board.

B. In regard to the automobile question, we are informed that
the Board has provided assistance wherever that was possible in
the past and that the problem is not so much a matter of finance
as of inability to get the necessary cars. We recommend that the
Board intensify its efforts to assist missionaries in providing trans-
portation facilities, such as automobiles, jeeps, motorcycles, etc.,
for the missionaries wherever their lack would seriously retard
the work of our missionaries in South America.