# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S416
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

416 MISSIONS

b, This board is to co-operate with, and carry on its work,
through the District Home Mission Boards.

c. This Board is to appoint a director of Missions among the
Blind and such other personnel as may become necessary and as
soon as feasible.

d. This commission: is to promote and augment the library for
' the blind; interest itself in, and, if possible, introduce, the use of
talking books and similar modern aids; provide more help and
equipment for transcribing books and pamphlets; publish a Lu-
theran magazine for blind people and for blind children; publish
literature for the blind also in Spanish and in German.

4. That more funds be made available for mission work among
the blind.

The proposal to establish a school for the blind was rejected.

‘Report of General Church Extension Board
(Memorial 403)

The General Church Extension Board has the duty of ad-
ministering Synod’s Church Extension Fund. Its functions are to
lend the money in this fund to the Districts of Synod in accordance
with their need, to safeguard these investments, and to seek the
return of the loans to Synod’s treasury. The Board has in the
three years that have passed since the last convention again striven
to conform its operations to the regulations imposed upon it by
Synod. Regular meetings have been held; all requests for loans
have been studied and given earnest consideration; many loans
were granted; some requests had to be refused for reasons that
seemed proper to the members of the Board; efforts were made
to collect the sums due; and everything possible was done in
order to cause the work of church extension to be what it is
designed to be, a helping hand to the various Districts in the
prosecution of their mission work.

In the year 1944 the Board Bave consideration to 16 requests
for loans. These requests had a total of $154,000. All but two
of these requests received favorable action, although not all of the
fourteen requests. were fulfilled in the exact amount of the request.
The total appropriated in this year was $97,000. :

In 1945, 25 applications with a total of $363,000 were studied
by the Board. This figure, and the following ones, will indicate
to the convention that the amounts requested in the individual
applications have become much higher in recent years, owing, of
course, to the rising costs of building. Of these 25 applications,
19 were granted, but not all in the amount requested, The total
of the loans approved in 1945 was $162,000.

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