# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S671
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 671

aey. make arrangements to spread the total expense of delegates
fand. additional costs of the convention over a three-year period
id to place the same into the regular budget of the respective

A. H. WErRFELMANN

ACTION Bernarp H. HEMMETER

Synod resolved that synodical Districts should devise some

quitable method of defraying the expenses of the advisory
members.

Report of Committee on Church Architecture

Church Building Activities
(Unprinted Memorial 53)

During the war years and since V-E Day church building has
‘been at a standstill. The same was true of the Depression years.
s a result of almost two decades of inactivity in the field of
construction, it is safe to assume that almost one thousand con-
gregations are anxious to build a new church or school or to
m;enlarge or modernize existing ones. ;

Although the cost of building has increased to about $1 to $1.30
mper cubic foot in the Atlantic States, and to about $.90 to $1.10 in
certain inland States, yet many congregations have been making
inquiries. At $1 or more per cubic foot, few can build.
Correspondence in regard to building was fairly heavy even
during the Depression. Since the end of the war this correspond-
ence has been exceptionally heavy. Congregations are asking
continually the cost of building and the possible time when building
operations will be resumed. Large numbers of drawings have been
sent in for review.

The volume of correspondence is really too much for one
" person to handle. During this time, when demands are great, it
“ would simplify matters were such things as the choice of a building
site or the interior painting of an existing church or repairs to
churches and schools to be determined locally by the congregations
and their officers. Obviously no one is able at a distance of 500
> or 1,000 miles to express an opinion upon, for example, the relative
importance of two building sites. Your secretary because of the
_ housing shortage has been working at a serious disadvantage in
a very small, crowded room, without space for vertical files and
essential reference materials.

Attention will be called by others to the fact that your Com-
mittee has not met during the past six years. These have been
years of war and postwar conditions, and suggestions for such
a meeting have met with no results,