# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S604
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

604 FINANCIAL MATTERS

dollars for non~budgetary items within and without Synod — which
in no wise have strained the giving ability of our people; and

19. Wuereas, These funds made it possible for our Church to
appropriate larger sums for urgent mission and educational projects
in the fields of Home Missions—in North and South America,
Central America, Mexico, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China,
India, Africa, and Europe; and

20. Wuereas, These gifts over and above the regular budget of
our people in these postwar years have made possible an unprece-
dented expansion in our missionary and educational endeavors
throughout the world and have given our Kingdom work a greater
impetus and forward movement than has been attained at any
other time in the history of our Church; and

21. WHEREAS, God continues to show us needs and wide-open
and compelling opportunities in our work of missions and educa-
tion throughout the world, which, if not met, will slow down,
hamper, and in some instances bring to a standstill the impetus of
our work and prevent adequate planning and preparation for the
future of which our people must be told; and

22. WHEREAS, There is at present an ever growing consciousness
of the missionary imperative in the hearts of our people; and

23. WHEREAS, An ever increasing number of our laity is ex-
pecting the Church to present to it a program of Kingdom work
commensurate with the spiritual and material gifts which the Lord
has showered upon The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and
is eagerly willing to participate in an expansion program; and

24, WuereEas, We have tangible proof that God is showering an
ever greater measure of the grace of giving upon our people; and

25. WHEREAS, We have the evidence of the past four years that
our people are willing to give larger sums for the spiritual and
physical succor of their fellow men if apprised of the need; and

26. Wuereas, God expects the Church to bring the needs of the
Kingdom to those people who receive from Him the spiritual and
material resources to meet those needs; and

27. WHEREAS, Our mission and education boards and commis-
sions have projected a program of Kingdom work over and above
a normal budgetary increase of approximately ten per cent per
annum, which calls for an expenditure of millions of dollars in the
next years; therefore be it

28. Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, in
convention assembled in Milwaukee, 1950, instruct the Board of
Directors to inaugurate a