# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S657
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 657

Relief Expenditures $4,155,030.35
During the past triennium there were allocated for the purpose
of relief, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and mission expansion
Fa total of $4,155,030.35.
a The above amount comprises expenditures out of Relief funds
E for Europe and Asia of $2,492,,979.05, and out of the Peace Thank-
: offering, $1,662,051.380. It represents actual cash transactions super-
f vised and approved by the synodical Board of Directors.
; It is impossible to give an exact figure of the over-all totals
’ expended by individual congregations, organizations within con-
: gregations, and individual members of our churches who made
| their contributions in the form of direct gifts to organizations or
; individual families in need in war-torn areas. A conservative
* estimate of these contributions in cash and kind during the past
f war years easily totals more than $25,000,000.
% This twenty-five-million figure does not include contributions
4 made by our people and congregations to CROP (Christian Rural
;. Overseas Program), to which organization some $100,000 worth
4 of products have been given.

Other Agencies

These activities of relief, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and
. mission expansion were channeled to countries in Europe such
* as Germany (including the Russian Zone), Austria, Greece, Italy,
y Finland, France, Yugoslavia; in Asia countries as China, Japan,
¢ Korea, Pakistan, Okinawa, Palestine, the Philippines. Further-
more, the millions of pounds of food and clothing and the millions
; of dollars expended by the Emergency Planning Council’s vast
relief program were channeled through a number of agencies,
notably, Church World Service, National Lutheran Council, Lu-
theran World Relief, Church Relief Agencies in Germany, Red
Cross, American Bible Society, Swedish Relief.

Emergency Planning Council Activities

The origin of the Emergency Planning Council goes back to
1942, when war workers, shifting populations, P.O. W.’s and urgent
postwar plannings presented immediate problems to our Synod.
Since that time the Emergency Planning Council, with the aid of
fF. our consecrated people, has written many notable chapters into
the annals of time, has accomplished that which at first was thought
not accomplishable, and has expedited an enviable relief program.
Since the scope of this report is to deal only with the past
triennium of Synod, 1947-1950, we shall confine the following
; Pages primarily to those relief activities which transpired since
: the Centennial Convention in 1947, when a $2,500,000 collection was
, voted for the cause of world relief.