# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S427
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MISSIONS 427

Resolved,

1. That we commend our Board for Negro Missions for their
direction and guidance in carrying on the work of missions among
ithe Negroes;

' 2. That we commend our workers and their helpers at home
nd abroad for their intense zeal and diligence in caring for souls
on and searching for souls unwon;

-:. -8, That we pray the Lord of the Church to grant His blessings
;upon this work as it continues and that He give a special measure
of strength and courage to the diligent workers in the African field;

4, That we encourage the individual Districts to explore their
fegro concentrations with the view to establishing new areas of
york, since actual surveys have revealed large areas densely
mpopulated by unchurched Negroes whose souls will be eternally
doomed unless they, too, be given opportunity to hear and believe
sthe saving Gospel of Christ.

Norge. — As to the request regarding Visual Aids, ef. action taken on
é Memorial 1001 on recommendation of Committee 14.

Report of the Board for Missions in North
and South America

(Memorial 402)
Cost of these missions in the past triennium:
1947 2. S582, 491.62 1948 __....... $548,480.62
aeceececceceesnencosenen $550,915.00

For the first time in the history of our Church a joint report
m the mission activities in the three Americas (North, Central,
and South) is being submitted. Until the Twenty-fifth Delegate
Yonvention, which was held in Chicago in 1947, home missions
‘North America were supervised by the Board of Home Missions
North America, the missions in South America by the Board
f Missions for South America, and missions in extraterritorial
égions were in charge of four different District Mission Boards.
the 1947 convention, however, all these missions were placed
der the jurisdiction of one Board, which was then called the
joard for Missions in North and South America.

With few exceptions, your Board for Missions in North and
uth America met monthly during the past triennium. As may
E De expected, the programs for these meetings were well diversified
Pe covering, as they did, the problem of our Mission. Boards
p. throughout the Western Hemisphere — and at times necessitated
rning, afternoon, and evening sessions,

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