# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S442
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442 MISSIONS

ACTION

Upon recommendation of Committee 11, Synod adopted.

following resolution:
Resolution 1

Resolved, To refer this entire matter to the General Churéy
Extension Board, to the President of the Northern Nebraska Dig:
trict (Rev. W. E. Homann), and to Grace Congregation, Norfolk
Nebr., for a restudy and final adjudication. ‘

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Report of the Board for Missions in Europe *
(Memorial 406) , 4

Your Board has now served two consecutive terms of three’
years each with the same personnel, namely, the Rev. August F.,
Bobzin, chairman; the Rev. Paul G. Sander, secretary; the Rev
Louis T. Buchheimer; Mr. Fred A. Schurmann, treasurer; and
Mr. Herbert Thien. Two Board members have in the past trienniyf
been able to visit the field in Europe and so have gained a person}
insight of the work there, the Rev. Louis T. Buchheimer during a
summer of 1949 and Mr. Fred A. Schurmann during the sp:
of 1949. Mr. Schurmann made the trip at no expense to the Boar di
Until the European representative of the Board, .the Rev. Walt
C. Daib, accepted a call as pastor of a congregation in the spri
of 1949, he made two further trips of longer duration in 19
and 1948. In the summer of 1949 he was granted a leave of absen
from his congregation for the purpose of further consultation vy with,
the Lutheran Free Churches in Europe. He is now serving 4
Board in a consultative capacity.

While conditions in Europe have been stabilized to so bs
extent, they have not yet been returned to normal. Any prograt
adopted must of necessity be subject to modification or expansio
Your Board believes that it should present for your guidand
information, and possible adoption the following long-range pre O=
gram for work in the European mission field.

A. Belgium 6

Until March of this year we had but one congregation: in
Belgium (Antwerp). This congregation consisted of 41 . soulsg
32 communicants. During the past two years there has bee en
a constant, if small, gain in numbers, and we believe that:
.ean look forward to further growth.
In March of this year a new mission was opened in Brussé¢
where Pastor Hobus has taken over the work of establishing a i
theran church in the French-speaking sector of Belgium.

The Belgian field, both in its Flemish and French sectior a