# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S452
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

452 MISSIONS

Resolution 10 3
Committee 2, which also considered Unprinted Memorial’
recommends that the Board for European Affairs, in conne
with the. Advisory Council for European Affairs, give the ma
concerning the request of our brethren in Finland, presen
Memorial 407, further study. If, after they have received”
information available, they are convinced the requested help shot
be granted, it is recommended that they present the need 6.4
‘Board of Directors of Synod for review and action. i

ACTION
Synod adopted this recommendation.

Report of the Armed Services Commission 4
(Memorial 408)

mission goes on. , ad

During the war years, Pastor Paul Mehl was the Execut
Secretary of the Commission. In the spring of 1948 he accept
a call into the parish ministry. Chaplain Kenneth L. Ahl
appointed to succeed him.

In May of 1948 we moved our office from Chicago to. W.
ton. We have office space in the Lutheran Church Center,
is owned by the National Lutheran Council and is located 1s
off Pennsylvania Avenue, within the shadow of the White i
Since much of the Commission’s business has to do with
Defense Agencies, it makes for efficiency to have our office locg
in the nation’s capital.

The Commission functioned prior to the war, and it is rat

self-evident that it should continue to function. An added funeti
since the close of the war is the rendering of spiritual serv «:
ex-servicemen and servicewomen in the 136 Veterans Administ
tion Hospitals in our country. Since veterans hospitalization
at the peak load of World War I, this phase of our endeav
increase considerably in the next twenty years.

Scope of Program

The scope of the program is as large as ever, the diff ‘ei
being that the number of people in the military is not as |
as during the war. The Commission continues to serve .agy{%
endorsing agency for the Church, Chaplains in the Army,:
Air Force, and Veterans Administration must be endorsed to ¢€
and to remain in the service. Our chaplains are required to-subt
monthly reports to the Commission. The names of service
sonnel and patients in our Veterans Administration Hospita’