# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1326
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 857

Because Emergency Planning Council’s relief work had gained
F such proportions during the last triennium, and because many
, contacts with European church officials could be made more readily
through a representative of our Church on hand abroad, Dr. H.

4 J Harms was appointed in the early months of 1949 by Dr. J. W.
m= Behnken as the Missouri Synod’s representative abroad. - While

q F visiting the leaders and Officials of the Free Church, Landeskirche,

between “Missouri” and the Confessional Church in Germany. His
sincere, orthodox, and Christian spirit influenced all whom
Dr. Harms visited abroad.

Special Thanks

clothing, shoes, toys for children, its hundreds of layettes, and
medicine kits, its heroic accomplishments in the orphanage program;
to our fellow Lutherans in Canada, South America, Finland, Poland,
China, Norway, Sweden, France, England. To all these we owe
thanks for their encouraging co-operation.

To the executive members of the Emergency Planning Council,
who for many. years, especially the last three years, have so gener-
ously given of their time, energy, and thought — Dr, L. J. Sieck,
chairman, Dr. J. H.C. Fritz, Dr. J. W. Behnken, Dr. F.C. Streufert,
Dr. L. Meyer, Dr. R. Caemmerer, Rev. A. Doerffler; to the members
. Of the Board for European Missions for their wholehearted co-

~ operation and co-ordination; to our staff of office workers, who,

although working with a minimum of personnel, maintained a well-
functioning program; to all of these the Church owes thanks.

in the interest of the Emergency Planning Council, we owe thanks.