# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S243
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 243

sgh these conferences Synod’s Home Mission Board en-
g achieve greater co-ordination and integration. They
to encourage our District mission boards to move for-
h an aggressive Home Mission program in their respec-

trict Visitations

Synod has asked our Board to keep in close touch with
evelopments in the various Districts (see Handbook,
oard has developed a program of District visitations
we try to keep in touch with the mission develop-
various Districts, gather and disseminate information,
yur resources at the service of the Districts. In these
synod’s Home Mission Board is usually represented by
‘From three to five days are spent in the District with
on-board or its representatives, visiting some of their
ations and prospective fields. A meeting with the District
is also part of the visitation. Up to this time we have
én Districts. Since we do not have a full complement
a ers, we have not been able to visit as many Districts

e we do not want to give the impression that this
nture, for we know that Dr. Streufert has long carried
x similar visits, we want to say that they certainly serve
isa better picture of the mission problems and opportunities
in our Church. It is also of great value to meet the
Snally. The meeting with the District Mission Board,
4 important part of every visitation, enables us to dis-
§ phases of Home Mission activity as it relates to that

Evangelism .
oard for Home Missions has also served as the Evan-
iment of our Synod. By evangelism we understand
‘by which either the individual Christian or the local
i sends out the evangel, the good news of a Redeemer,
‘Then to accept Christ. Toward that end our Board
“Each One Reach One” movement, we sponsored
on of vacation Bible schools, and we issued the journal
was directed particularly to the clergy of our Church
courage them to greater evangelistic activity.

ev: H. W. Gockel received a leave of absence from our
‘October, 1951, in order to work with Synod’s television
ur Board decided to suspend publication of Today tem-