# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S253
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 253

Mueller edition) has been placed on the market in
e translation of “The Formula of Concord” will soon
. The Portuguese translation of Christian Dogmatics
printed in Porto Alegre.

: The Lutheran Hour

y, contacts through the Lutheran Hour demand the
of large quantities of tracts and other types of Chris-
ture, particularly also Sunday school lessons. Much of
is sent gratis.

Boarp For Missions in NortH anp SouTH AMERICA
F. C. STREUFERT, Executive Secretary

FER +

“Present Board of Missions for North and
“America and Set Up Two Separate Boards

a
The rapid expansion of missions in the United States

demands all the time and attention of a special mission

. The tremendous scope of Latin American missions
ires all the attention and study that a special mission
d devote to it; and

, It seems to be poor stewardship of men, time, and
ave a'single mission board of thirteen. men in charge
ng in the same sessions on, all missions in the Western

“Many difficulties faced by our Latin American
at least partly due to lack of information between
elds ‘and the Mother Church, and hence also due to

Latin American work is actually foreign -mission
gn languages and countries; and

Synod requires that the fields of China and India
ted: on:the Board for Foreign Missions by at least one
sperience in each field; and

The present Board of Missions in North and South
tho :representative whatever with personal experience
“#merican field; we therefore

Synod

lish the Board of Missions in North and South Amer-
bresé nt form;

‘up two’ separate mission boards, namely, a Board for
North America in charge of missions north of the U.S.