# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S263
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 263

at the purchase of the automobiles be made possible

e@ refugee congregations are to contribute 4 of the total
rat is to say: 1,000 pounds equal to about $2,800 U.S.)
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and the National
Council each loan 1,000 pounds (a total of 2,000 pounds —
U.S.) without interest, the principal to be repaid by the
ations over a period of five years.”

‘Comment of the Board for European Affairs

Board has not been assigned the task of supervising the
England and for that reason has no jurisdiction at the
time over whatever actions are recommended by the
Survey Commission.

wwever, should recommendation No. 4 be carried out, namely,

“Ev. Lutheran Church of England form’ an Independent
an: Church of England in doctrinal fellowship with our
and assigned to the correspondence of the Board for
ean’ Affairs,” the honorable Synod may be assured that our
will take due cognizance of the recommendations of the
n' Survey Commission after due consideration has been
‘changes in the situation and carry out the recommenda-
‘the European Survey Commission or whatever recom-
ions Synod makes in this matter.

work of our Church in France and Alsace is represented
congregation in Paris, served by the Rev. Fred Kreiss;
‘station at Rouen, served by the Rev. Jean Bricka;
ation in Strasbourg, the Rev. S. Erik Peyser; congre-
Schillersdorf, Obersulzbach, Lembach, and Worth, served
A. F. Michalk; and congregations at Heiligenstein and
the Rev. G. Wolff. These five pastors serve a total of
egations and preaching stations with a total communi-~
bership of 346, constituting the Evangelical Lutheran
lurch of France, organized after the First World War.
Kreiss, Bricka, Peyser, and Wolff employ both French and
in their services. Pastor Michalk’s work is done exclu-

erman. Alsace; up to A. D. 1918, belonged to Germany,
work naturally was done in the German language. When
18 Alsace became French, the use of German naturally
continued, but French was also introduced and the
ecame bilingual. The fact that the German language is

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