# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S272
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

272 MISSIONS

Comment: Recommendation No.3 has not been carried.
because of the fact that political uncertainty in Berlin is still,
such a nature that it was thought unwise to make the shift
at the present time. It might be added that, in order to safeg
Synod’s investment, the Board of Directors purchased the
on which our buildings at Oberursel stand for $12,000 and that.
purchase was carried out by the Board of Directors and the
is now owned in the name of The Lutheran Church — Missoi

ynod,

“4. That the preparatory school in Gross Oesingen be d

tinued and the preparatory course be connected with the se
whereby the cost of maintenance and the salary of one teac
will be saved.”
Comment: This recommendation has been carried out, a
preparatory department is now amalgamated with the sen
at Oberursel. ‘
“5 That the congregations of the Free Churches, together.
their pastors, be encouraged to unfold an aggressive missiof
activity among the many neglected people who have turned :
backs upon the Church and to grow in ‘volksmissionarige
activity; 7
“8 That the congregations be encouraged in an incre
manner to assume the financial responsibilities for their
program of work at the earliest possible date and to tha
introduce an extended stewardship program and with it a,
oughgoing accounting system of contributions and expendi
“7, That pastors of the Free Churches be encouraged to
in closest possible contact with pastors and theological prof
of the ‘Landeskirche’ with a view to strengthening orthodo
theranism in that Church; ;
“3 ‘That at such or similar conferences they also frankly d
the mission problem ‘volksmissionarische Taetigkeit’ with a
to reaching an understanding that people who may nominall
belong to a Landeskirche but are not attending are rightful}
be considered mission material also for the Free Churches.”
Comment: Recommendations No.5, 6, 7, and 8 have no
carried out to any extent, due mainly to the fact that the
has not had the personnel available to implement these -
mendations. It would mean placing a man in Europe wha,
by consultation at the grass-roots level be able to carry ©
work necessary in order to make the desired progress in agg
missionary activity, in financial responsibility, in theologies
tact, and in a growth of mutual understanding in the field
sionary activity.
“DL. East Zone Problems.
“The Free Churches operating in the East Zone find:
selves behind the Iron Curtain and under the domini
Communistic form of government. The members and pa