# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S279
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MISSIONS 279

4herefore, recommend that no resident representative of
nod be sent to Europe.”

: 1. Your Board is cognizant of the difficulties which
iblishment of the office of resident commissioner in Europe

.and, in general, is in agreement with the argumentation
ropean Survey Commission.

ever, this recommendation does not exclude the estab-
of the office of executive secretary for the Board for
‘Affairs, which our Board considers necessary and essen-
E-the effective prosecution of the work assigned to it by Synod.

s the opinion of the Commission that these meetings should
ed, but that with the improvement of the economic sit-
rticularly in western Germany, the persons who attend

Lutheran World Federation

Commission met with the late Dr. S. C. Michelfelder, then
re Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, and two

sin its membership virtually all the Lutherans in the world
jose affiliated with our Synod.

¢: Lutheran World Federation engaged in organized relief
ig refugees both in Europe and in Arab countries. With

s.at Geneva, Switzerland, it was able, with the assistance
overnment representatives, to act as trustees for church

and institutions which came into jeopardy as a result of

Such areas of the Church as had been most severely

ar. The result has been that it has become recognized
and charitable agency through which even secular
3, Such as the United Nations, have distributed re-
ty refugees, as, for instance, among the Arabs in the
Kingdom of Jordan. They have also been able to lend
aand by way of providing churches and chapels where
ed. The Commission visited one such chapel in an area