# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1100
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MISSIONS 409

Conference and our missionaries for the aggressive
they have given to this work; and be it finally

his visitation of our missions in Africa.

port of the Board for European Affairs
(Memorial 407)

Board for European Affairs desires to submit to you

: owing report of its activities in the past triennium. The

Mea feels that the best way in which this can be done is to

the report of the European Survey Commission, appointed
-yant to a resolution of Synod convened in Milwaukee, together
Par the comments of our Board on the action taken by us to
‘Jement the recommendations of the European Survey Com-
nigsion or stating the reasons for the delay or non-compliance.

The report of the Survey Commission reads as follows:

“Report of European Survey Commission

_ “Submitted to:
The Praesidium;
The Board for European Affairs;
The Board of Directors of
The Honorable Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

“In the name of the Holy Trinity, Greetings: ;

“Pursuant to a resolution of Synod convened in Milwaukee
(cf. Proceedings, Forty-First Convention, A.D. 1950, page 449),
the undersigned, appointed by the Praesidium and the Board for
European Affairs to serve as a Survey Committee, submit the
following report and recommendations concerning the work of
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in Europe:

I. Introductory

“The Committee engaged the services of the Rev. Richard
Wukasch, who, in the service of the World Council of Churches,
had spent a year in Europe to gather data concerning the political,
economic, cultural, and specifically religious life of the countries
which were to be visited, as well as the names of important per-
sonages who were serving as leaders in Christian movements in .
the respective countries.

“This was done so that each member of the Commission might
have some reasonably helpful overview of the total background
against which to discuss local situations upon reaching foreign soil
and to aid in evaluating facts as they presented themselves. —
An itinerary and a calendar of appointments were carefully