# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S761
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CONVENTION MINUTES 761

e congregations and pastors listed on pages 45 and 46 of
day’s Business” were received into the. membership of the
icts through which they were proposed. The revised con-
Bintions of South Shore Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wis., and
Sith Lutheran Church, Fair Oaks, Calif., were ratified.

® Adjournment with the table prayer.

Session 3
June 18, P.M.

The opening devotional exercises of the third session were
ponducted by the Rev. Henry G. Hartner, President of the Colorado
istrict. The minutes were read and adopted with the correction
$80.00 for $90.00 on page 4, fourth line from the bottom.
. After hearing a survey of mission work in Latin America
t by the Rev. H. A. Mayer and a further account of the gratifying
Fprogress in Argentina with its extension to Chile from President
PS. H. Beckmann, Synod authorized two professorships at the
; seminary in Buenos Aires as well as the appointment of necessary
f instructors, and empowered the brethren in Argentina to provide
; necessary classroom space at a cost of $1,000 to $1,500. The Board
of Directors was empowered to provide a wing, additional dormi-
‘ tory and classroom space, and professors’ residences at the sem-
§ inary in Buenos Aires. Cost of a motorized lawn mower is to be
E included in the regular budget of the seminary. The Argentina
; District was instructed to study the possibility of beginning mission
F work in Chile and to enter the field when the time appeared right.
_ The members of this District were commended for their enthusiasm
in expanding the work.
} After hearing an account of the thrilling expansion of mission
+ work in Brazil from Dr. Rodolfo Hasse, Synod authorized the
separation of seminary training from preparatory education. The
: details of this program regarding curriculum, safeguarding Synod’s
- interests, building costs for the next five years, additional profes-
sors, manner and time of reorganization, tuition, as well as other
details are to be studied by the Board for Higher Education of
the Brazil District and submitted to the Board for Missions in
North and South America. This: Board’ shall, in consultation with
the Board for Higher Education, make definite recommendations
to the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is empowered
to execute these plans. For the present, temporary instructors
shall be appointed at the seminary in Porto Alegre and temporary
housing provided for the students.’ Synod encouraged the brethren
in Brazil, after consulting the Board for Missions, to explore and
develop the mission opportunities in beaming the Lutheran Hour