# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S390
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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estate in Rio de Janeiro for the new preparatory school. Similarly nece
the property for the new Seminary in Porto Alegre has been reqt
purchased by authorization of the Board of Directors. The com- the
mittee appointed to recommend property in Sao Paulo for the at tk
teachers college is not ready as yet to make its recommendation.
A further phase of this reorganization program is the need |
for professors. Synod will want to create the needed professorships i
to implement this program.
Some of the professors in Porto Alegre have been teaching in
each of the divisions of the school. Under the reorganization plan
each division will have to have its own faculty.
Synod therefore is requested to create one new professorship
for the theological department; to create a new professorship follc
(director) for the present preparatory school in Porto Alegre
(this professorship would be designated for modern languages);
to create two professorships for the pedagogical department. These
professorships will have to be filled by nationals from the ranks
of our Brazilian teachers so as to comply with Brazilian law. and
These professorships will constitute the nucleus of the pedagogical
faculty in Sao Paulo; to create three new professorships for the be e
new preparatory school in Rio de Janeiro, one of these professor-
ships to be filled by the director of the school. Synod is further com:
asked to elect Boards of Control for the new Seminary in Porto appr
Alegre and for the new preparatory school in Rio de Janeiro. ' addi
It is finally requested that the property in Baixo Guandu revert
back to the Brazil District with instructions to transfer ownership and
to the conference of Minas-Espirito Santo, from whom most of the
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funds for its development have come. It will be used for their of p
local parochial school purposes. ;
Self-support has been pushed by District leaders and the
Mission Board in spite of the heavy work load of the pastors and 8 10C
in spite of the economic difficulties created by the unstable ers
i currency of the land. acer
HM Dr. Schelp, having almost completed his work on the Portu- |
- guese Bible, has returned to his classroom at the Seminary. cont!

i Through him our church has been privileged to make a District

il contribution to the cause of evangelical Christianity in Brazil.

Dr. Rehfeldt is beginning his 37th year of service at the Seminary. syste

During the triennium the laundry facilities at the Seminary have scho:

been modernized and a new professor’s dwelling provided on

the campus. . auth
Reorganization will require the erection of buildings in the | gani

next triennium. The Rio de Janeiro property already contains the Braz