# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S415
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 415

Secretary who, with the Lutheran Medical Mission Association,
will perform the following functions:

1. Survey and evaluate our medical mission projects from
(a) the standpoint of the church; (b) the standpoint of medicine.

2. Survey and evaluate the resources of our church as far as
doctors, nurses, and allied medical workers are concerned, and
organize them as a supporting and recruiting group.

3. Keep the church informed on the progress and expanding
needs of our medical mission work.

4, Integrate the work of our medical missions and the LMMA
with that of Synod through its various mission boards.

a. Assist and guide the various mission boards in conducting
medical mission work.

b. Recruit, interview, and approve medical personnel before
appointment by the mission board involved. The appointment of
medical personnel or the acquisition of medical equipment and/or
properties will be made only after the advice and approval of the
Medical Adviser and/or Executive Secretary.

c. Assist and guide in training medical personnel by special
grants or scholarships.

d. Advise and guide missionaries and boards in regard to
health problems and arrange for physical examinations.

e. Advise on all budgetary expenditures for medical mission
work.

f, In consultation with the boards conducting medical mission
work, supervise the expenditure of special funds raised for medical
mission work. It is understood that especially in e and f the final
action on capital investments and/or projects which would increase
current budgetary operating costs should rest with the mission
boards conducting medical mission work.

g. Offer suggestions and recommendations regarding the con-
duct and expansion of medical mission work.

h. Offer advice to various agencies within the church, e. g., the
Lutheran Laymen’s League, the Lutheran Women’s Missionary
League, the Wheat Ridge Foundation of the Walther League, and
other church-related organizations, with reference to medical mis-
sion projects.

i. Develop and maintain contact with the members of the
church at large, but specifically with the members of the medical
profession, in order to further interest and activity in the medical
mission program of our church.

j. Annually submit a budget for the office of Executive Secre-