# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S416
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416 MISSIONS
tary to the Board of Directors of S
reference to the Fiscal Conference.

Between meetings of the LMMA, the Executive Committee and
the Executive Secretary shall carry on these functions.

ynod for recommendation and

The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee shall consist of the elected officers
of the Lutheran Medical Mission Association.

The Executive Secretary

Upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee and of
the respective mission boards conducting medical mission work,
the Board of Directors of Synod shall appoint an Executive Secre-
tary. The Executive Secretary shall be responsible to the Execu-
tive Committee and shall perform such duties as are outlined above
or which may be assigned by the Executive Committee or which
may be requested by mission boards. The Executive Secretary
shall serve in an advisory capacity to all boards conducting med-
ical mission work and shall hold conferences and attend meetings
in order to establish close co-ordination and co-operation between
the LMMA and all boards conducting medical mission work.

We respectfully submit this report and request the favorable
action of Synod.

Cuartes G. Osermever, M.D. Harowp J. Freimerr, M, D.
Turo. Hanser, M. D. Norma Graesner, R. N.
Cuartes E. Srinvet, M. D. J. P. KREtZMANN

ACTION
Concerning a full-time Executive Secretary for Medical Mis-
sions, Committee 2 recommended a resolution which was adopted:

Resolution 21

Wuereas, The development of the Medical Mission Program
in our church in recent years has been especially blessed by God
in the expansion of the hospital in India, the erection of hospitals
in Nigeria and New Guinea, the proposed reactivation of the hos-
pital in Guatemala, in clinic and dispensary work in the Philippines,
Hong Kong, Japan, and elsewhere; and

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in Milwau-
kee in 1950, and again in Houston in 1953, gave its approval to the
Lutheran Medical Mission Association and instructed it to formu-
late a modus operandi (work plan) and submit plans for future
development to the Board of Directors of Synod; and

Wuereas, The work of medical missions is an extremely effec-
tive and highly desirable phase of the work of our church and

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