# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S434 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 434 MISSIONS Resolution 28 Subject: Board for European Affairs — England Resolved, That we express joy over the successful organiza- theran books (CPH, Ltd.), Lutheran films, a nd the tour of the Springfield Seminary chorus; and be it Resolved, That special emphasis be laid on the development and training of a national ministr y and to that end provision be made in the budget for the establishment and maintenance of a “Luther House” in connection with one of the universities of Eng- land where such future church workers can be trained; and be it Resolved, That we encourage the ELCE to continue its con- sultations with the Lutheran nationalistic groups in the interest of establishing doctrinal unity. Report of the Board for Foreign Missions (Report 422) Reviewing the work with which th e Board for Foreign Mis- Slons was concerned, the past three thrust into a new country, of digging in, of consolidating the positions that were occupied, a picture of steady work, steady Progress, deepening, indigenizing, moving forward step by step, with the Word of God preached in truth and in power and bringing forth fruit. Philippine Islands (Iligan, Balakbak, San places in Hong Kong, Formosa, and in Japan. Significant forward Steps are the organization of a synod in the Ambur District in India and constitutions set up for similar organizations in the Nagercoil and Trivandrum areas. Similarly,