# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S120
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120 Proceedings of the 28th General or

The Danish Free Church has only two pastors, *Präses* [president] J. M. Michael and Pastor J. N. H. Rosenwinkel. They are missionaries in the fullest sense of the word, proclaiming the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Danish language in many places. For their livelihood they depend almost entirely on our Synod. Präses Michael writes: "We pastors have proposed to our congregations that they join the Saxon Free Church. We 'Danes' are too small a number of people to maintain a whole synodical apparatus. Moreover, great spiritual blessing will flow to us from our brothers in the faith in Germany if we form one synod together with them. It will also be simpler to direct the money for Europe to a single address."

Pastor Rosenwinkel has established a parish school in the city of Copenhagen. The Commission has encouraged him in this, in the conviction that the whole Synod will rejoice over it and will gladly grant the small support needed for it, so that everywhere, even into the heart of Denmark, it may be testified: "We are friends of the Christian parish school and consider it the best means of giving children a Christian upbringing and of building up the kingdom of our Savior."

The Danish Free Church requires $1656.00 in support annually, to which $40.00 is added each year to pay the interest on the money that had to be borrowed to set up the school.

It was resolved:

1. that we will support our brothers in the European free churches (the Saxon and the Danish) as vigorously as possible, since they labor under the most difficult and for the most part impoverished conditions with great self-denial (about $5700.00 annually is needed for this cause);

2. that, since the Synod established a general fund for the European free churches three years ago, all gifts for European free churches and congregations should also flow into this fund. Private requests from individual congregations and pastors should not be considered. In cases of particular need a congregation may send out a petition, but it must be endorsed by the Präses of the respective European free church and by the Commission for Inner Mission Abroad.

General Provisions.

1. The provision of the previous Delegate Synod, "that in every synodical district a representative be appointed who will speak on the mission in Brazil at the district convention," shall be broadened to read: "who will speak on Inner Mission Abroad." The Synod shall appoint such representatives at its present session, who are to be notified of their election by the Secretary of the General Synod.