# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S96
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96 Proceedings of the 29th General or

Requests to Undertake Mission Work in Still Other Parts of the World.

During the last triennium the Committee received requests to proclaim Christ in other countries as well.
Thus people in Persia asked that a preacher be sent. Before we wanted to take any further steps in the
matter, we inquired whether another Lutheran church body was not already at work in that place, and
whether the petitioners themselves had not already been served from some other quarter, so that we
might run the risk of intruding into someone else's field if we took them on. To this inquiry no answer
has yet been received.

We also received a call to begin work in Panama. In the past week a petition arrived from Guatemala,
Central America, in which a member of our Synod earnestly begs that he and other people there be given
the opportunity to hear the pure Word of God. He closes his petition with the words: "People living near
a Lutheran church do not realize how fortunate they are, nor what a blessing it is to be able to attend a
Lutheran church. Many of us do not know how good the Lord is to us until we are deprived of His
blessing." This request should be granted.

Committee Report.

We recommend the following requests for adoption:

1. For the institution in Porto Alegre a third teacher is desired. The two teachers there, who instruct
19 pupils divided into four classes, have for some time already been so overburdened with work that they
do not dare take on instruction in a new class before the first one has taken its examination, even though
Rev. Mahler, besides his work at the congregation, has been teaching twenty hours a week. Furthermore it
is entirely important and urgently necessary that more and more pupils from the congregations there, who
are acclimated and familiar with local conditions, be trained up for service in the church. For these
reasons we most warmly recommend the appointment of a third teacher for the institution there.

Resolution: A theological professorship shall be established. (See under "Lehranstalten" [educational
institutions], Porto Alegre, p. 66.)

2. The report states: "The Commission for Brazil, together with the Reverend General President, has
determined that it is urgently necessary to call a mission director for Brazil. It asks the Reverend
Synod to approve this."

We recommend that the Commission be authorized to send a mission director.

The recommendation was raised to a resolution.

3. Regarding the great mission field in Argentina, we would encourage that our work there also be
vigorously expanded.

Adopted.