# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1928_S63
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1928. 63
[Printed in English.]

Changing the Name of the Board.

Your Committee recommends that the name of the Board, “The
Missionary Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference
of North America for Missions among the Heathen and the Negroes,”
be changed to “The Missionary Board of the Lutheran Synodical
Conference.”

Adopted.

“The Colored Lutheran.”

Your Committee recommends that the name The Colored Lu-
theran be changed to The Missionary Lutheran, a Witness for
the Truth.

Adopted.

Organizations of Congregations.

Relative to an overture from the colored missionaries regarding
a closer organization of our missionary congregations, your Com-
mittee recommends that the Synodical Conference empower its pres-
ident to appoint a committee of three to work out and submit such
a plan two years hence.

Rev. C. F. Drewes, Rev. W. Hallerberg, and Prof. J. T. Mueller
were appointed members of this committee.

Adopted.

Regulations Controlling the Purchase of Property from the
Missionary Board by Congregations.

As it is desirable that our mission-congregations be organized,
become self-supporting, and own their own church property, and as it
is the purpose of the Synodical Conference and the Missionary Board
to encourage congregations to strive for these ideals, the following
regulations have been adopted covering the purchase of property
from the Missionary Board by individual congregations: —

a) The purchasing congregation shall be regularly organized on
the basis of a constitution approved by the Missionary Board.

b) The purchasing congregation shall be incorporated under the
laws of the State in which it is located.

c) Before a congregation may purchase any property from the
Missionary Board, it must be self-sustaining to the extent that it
pays all its local expenses other than salaries and at least one half
the salary of its pastor, or if the congregation be a part of a parish
consisting of more than one congregation, it must be self-sustaining
to the extent that it pays all its local expenses other than salaries and
at least one half of its proportionate part of its pastor's salary.

d) When the purchase of property is contemplated, the matter
must be submitted to the respective superintendent for approval.

e) The price at which a piece of property may be sold by the
Missionary Board to the purchasing congregation shall be proposed
by a committee of three, consisting of a representative of the Mis-
sionary Board, a representative of the congregation, and a dis-
interested third party, selected by the first two. The findings of this
committee shall be submitted to the Missionary Board and the pur-
chasing congregation, ratification by both parties being required be-
fore a contract of sale may be negotiated.