# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1928_S147
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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

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9. Our colored congregations resolved at their
Third General Conference, in 1927, to ask the
Board to cause the Synodical Conference to change
the name of The Colored Lutheran. Their com-
mittee suggests the name J'he Missionary Lutheran,
a Witness for the Truth. The Board recommends
that this wish be granted.

10. The Board also recommends that the peti-
tion of the Third General Conference for a@ closer
organization of our missionary congregations be
granted and that the Synodical Conference appoint
a committee to work out a constitution for such

larly organized on the basis of a constitution ap-
proved by the Mission Board.

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

c) Before a congregation may purchase any
property from the 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

Delegates of Lutheran Synodical Conference, Gathered in Convention at Omaha, Nebr.,
August 8—13, 1928.

a closer organization. This petition by no means
refers to an independent colored synod.

11. The Granting of the Right of Purchase. —
The Board submits for consideration the following
plan, in accordance with which congregations could
buy the mission property : —

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 Board for Colored Missions to encourage con-
gregations to strive for these ideals, the following
regulations have been adopted covering the pur-
chase of property from the Board for Colored Mis-
sions by individual congregations : —

a) The purchasing congregation shall be regu-

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 contem-
plated, the matter must be submitted to the respec-
tive superintendent for approval.

e) The price at which a piece of property may
be sold by the Board for Colored Missions to the
purchasing congregation shall be proposed by a com-
mittee of three, consisting of a representative of the
Mission Board, a representative of the congregation,
and a disinterested third party, selected by the first
two. The findings of this committee shall be sub-
mitted to the Board for Colored Missions and the
purchasing congregation, ratification by both parties