# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S54
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

54 Proceedings of Thirty-First National Conventig

The loans made during 1917—20 enabled the q
preached to an average attendance of 29,293 people ¢ 7
225 requests could not be granted. Greater funds are

In order to provide greater funds, the Board recoms’h
the balance of the Army and Navy Fund be placed into m
that additional funds be gathered by offerings, presenta,
bearing loans, legacies, etc.; that all congregations which
efit from this fund be, from the very beginning, encou
one offering a year for this fund. The Board asked y
incorporate under the name of “Lutheran Church- -Building:
Proposed regulations governing loans to congregations were
Authority to engage an Executive Secretary was requeste,
tion of the English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer,”
a loan of $35,000 was also reported. This request, however;
withdrawn, so that no action was needed.

ACTION.

Synod recommended that the congregations contribute
erally to this treasury, and that individuals be urged to ren
treasury with presents, legacies, and non-interest bearing lo

proposed regulations governing loans to churches were:
the Board of Directors for revision. The request for ine -
and change of name was tabled, Synod’s incorporation being g
The Church Extension Board was authorized to engage, wii
sent of the Board of Directors, the necessary assistance.
of the Army and Navy Fund was voted to this treasury.
The committee in charge also reported that the financi
the Church Extension Board had been presented, and was f
audited and reported correct by the auditing committee.
Petition of Grace Church, Los: Angeles, Cal. — Me
This petition was referred to the Church Extension Boa’

For Treasurer’s Report see German Report, pp. 117 fE. : :

Home Missions in Foreign Countries
(Germ. Rep., pp. 121—128.)

The World War greatly hindered this work. Com
with the missionaries was difficult, irregular, and often 17
Still, thanks are due to God for His protection and blessing:
the bitter hatred against everything German which the war @&
no missionary suffered’ bodily harm, no property was d
mission-post was lost. A measure of progress can even