# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S106
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92 .. Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

General. Board, on the basis of such information, to see to it that 4
all men and means are systematically employed as is most profitable a
for the Church.

8. Synod salaries the directors of missions from. the General
Home Mission Treasury,

9. Synod may fix a maximum salary and then refer the regulation
of individual salaries to the chairman, the secretary, and the two
laymen of the General Mission Board.

It is our conviction that in this way contacts will be established,
making possible more concerted, uniform, and systematic cooperation ,
of all Districts in all directions.

Report of Committee 7.

“In this brief the necessity of concerted and well-directed action
by all Districts in matters of our Home Missions was stressed. To
gain. the goal, the brethren propose the creating of a board, consisting
of seven members, of whom three are to be salaried directors of
missions, each supervising the Home Mission activities of a group
of Districts and aiming at general uniformity and, hence, greater

_ efficiency.

“These few words do not do justice to the proposition in its
details. However, its adoption by Synod would entail such incisive
alterations in our present system of conducting Home Missions that
your Committee feels the whole plan should be fully discussed at
conferences and District synods and then submitted, possibly with
amendments, to the next Delegate Synod for discussion and action.”

The committee’s recommendation was adopted.

Home Missions in Europe.

Report of the Board.
(Abridged. — German Report, p. 165.)

The members of the Board elected in Fort Wayne were Rev. W.
Koepchen, Rev. Aug. Koerber, Mr. Geo. Overbeck, Rev. Geo. Koenig, -
and Dr. F. C. Haeckel. Since the last two did not accept. the office,
4 Rey. Theo. Kuehn and Mr. F. Baumann, the latter formerly a member
; of the Free Church of Germany, were elected in their places. Upon
iz the illness and the resignation of Rev. Koepchen, in the summer of |
a 1924, Rev. E. Holls became a member of the Board.

” . -The Board .worked hand in hand with the Lutheran Board.
a for Relief in Europe. Joint meetings were held when Mr. Seuel,
Dr. Mezger, Dr. Heylandt, and Dr: Koch reported on the conditions ‘3
im the Free Church. 4
Dr. Mezger began his work in Zehlendorf in the fall of 1928.
im He is a member of all important boards and committees of the Free
: ' Church. At the expiration of the year the faculty and the board of :