# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S144
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‘ 180 ’ Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular ‘Convention,

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Thirdly, the Board recommends that its personnel be enlarged to
{nclude two advisory members, well acquainted with the mission
opportunities in the Districts lying along the periphery. These ad-
visory members are to assist the Board during the forthcoming
financial campaign and otherwise to sponsor the cause of church
extension. ‘

Finally, the Board again recommends that its incorporation be
authorized in order that its business transactions may be expedited,
such as the. release of mortgages and, in emergency cases, the pur-..
chasing of properties for petitioners unable otherwise to meet Synod’s

requirements as to loans. ¥. W. Wewmann, Chairman

An Enlarged Church Extension Fund.
(Overture 613.)

_ What is the greatest material need in our Synod at the pres-
ent time?

- No doubt, at the outset there may be quite a variety of opinions
in replying to this question. Yet the undersigned and those in whose’
behalf they submit this overture venture to hope that the whole
Synod can be made to realize that to-day there is one outstanding.
material need, one that overtops all others, and that one is a larger
Church Extension Fund.

There were other and perhaps greater needs: our colleges and
seminaries were woefully underbuilt. The absolute need for new, *
larger, and better-equipped buildings has in a great measure been
met by the magnificent response of our people in the Building Fund
Campaign of the last six years. Another crying need, that of a better a
provision for our invalid pastors and teachers and the widows and *
orphans of deceased pastors and teachers, has also been at least partly
met by magnanimous measures adopted and executed by the Lutheran. |
Laymen’s League with the generous support of our members through- -
out Synod. a

The Home Missions Conference is persuaded that of all the re- “4
maining material needs of our dear Synod the most pressing at the
present time is an adequate Church Extension Fund. This Con-
ference, consisting of the General Home Mission Board and repre-
sentatives of the twenty-five Districts in North America, resolved in ™
its convention, held in August, 1925, to petition Synod to arrange for a
an intensive campaign during the next triennium for the ingathering-
of contributions from the communicant membership of our whole
Synod to build up our Church Extension Fund..

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico, calls.
continue to come in for loans out of our General Church Extension. 4