# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S146
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182 , Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

already planned for some Districts, will be obviated. Synod may
also consider the advisability of determining a certain ratio for loans
to missions in foreign lands.

Respectfully submitted,
Tue Home Missions CONFERENCE.

H. Dam, Chairman.
A. von SCHLICHTEN. The Committee.
Martin Waker, Sec.

L. L. L. to Solicit Special Contributions for Church Extension Fund.

To preach the Gospel of Christ for the salvation of lost sinners
js the sacred work and prerogative of the Christian Church.

While the Gospel of Christ is under all ‘conditions a power of
God unto salvation, yet suitable places of worship will greatly aid in
the work of the Church, as experience: has amply shown. Under
present-day conditions this work of the Church can barely be carried
on successfully where such places of worship are not provided.

Because many of our missions, for lack of funds, must be housed
in wholly inadequate and often inappropriate quarters, their progress
is slow, and they must be supported for a great length of time. Had
we sufficient funds to build chapels, schools, and parsonages, such
missions would become self-supporting within a much shorter period.

The starting of missions in many instances is delayed for lack of
funds to provide the needed quarters, and the field is lost to our
Church.

If our Church Extension Fund were of adequate size to help
provide our missions with suitable places of worship, with schools,
and with parsonages, all mission’ moneys contributed by our Chris-
tians could be used in their entirety for the preaching of the Gospel.
(It was reported at one of our synodical District conventions — see
report of Atlantic District for 1925, page 69, lines 8 and 9 from top —
that the greater part of the moneys at the disposal of the Mission
Board had to be paid for rentals.)

The only solution of this difficulty, therefore, seems to be to
provide, by special effort of some kind, an adequate Church Extension
Fund, since the amounts provided for in the general, the District, and
the congregational budgets are wholly insufficient for the purpose.

Now, the Lutheran Laymen’s League, through its Board of Direc-
tors, hereby offers to Synod to undertake the gathering of special
contributions for the Church Extension Fund, and it’ therefore peti-
tions Synod: — .

“That Synod authorize the Lutheran Laymen’s League to solicit
throughout Synod special contributions for the Church Extension
Fund for a specified term of years; and