# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1929_S76
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

‘76 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention,

Apportionment of Home Mission Subsidies,

The unprinted overture on this matter read as follows: — a
“Under the present rules of Synod it is the business of the Fiscal:
Conference to apportion the synodical budget among the District, :
The Home Missions Conference, working independently, fixes the ”
Home Mission subsidies. There is such a close relation betw

ference apportion also the Home Missions subsidies,”

The committee reported as follows: “Your Committee would like
to refer to the decision of the Mission Conference to meet before
the meeting of the Fisca] Conference which -fixes the budget and to
be represented at the Fiscal] Conference,

“Since the apportioning of the Home Missions subsidies involves
such a study of detail and such intimate acquaintance with the rami
fications of the work, it would saddle the Fiscal Conference with
a tremendous burden to ask it to do this, and in the opinion of your
Committee this work may well be left in the hands of the annual
Mission Conference, Your Committee recommends that no change
be effected in this matter, believing that the Fisca] Conference should
honor the findings of the Mission Conference and make changes only
under pressure of the greatest necessity,”

Synod adopted this recommendation.

Church Extension Matters,
The Church Extension Board had reported, in part, as follows: —

During the past three years the General Church Extension Fund
rounded out twenty-five years of its existence, Called into existence

Reformation anniversary collection augmented the fund by
$344,895.94. In 1920 the surplus in the treasury of the Lutheran:
Church Board for Army and Navy, U. §, A., amounting to °
$318,747.24, was added to the fund. Three years ago the fund was *
put on Synod’s budget. At the beginning of the year 1929, 295 con
Bregations owed the General Church Extension Fund $999,889.99,
During the twenty-seven years of the working of the fund about
$1,900,000 has been lent to 468 congregations, A map will be on
display at the meeting of Synod showing the distribution of these