# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S174
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162 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

5. Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, N. C., is conducted
in the interest of such Negroes as wish to become pastors or teachers
in colored congregations.

6. Without repeating the information already contained in the
report, page 134, concerning the debt of the Colored Missions, your
Committee would call attention to the following: The debentures
mentioned are being exchanged as rapidly as possible for 3-per-cent.
debentures. The principal by this time amounts to a little less than
$97,700, mentioned in the report. It is to be hoped that the debentures
maturing this fall can likewise be exchanged for 3-per-cent. papers.

Action of Synod.
This report was adopted.

Concerning the proposed African Mission, Committee 12 brought
in the following report: —

We recommend: —
1. That the work in Africa be undertaken and carried on;

2. That on account of the urgency of the call to this work as
many of the constituent synods of the Synodical Conference as shall
express themselves in favor of undertaking this work take steps as
soon as possible to begin and carry on the work under the direction
of the Missionary Board of the Synodical Conference until the meet-
ing of the Synodical Conference in 1936;

3. That this be a temporary arrangement and be reported to the
Synodical Conference next year;

4. That Dr. L. Fuerbringer deal with the constituent synods to
obtain their consent for this arrangement;

5. That in our opinion it is in the interest of a better control
of the work that one synod undertake and carry on this work.

Action of Synod.
These five recommendations were adopted.

Report of Board of Foreign Missions.
(Memorial 308.)

The three years comprehended in our report have, by the grace of
God, been on the whole a period of peaceful, quiet growth for our
Foreign Missions. The Lord prospered the work of our General Sec-
retary and our missionaries so that in spite of the well-known finan-
cial difficulties considerable progress was made, as is borne out by the
statistics for 1934, from which the following figures are taken.

In India our missionaries sent there from America number
44 male and 5 female workers. For Indian mission-helpers the figures
are: 4 pastors, 19 evangelists, 5 vicars, 82 catechists, 232 teachers,