# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S221
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$08 Procéédings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

Regulations for the Foreign Mission Board.
‘ (Memorial 601, C, 5.)
Report of Committee 15:—

1. For the conduct and ° supervision of our Foreign Mission
work there shall be elected a board consisting of eleven members, of

Board shall be elected by Synod in accordance with the rules and
é for elections. The Board shall be empowered
to fill any vacancy which may occur, subject to the approval of the

committees. from its own membership, one committee for missions in
China, another for missions: in India, and such others as may be
deemed necessary. The Board shall draft the necessary regulations
for these committees,

3. The committees shall transact all routine business in their
respective departments, Extraordinary matters and such as are of

tises, everything pertaining to the sending out of missionaries, regard-
ing the territory in which they are to work, and the like, shall be
decided by the Board.

4. The Board shall, with the approval of the President of Synod,
elect an Executive Secretary, who shall devote his entire time to the
work of missions, explore al] candidates and prospects for F, oreign

shall also, aftey due consultation with the Executive Secretary, call,
recall, and dismiss Missionaries, ;

5. The Executive Secretary shal] attend all meetings of the Board
as well as of the committees, Periodically he shall send information
and reports to all District representatives and the Presidents of all
participating synods.

6. In the time intervening between the two meetings of Synod
the Board may, if it is apparent that God is calling us to a new field,
also begin work jn Some other foreign territory (besides China and
India), provided that the President of Synod, the Board of Directors,

8. The Board together with the President of Synod shall also,
as soon as practicable, elect and call resident directors of missions