# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S261
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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 249
Board went on record against turning over the property to Synod,
holding that it should be transferred to the District, to be held in
the name of Synod. Neither did this board favor taking over this
mission. The old Immigrant Mission Board was therefore asked to
hold over until this synodical convention. The Atlantic District
Board favors the arrangement that the present members of the Im-
migrant Mission Board gradually be replaced by members of the
‘Board of Directors and that the charter be changed accordingly.
They also ask that the income from the property go to the treasury
of the District for the conduct of this mission. Our Board consented
to this arrangement for the time being, awaiting the action of Synod.

3. The Board has been in consultation with the brethren in Brazil
about the erection of a chapel in Rio de Janeiro. Since it was the
sense of Synod that the brethren at Rio de Janeiro and in the Brazil
District should first exhaust their own resources for this purpose,
they were so advised. Although the chapel has not been erected as
yet, our correspondence indicates that there is hope that this objective
will be reached, though the Board did not as yet have to make use of
its authority to render financial aid in the matter.

4. Other financial matters affecting our missions were given due
attention, as will also be brought out in the report of the various mis-
sion boards. While budgets necessarily had to be reduced, our aint
was to favor missions rather than other phases of our synodical work.

5. While no special representative was sent to Europe, as the
European Mission Board was authorized to do in conjunction with
the Board of Directors, the President asked Rev. 0.C. A. Boecler,
while on his way to Africa as a member of the Exploration Committee
of the Synodical Conference, to get into contact with our German
brethren, which was done. On his return trip Rev. Boecler is to
spend some time in Germany and will be ready to report to Synod
on the situation as he found it.

6. The last Synod resolved to eliminate the boards for the
Foreign-tongued Missions, the Jewish Missions, the Indian Mis-
sions, the Seamen’s Mission and the Immigrant Missions and to
transfer this work to the repective Districts in which this work is
carried on (Proceedings, 1932, p.111). Some of these missions were
taken over by various Districts, although special subsidies had to be
granted. Other Districts hesitated to take over such missions, since
they felt that they could not finance them; neither did they wish to
be classified as subsidized Districts on account of these missions. This
matter was taken up with the officers of such Districts with a view
of bringing in recommendations to Synod. The District boards are
willing to supervise. these missions as agents of Synod. We recom-
mend that this be granted and that special allowances be made for
this work until these missions can be entirely absorbed.