# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S175
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Various Missions 175

Emergency Fund

The Board requests that an Emergency Fund of $500 annually
be placed at the Board’s disposal. This fund is used to pay the
traveling expenses of one of the Finnish brethren and of Pastor
N. Baeuerle to the convention of the Free:Church of Saxony and
Other States, also to pay the traveling expenses of members of
the Board to fiscal conferences and the synodical convention, the
synodical publications for the brethren in France, Finland, and
Estonia, and other miscellaneous expenses.

Finally, the Board expresses its appreciation that the Board
of Directors sent a representative, in the person of Vice-President
Henry Grueber, to inspect the mission-fields in Europe. The
Board recommends that a representative of Synod be sent at

regular intervals. Te Boarp or Home Missions in Europe

Pau G. SANDER

Report of Committee 2:

In regard to the mission in Germany as conducted by the
Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Saxony and Other States,
we note with joy that eighteen congregations are self-supporting,
that a new congregation has been founded, and that the average
contribution of the members is very gratifying; and we therefore
recommend that it be

Resolved, That Synod commend the members of the Free
Church of Saxony and Other States for the faithful support of their
work; and be it further

Resolved, That the request for a subsidy of $30,000 a year be
referred to the Fiscal Conference for favorable action.*

Regarding the congregations in France, we recommend that
sympathy be expressed to the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church
of Alsace for the loss of their Treasurer, Mr. Henry Kreiss, whom
the Lord translated to the Church Triumphant.

We further recommend that, if possible, Synod make provisions
for the participation of our brethren in France in our Pension
Fund, since it is due solely to the laws of France that a separate
synod is maintained in that country; and be it finally

Resolved, That the request for a subsidy of $5,000 be referred
to the Fiscal Conference for favorable action.

In repect to the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Finland,
be it

* Committee 2 brought in the resolution, which was adopted: Be
it resolved that the phrase “referred to the Fiscal Conference for favor-
able action” as used by Synod’s Committee on Missions in its reports
shall not be construed so as to make the granting of a request mandatory.

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