# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S190
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

188 ~ Reports on General Missions

Besides this initial cost of $150,000 a year, the plan would
necessitate the expenditure of approximately $150,000 for Church
Extension a year, or $750,000 for five years,

Thus, putting the whole plan of expansion calling for the
opening of 100 new stations on a five-year basis, the approximate
total cost of financing 100 stations with man-power and buildings
would be about $300,000 a year, or $1,500,000 for five years. This
is a maximum estimate.

In reality the total five-year project would ‘probably not cost
more than $1,000,000. In the above figures we are, in the first
place, figuring a maximum average of $1,500 per station for running
expenses, Again, in the $1,500,000 is not taken into consideration
any income from these stations. Furthermore, a project of this
nature may create a desire on the part of more of our people
to follow the example set by some, namely, to build memorial
chapels at some of these new stations. A conservative estimate
of the cost of such an undertaking would hardly exceed $1,000,000
over a period of five years. However, to be on the safe side, it
would be advisable to keep the figure at $1,500,000 for the five-year

eriod.
period How the Expansion Fund is to Be Used

The Home Mission Board shall be the executive committee for
the allocation of the mission-expansion funds. The Home Missions
Board shall be responsible to the Board of Directors for its action
in the allocation of this special mission fund.

Any board or congregation within Synod- shall be eligible to
apply for money from the Expansion Fund through its District
Home Missions Board to do mission-work,

The Home Mission Board would appropriate the moneys on
the general basis of a five-year expansion plan. For example:
The —— District Home Mission Committee has made application
to the General Home Mission Committee for a subsidy of $15,000
for Station X. $7,500 of the $15,000 subsidy request is for running
expenses for five years; the balance of $7,500 is to be used for the
building of a chapel. The Home Mission Board satisfies itself that
the proposed new mission at X is a bona-fide mission opportunity.
It grants the District Home Missions Board the sum of $15,000
for Station X. as a subsidy for five years.

Continuing the example: Station X. is under the supervision of
the —— District Home Mission Board like all other mission-stations
subsidized by the —— District, The General Home Mission Board
has no supervision over the conduct of the mission at Station X.
The —— District Home Mission Board, however, is held to submit
a detailed annual report on the general progress of the work at
Station X. and is held to the policy of not spending more of the