# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S200
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

198 Reports on General Missions

on missions, but the whole missionary endeavor will be integrated
with the emphasis on Christian education.

A periodic release of a Laymen’s Bulletin in conjunction with
the Clergy Bulletin will be continued.

A program for Winkelkonferenzen attuned to the Call of the
Cross program will go out to all chairmen of conferences with the
suggestion that it be used wherever possible.

There is in preparation a series of two booklets of mission
stories and stewardship stories. These should be on the market
through Concordia Publishing House early in fall.

A series of four booklets on Missionary Education is scheduled
to come off the press by December, 1941. This series covers, in
brief, concise form and popular style, the story of missions under
four major topics;

1. Missions in the Bible;

2. The History of Missions during the Past Two Thousand
Years; ,

3. The Story of Missions in Our Church Today;

4. My Personal Missionary Responsibility.

This series will be sold by Concordia Publishing House at $1.00
per series.. This price is made possible by a subsidy. These
booklets are to serve: :

a. For general reading;

b. For source material for Walther League study topics;

c. For source material for Lutheran Laymen’s League study
topics;

d. For source material for women’s organizations;

e. For source material for Christian day-school teachers;

f. For source material for Sunday-school teachers.

Rev. L. Meyer, Secretary

(The Committee also received two supplementary reports by Prof.
F.E. Mayer, Unprinted Memorials 123, 139.)

Report of Committee 2

A. Resolved that we commend the Call of the Cross Com-
mittee for the fine work that has been accomplished by the un-
tiring efforts of its members.

B. Wuergas, The missionary activity in many local congrega-
tions was stimulated by the Call of the Cross movement; and

Wuergas, There is continual need for such stimulation in our
congregations; therefore be it

Resolved, That this worth-while endeavor be continued.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.