# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S203
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

; Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields 203

at The subsidies granted the Atlantic District include subsidies for
sundry missions of the District. — South Dakota has gone back
the line of self-sustaining Districts. May the Lord bless it with

ently placed is somewhat lower than in p.evious years. In
, 162 candidates received a permanent cail. The number of

. Candidate Fund Payments
1938 to 1939
1939 to 1940 . 3
1940 to LOAD nnn cence eee 28,137.37

“ ‘The Candidate Fund is now operating in its sixth year. Thou-
ds of homes were visited during the past triennium. Hundreds
of adults were enrolled in adult-membership classes, hundreds of
‘Children were brought to our Sunday-schools and day-schools
through the efforts of candidates temporarily employed, and in
numerous cities preliminary work was done and the foundation
laid for new missions.

- But what of the future? Will it be to the best interests of the
Church to continue the Candidate Fund for the temporary place-
ment of candidates? There can be no doubt that much good has
been wrought through the creation of a Candidate Fund, but, after
all, it was and is but an emergency measure. We therefore feel
constrained to ask whether the time has come that we ought to go
back to normalcy and gradually eliminate the Candidate Fund, and
whether it would therefore be advisable to limit the Candidate
Fund to the exploration and the development of new mission-
expansion possibilities.

“Mission Expansion. — At the meeting of the College of Presi-
dents mission expansion was discussed at length. More than one.
* hundred bona-fide mission opportunities were presented and de-
‘scribed in detail. The Fiscal Conference of 1940 had granted the
Board of Home Missions a Mission Expansion Fund of $50,000 for
1941 to grasp the outstanding mission opportunities offered. This
amount, however, did not suffice to meet the opportunities of the
hour. Only thirty-five fields could receive consideration and be
permanently supplied. Twenty others received subsidies from the
Candidate Fund for the temporary placement of candidates to hold
and further develop such fields as could at this time not be per-
manently manned.