# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S218
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

218 Reports and Action on Various Mission-Fields

Report of Committee 2
1. We recommend that a member of the Board of South Amer-

ican Missions be given ten minutes to present the work of South
America; and we furthermore

Recommend that men from the field also be heard.
. 2, Resolved, that we commend the brethren in our South
American fields for their faithful and untiring efforts and their

unselfish sacrifice in the interest of Christ’s cause in these trying
times of political unrest.

3. Wuereas, The salaries of our workers in South America
have been greatly affected by successive depreciations of native
currencies; and

Wuereas, In spite of Synod’s liberal support of the South
American Missions one of the greatest and most urgent needs men-
tioned is relief for missionaries to meet the increased cost of
living; therefore be it

Resolved, That the officials in charge of this work adopt such
measures as will relieve the present emergency and increase the
subsidy to meet all the demands for an efficient prosecution of the
work; and be it further

Resolved, That the officials collaborate with the pastors and
congregations in carrying out the aforementioned resolution.

Action of Synod: These recommendations and resolutions were
adopted.

(Upon adoption of Point 1 above, the Rev. E. V. Haseroth, a member
of the Board, outlined the policy of the Board. Missionary Werschler
from Brazil and Missionary Riedel from Argentina also spoke on phases
of the work in South America.)

Placing the Brazil and Argentina Districts on the Same
Basis with the Subsidized Districts in the United States
and Creating a Board of Home Missions for North and
South America
(Memorial 408)

It must ever be our aim to build an indigenous, self-propa-
gating, and eventually self-supporting Church wherever we bring
the Gospel. Therefore also in our subsidized Home Mission
Districts both in North and in South America the time. must
eventually come when the congregations, together with their
pastors, direct, expand, develop, supervise, and support the mission
endeavor of their respective Districts alone and according to the
standards of living in their Districts.