# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S838
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838 Financial Matters

A. Mission Matters

1. The Board had to keep in touch with the various phases
of our mission-work in order to grant all necessary and possible 4

financial aid. This was particularly true of our South American
Mission-field. Wherever possible, we received personal: reports

from missionaries and other workers on furlough, such as Pastor °

Truenow from Argentina, Professor Rehfeldt and Dr. Jahn of our
Porto Alegre institution, and recently Professor Lehenbauer, presi-
dent of the school at Crespo. Attention was given to the question
of the salaries of our South American workers, both professors
and missionaries, Since these salaries are often woefully inade-
quate, bonuses had to be allowed to help out temporarily. As to
the missionaries and their needs, we refer you to the report of the
Board for Missions in South America.

2. Dr. J. H.C. Fritz, on his return from Australia, gave the
Board a report on the work of our brethren on that far-away
continent. The Australian brethren expressed to us their appre-
ciation of the fact that Synod sent Dr. Fritz as our representative.
The question of rendering help for the mission in New Guinea
was referred by the last convention to the Board of Directors and:
the Fiscal Conference. Since our own budget for 1939, when this
request was before us, had to be cut down considerably, the Fiscal
Conference could not see its way clear to add the sum of about
$5,000 for this mission to our budget. The Australian brethren
are therefore conducting this mission without our help.

3. As to the instructor in the Finnish language at the Spring-
field Seminary (Proceedings 1938, p. 235), arrangements were made
that Synod pay half the expense, $1,230, as a subsidy to the Finnish
Church.

4. Since the North Wisconsin District had taken over the
Indian Mission at Gresham, Wis., as a District enterprise, the
last convention had instructed and empowered the Board~ of
Directors to convey to the North Wisconsin District our proprietary
interest in lands and buildings at Gresham, Wis. This resolution
was carried out in November, 1938.

5. Our contacts with the South American mission-fields and
the Mission Board, through Mission Secretary Streufert, con-
vineed us that a new mission policy for South America should be
inaugurated and that the South American Districts should be
placed under the supervision of one Mission Board for North and
South America. A separate memorial will be presented to Synod

on this matter.
B. Educational Matters

I. Christian Elementary Education
While the resolution of Synod that an executive secretary for
the Board of Christian Education be called was not carried out,