# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S847
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

847

Financial Matters

, That the program of the Call of the Cross, which has done so
£ Synod an understanding and appre-

© give the members 0:
“of Synod’s work as well as of the meaning and implications

‘istian stewardship, be continued.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.

-4, the Army and Navy Commission, Commit-
11. recommended the following resolution for adoption:
That Synod approve the action taken by the Board of Directors
af of the Army and Navy Commission.

“Action of Synod: This resolution was adopted.

, Concerning D

Offices for Synod
(Memorial. 509)

With very few minor exceptions, Synod, has had no other

space than that which has been furnished for a consideration
Concordia Publishing House. At present the following depart-
nents of Synod have their offices in Concordia Publishing House:
! Pensions, Accounting, Publicity,

re. Fiscal, Auditing, Missions,
tistical, and School and Sunday-school departments. Some of
ay find it necessary to expand beyond their

ese departments m
sent boundaries, and several other departments should be
ight under the same roof in order to insure a maximum of

0 operation and efficient coordination. Concordia Publishing House
only finds itself unable to make additional space available to
it to request Synod to

od, but its growing business compels
eate some of the space it now occupies. Your Board of Directors
rder to accommodate the

ust therefore find space somewhere in 0
various synodical departments coming under consideration. As
dy the problem sufficiently

myet. we have had no opportunity to stu

tago that we might suggest the most practical or expedient remedy,
d consequently we are -not prepared to mention the probable
cost. However, it is clear to us that a solution must soon be found,
for. which reason we cannot wait until Synod’s meeting in 1944.
‘e therefore respectfully urge Synod to
Resolve, That the Board of Directors be authorized and in-
. structed to erect or purchase and alter, and equip a serviceable
ffice building on a suitable plot of ground in St. Louis, Mo., such
ilding to provide sufficient floor space for the offices now under
onsideration and for possible future expansion; and that it be

of the foregoing resolution, That
that all moneys needed to cover
be in the hands of the Treasurer

- Resolved for the purpose
~ Synod’s rule — which requires
the cost of a building operation