# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S166
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166 | ' Missions

. Resolved, That Synod through the Boards of Missions in foreign
countries intensify the efforts.to train-and d develop 2 ‘a native min-
istry; be it further. .

Resolved, That ‘efforts be made to secure missionaries for
foreign lands who. are also qualified to establish and conduct the-
ological schools and to instruct and prepare young converts as

‘trained national workers; be it further

Resolved, That Synod correspondingly make available the
necessary funds to expand and to develop the Mission Department
of the Graduate School at Concordia Seminary at St. Louis.

3. WueErgas, It is necessary that the wives of foreign mission-
aries be active in the work the husbands are engaged in; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Mission Department at the St. Louis Sem-
inary co-operate with the respective mission boards in the training
of such wives and other women workers.

4. Wuergas, The expansion of the Missionary Department of
the Graduate School at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, to meet
present-day changed conditions and to utilize modern mechanical
missionary aids seems desirable and feasible, be it

Resolved, That the Missionary Department of the Postgraduate
School be expanded to include missionary courses such as these:
visual education mission; radio mission; billboard mission; tract
mission; personal evangelism; rural mission; trailer mission;
missions among the underprivileged in larger cities; institutional:
missions; colored missions; deaf and blind mission, ete.

_5. Pertaining to the matter of “strengthening the home church
and fields already occupied,” page 92, paragraph 2:

Wuereas, “Strengthening the home church,” etc. is defined as
“rallying the forces to greater missionary zeal in every church,
in every home, in every member”;

Wuereas, This missionary. zeal is intensified solely through the
preaching of the Gospel; be it

Resolved, That Synod urge its pastors to continue ‘to stress in
their sermons with ever-increasing intensiveness the work of mis=
sions; be it further

Resolved, That our teachers of our schools and ‘Sunday schools
use every opportunity to inculcate in the minds and hearts of our
children a missionary spirit.