# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S364
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

364 Miscellaneous Matters.

WuereaSs, The Department of Publicity and Missionary Educa
tion has during the past triennium carefully carried out the wishes’
of the Fort Wayne Synod with regard to Missionary Education and
Visual Education; ‘and a

Wuereas, This Department has produced and distributed the
sound film “The Power of God,” the first religious feature film
professionally produced by any Protestant Church body; and

Wuerzsas, “The Power of God” was most cordially received in.
3,000 showings and has elicited the highest praise not only in our
own Church, but also by our Government through its showing in
its Army and Navy camps in the United States and foreign coun-
tries and in hundreds of churches of other denominations, thus
giving our Church favorable and global publicity; and

Wuereas, This department has also produced and released
a new mission film, four new slide sets on missions, booked and
serviced many existing films and slides, previewed as to content.
and technical quality approximately 400.films, prepared a Visual
Aids Catalog and Supplement of some 300 films, instituted a plan
by which 250 circuits out of. Synod’s 318 have now appointed
Circuit Visual] Education Committees, taught a one-hour course in,
Audio-Visual Education in Concordia Theological Seminary, and
has been eminently successful in promoting and developing the.
cause of Missionary Publicity and Audio-Visual Education, assum-
ing a position of leadership in this field among the Protestant
churches of America; therefore be it

Resolved

1. That Synod express its deep gratitude to this Department
for its faithful, outstanding, and progressive past work and achieve-
ments; :

2. That this Department be encouraged and empowered to con--
tinue to develop and expand the Synodical Program of Missionary’:
and Audio-visual Education as directed by the Fort Wayne synod-.

ical resolutions.
. ACTION

These resolutions were adopted.
Creating a Board of Publicity

; (Memorial 515) wy
Wuereas, The Committee on Constitutional Matters at. the.

Cleveland convention of Synod in 1935 stated, “This Board [of: 2%

‘Directors] should concern itself only with the business. and. th
financial matters of Synod” (Proceedings, 1935, p. 188); and

Wuereas, Committee 15 of the same convention approved this.