LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1923, Page 32

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" District mission boards to take part in this conference ;

82 Proceedings of Thirty-Second Regular Meeting,

children in parochial schools, an increase of 999 3 15,879 Sun,
school pupils, an increase of 9,079. 531 workers are engaged in’
mission-work of the twenty Districts reporting. The total an
disbursed to 11 Districts and 2 missions was $274,094.51,

’ AcTIon.
Synod resolved —

1. To continue the annual mission conferences and to urge

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2. To call upon individual Districts regularly and Punctually Pe
send their reports; : ES
3. To encourage all Districts to collect for the General Missig
Treasury just as well as for the District Mission Treasury ;
4. To encourage all Districts to appoint a District Director.
Missions, either alone or in conjunction with a neighboring District
5. To postpone, for the present, the appointment of one or mo a
general Directors of Missions. =
6. The President ig to appoint a committee of three which ig £2
concern itself with the spiritual welfare of students from our ci;
who are attending non-Lutheran institutions. Said committee is 4
ascertain, as definitely as possible, the names and addresses of theag
students together with other pertinent facts and deliberate on bev
to meet the situation. , oo

8. From time to time said committee is to send the informatio
it has gathered to the District mission boards and to pastors and con
ferences to whom it may ‘be serviceable, “4

9. All pastors are to be earnestly requested to assist the comm
mittee in obtaining this information. ¥

10. This committee is to obtain information on student work as
carried on by other church-bodies. oo Z

11. The Board of Directors is to be authorized to pay the expenseg
incurred by this committee and to receive contributions for thik
purpose.

General Church Extension Fund.
_ Report of the Board, Condensed. Germ. Rep., p. 89.)

The offering lifted in the Jubilee Year, 1922, for this treasu
amounted to $67,899.85, bringing the total capital to $858,000. hiag
money is at present-loaned to 320 congregations. Since 1902, wher
the fund was begun, 367 congregations have been supported to thee
extent of $1,025,000. These congregations are spread over almost s
States of the Union and Canada; but also ‘England and Cuba
represented. 284 churches, : 18 schools, and 65 Parsonages were com