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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1926, Page 90

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90 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

5. Eastern 2.0.0... ccc ec cee eee eee ee nene 7,000.00
6. English (parish-schools) ................04. 4,000.00
7. Manitoba and Saskatchewan ............ .. 25,000.00
8. North Dakota and Montana .............. 20,000.00
9. Oklahoma ........ ccc cece eee eee 7,000.00
10. Ontario 1.0... . cc eect ee tenes 3,000.00
ll. Oregon and Washington .................. 20,000.00
12, Southern (Cuba, Isle of Pines, Porto Rico).. 18,200.00
13. Texas (also Mexico) ........... cece eee ee 28,000.00

$222,200.00

Synod adopted this recommendation.

Report of General Home Missions Committee.
(Memorial No. 314 from the Northwestern Conference of the English

; District. )

“Believing that our Home Mission work is our most important
work, —- and it has been proved that we are not. measuring up fully to
our missionary opportunities ; — ,

“Furthermore, believing that our work could be furthered by.
working toward a universal mission policy for all our Districts, which
would make for greater efficiency and missionary aggressiveness, we
propose the creation of a General Home Missions Committee (Com-
mittee on Evangelism), whose duties shall be: —

“a) To investigate and supervise complete missionary surveys of
the mission-field, the gathering of reliable, data, information, and
statistics ;

“b) To disseminate regularly the gathered information together
with the proper inspirational material, preferably through suitable
printed matter;

“e) To act in an advisory capacity toward the various District
mission boards;

“d) To issue proper material for missionary work in the local
congregation and offer suitable suggestions of aggressive congrega-
tional work;

“e) To keep the, work of Home Missions before the general con-
ventions of Synod as a topic of regular discussion by complete reports
and recommendations.

“We recommend that this committee be: elected by Synod.”

By way of answer to the request for a General Home Missions
Committee it was pointed out that a man had been added to the
Fiscal Office for the very purpose of doing the things advocated in
this memorial.

A memorial from the Minnesota District presented the following
plan for carrying on mission-work with greater efficiency : —

1. Synod to create a board, consenting of seven members: chair-
man, secretary, two laymen, three directors of missions, one for each
of the following groups of Districts: —