LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 81

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Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 81°

Budget for Church Extension Fund.
The committee reported: “With reference to the future needs of
e convictions of the Committee on

aig fund we fully agree with th
‘Appropriations “hat Synod’s greatest need is the expansion of its
pissions:

«Since, furthermore, the success of our missionary activity will

depend to a large degree upon the ability of the Church Extension
Board to furnish our missionaries with chapels, and since, in fact,
every phase of our present situation in Synod calls for a constaritly
jncreasing activity of the General Church Extension Board, your

in agrees with the Committee on Appropriations ‘that

‘Committee aga «3
Synod will need to appropriate much of its resources for mission and

church extension.’
“Therefore, trying to accommodate ourselves to the program of
d,— though we are

the Committee on Appropriations, we recommen
-< gware of the fact that the Church Extension Fund could indeed well
of $900,000 asked for the next three years, —

propriate at least the $300,000 the Committee on

~ yse the entire sum
: “That Synod ap
Appropriations gees available.”
This report was adopted.

Welfare Work at Universities and Institutions
of Higher Learning.

Concerning this matter the Board of Home Missions in North

America submitted the following report: —

Synod, at jts last convention, adopted a resolution to the
effect that the Student Welfare Committee, consisting of Revs.
Ad. Haentzschel, G. Stiegemeyer, and Prof. Heimlich, jointly with
the Board of Home Missions in North America, call a Student Field
Secretary, who shall devote his full time to general student work
ander the supervision. of the Student Welfare Committee. When
an attempt was made to carry out Synod’s will, difficulties were en-
countgzed. It was found that the appropriation of $5,000 made for
this purpose lacked the modifying term “per annum” or per “tri-
ennium.” Synod’s Board of Directors interpreted the sum to mean
$5,000 per triennium. Having therefore but $1,750 annually at our
disposal for this purpose, the plan to call a Student Field Secretary

had to be abandoned. Soon thereafter the Student Welfare Com-

mittee tendered its resignation to the Ven. President of Synod, who
Missions temporarily to take care

then appointed the Board of Home
of this work.
We have done for this cause wh

Student

at under the circumstances could

be done. We instructed the District mission boards to minister to
the spiritual needs of students wherever possible; we also took
a census of this work, which can be read, if so desired; and we

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