LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1929, Page 96

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102 Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Regular Convention

Directors and the St. Louis faculty, was ordered by the last §

to make the necessary preparations for the specific training of va
sionary workers in foreign fields. Your Board therefore held seve an
meetings with the other boards to consider this matter. It was agreed
(1) that it is desirable that our missionaries who are going int
foreign fields should remain here another year to Prepare themselve
for their work; (2) that for this purpose a mission department shal
be arranged in the St. Louis Seminary as an experiment; (3) that
this would require an additional teacher at the Seminary,

decided to ask Synod to add such a professor to the fac
St. Louis, who could also be used for other lectures, even
professors might serve in the mission department.
Synod to grant this request.

In this connection the above-mentioned three boards algo con-
sidered the training of our woman workers and the future Wives of
our missionaries. The following plan was agreed upon: 1) A course
shall be arranged for the brides of our future missionaries
the nurses, teachers, and deaconesges who intend to enter
mission field, this course to extend over a year or more. 2) Doctor
Pieper’s former residence is to be placed at the disposal of the
Foreign Mission Board for this purpose. 3) Doctor Dau’s former
residence shall also be placed at the disposal of the missionboard as
the residence for the director of Foreign Missions or some other
person who will have the supervision of the training of woman
workers. These recommendations also are submitted to Synod for
ratification.

Your Board was asked by the last Synod to consider, together
with the brethren on the Pacifie coast, whether mission-work could
be started among the Asiatics of the Western coast. Careful in-
vestigation has shown that there are great opportunities for such
mission-work, which, however, would be very expensive. We hope that
Synod will undertake this work. In this connection we found that
there are many Mexicans in the Western part of our country who
are spiritually neglected.

It should be mentioned that during the past three years our field
in China has been visited, but not that of India. The intention is
to have the India mission-field visited in the near future, where dif-
ficult questions and problems must be considered and decided.

The work connected with the guidance of our foreign missions
has grown considerably, causing the Board and its esteemed director
much labor. In 1997 it was necessary to hold 47, and in 1928, 38 meet-
ings, besides the meetings of the plenary sessions.

As in former years, so also in the past triennium our sister
synods in the Synodical Conference and the brethren in Australia
and Europe have supported our mission-work with their gifts and
Prayers. We recommend that Synod extend to them a vote of thanks.

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We herewith ask

and for

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1929. 103

i t of missions was brought
matter concerning a departmen

: tae ynod also in Overture 131. (Cf. Reporis and Memorials,
“before
* 7 £.)

rarthermore the Mission Board of the Synodical Conference had

pmitted the following overture: —

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Mission in Africa.

The Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America, of which

Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States is a member, adopte
4 tion at the convention held in Omaha, Nebr., August 8 to 18,
‘ ne in tructing its Mission Board to submit the important question
1m, ms a mission in Africa to the various synods belonging to the
a retical Conference. This resolution is hereby being carried out
Segards our Missouri Synod. 1s doctrine

The wish and purpose to carry God’s Word and Luther 8 doctri

to the benighted pagans in Africa originated with the Christians
nn Colored Lutheran Missions. This wish and purpose is a natural
o ft f the preaching of the Gospel which our Synod, together with
the other synods of the Synodical Conference, has been doing among
the colored people of our country for half a century. At the General
Conference in 1925 the delegates of our colored conaregations haan
imously requested the Mission Board to submit to the Syne aan re
ference their earnest wish and desire to begin mission-wor on soo ce
To show the sincerity of their wish, they collected about , o
the work of investigation and exploration. The Synodical Con eren F
at its convention at Lockport, N. Y., was pleased to hear the reaues of
our colored fellow-Lutherans and instructed its Mission pare °
gather information for the proposed missionary enterprise in t ° ar
Continent. This was done, and a report was made at the Omaha

ion.
eee wow of the importance of the proposed mission and also in
view of the fact that the plan was not sufficiently known within ¢ °
synods composing the Synodical Conference, the latter body resolve
to submit this matter to the various synods, requesting their answer
in time for the next convention, in 1930.

As stated before, the plan to carry the light of the Gospel into the
Dark Continent originated with our colored Christians. They wou
like to have their brethren after the flesh over there hear the glad
sound of the Gospel of Christ, the Savior of mankind, and to be made
happy here and hereafter. However, they are not strong enous ra)
undertake the task themselves. They now number 6,006 sou * or
baptized members. They have also given about $4,000 for ne us ler
taking. But knowing that they are not able to earry the burden arenes
they come to their white fellow-Lutherans with the plea and peti on
to send messengers of the Gospel to the land of their fathers, promis