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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 122

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122 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

We herewith present a plan for unifying our Home Mission an¢
Church Extension work. Its aims are: —

1. To coordinate all Home Mission work’ and' Church Extension
work ; ae

2. To bring about essential amalgamation and obviate unneces-
sary expenditure of money and man-power;

3. To put into action a unified, systematic, and detailed survey
of the entire field;

4. To create expansion proportionate to true needs and financial
ability ;

5. To combine all District Church Extension funds with the
General Church Extension Fund and so make all Church Extension
funds available for mission-work throughout Synod.

The plan itself follows: —

1. The entire Home Mission work and management of all Church
Extension funds, also those of the individual Districts, shall be under
the direct control of Synod and not of the individual Districts of
Synod.

2. Synod shall divide the entire field into ten or more territories;
this division into territories may be changed at any time if necessary.

8. Synod, through its Board of Directors, shall appoint one
General Secretary of Home Missions and Church Extension and
territorial secretaries corresponding in number to the territories and
also fix the salary of these men.

4. These secretaries shall constitute the Board for Home Missions
and Church Extension, answerable to Synod through Synod’s Board
of Directors.

5. All money for Home Missions and Church Extension funds
shall flow into the treasury of Synod for these purposes and shall be
under the management of the newly created Board for Home Mission
and Church Extension, subject to the approval of Synod’s Board of
Directors.

6. The mission committees or the Board of Directors, as the case
may be, of the synodical Districts, shall function under the super-
vision of the respective territorial secretaries. They shall elect a con-
tact man with whom the territorial secretary may confer.

7. The territorial secretary shall exercise supervision over the
conduct of the work in existing mission-stations, over the opening of
new missions, and over loans and repayments of Church Extension
funds, much as some directors of missions now function in Districts
that have been operating under the guidance of a Director for Home
Missions and Church Extension.

8. The territorial secretaries shall be held responsible for the