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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 124

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124. Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth Regular Convention,

5. That the Secretary of Missions serve as an advisory member
on the Board of European Missions, on the Board of South American
Missions, on the Board of Foreign Missions, on the Board for Mis-
sions to the Deaf and Blind, and on the General Church Extension
Board;

6. That these resolutions be added to the regulations governing
the respective boards and that all stipulations in these regulations
which are not in agreement with these resolutions be and are hereby
repealed.

We believe that in this friendly way, as above mentioned, the
Secretary of Missions will present, for the present at least, a suf-
ficient agency of coordination between all-our ‘missions, and we may
see from time to time what further arrangement may be necessary.
We wish to avoid setting up a machinery on theory only. ,

Action of Synod.
This report was adopted.

Report of the General Church Extension Board.
(Memorial 305.)

The Church Extension Board of Synod is cognizant of having
had a considerably restricted activity during the triennium which is
covered by this report. We feel that we may best describe our policy
as one of meticulous anxiety and extraordinary care in the preser-
vation of Synod’s funds. During these three years 73 requests for
financial aid reached the Church Extension Board from our congrega-
tions and Districts. The total sum asked for was $397,638.26. The
number of petitions granted was 87, and the aggregate amount of
loans made during these three years was $141,923.97. It is quite
possible that members of Synod will come to the conclusion that the
Church Extension Board has fallen short of Synod’s expectations by
restricting its activities to this extent. Yet we feel sure that there
will be others who will commend our zealous care for the accumulated
money in the Church Extension Fund. We were confronted on every
hand by accounts of the dwindling resources of our congregations,
resulting in a decreased ability to make good their promises of pay-
ment. We found that congregations that had made substantial loans
on the strength of their undoubted ability to pay failed to raise the
necessary money; we saw glowing prospects for growth grow dim
through the storm of depression; in many cases we felt, after study-
ing the application for a loan very carefully, that the prospects for
repayment were not good and that it would be necessary to place the
congregation into the delinquent list almost at the very beginning;
a considerable number of applications had for their purpose the pay-
ing of debts made by the congregation, a type of loan disapproved by