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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1935, Page 264

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264 Proceedings of Thirty-Sixth- Regular Conyention, -

respective departments. Extraordinary matters and such as are of
great importance, also the determining of general policies and prac-
tises, everything pertaining to the sending out of missionaries, re-
garding the territory in which they are to work, and the like, shall
be decided by the Board.

“4) A General Secretary of this Board shall be appointed by the
Board with the approval of the President of Synod. He shall devote
his entire time to the work of Foreign Missions and carry out the
resolutions of the Board. The Board shall also, after due consulta-
tion with the General Secretary, call and recall the missionaries.

“5) The General Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board
as well as of the subcommittees. Periodically he shall send informa-
tion and reports to all District representatives and the President of
the Norwegian Synod of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church,
since this body participates in our Foreign Mission work.

“6) In the time intervening between two meetings of the Synod
the Board may, if it is apparent that God is calling us to a new
field, also begin work in some other foreign territory (besides China
and India), provided that the President of the Synod, the Board of
Directors, and the Presidents of the Districts give their consent.

“7) The Board for Foreign Missions in conjunction with the
Board of Directors and the faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
Mo., is to make provisions for the more specific training of all foreign
missionaries.

“8) The Board together with the President of Synod shall also
as soon as practicable elect and call resident directors of missions for
our Foreign Mission fields, e.g., for India and for China, as well as
for any other countries that may be added.

“9) The Board shall appoint representatives from the clergy for
each District, whose business shall be to keep themselves informed on
our Foreign Mission work and to report on this work at District con-
ventions and conferences.

“All former regulations for this Board are herewith rescinded.”

6. In February, 1933, representatives of Radio Station KFUO
reported that the Federal Radio Commission threatened not to renew
permission to broadcast unless Synod, as the owner of the station,
would amend its charter to include among its purposes all phases of
radio broadcasting. After procuring legal advice, the Board was con-
vinced that it would be necessary to take this step immediately in
order that the blessed work of our station might not be stopped and
the property become useless. It was pointed out that in a similar
emergency in 1918 the officers of Synod took action by omitting the
word “German” from the charter, which action was ratified by the
Synod. The Board therefore amended the charter, adding at the end
of Article II the words “and that the Association may engage in all