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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1938, Page 149

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Missions in General 149

Committee 2 also brought in the following resolutions on
salaries:

Resolved, That Synod encourage the various boards to set
a good example to the Districts and congregations of Synod in
striving to attain a Scriptural principle of proper support of its
missionaries; and be it further

Resolved, That in determining the salaries of missionaries the
board continue equitably to take into account prevailing conditions.

Resolved, That Synod approve the opinion of the Fiscal Con-
ference that whenever possible the increase of salary come from
within, that, however, where this is not possible, the board by
special bonuses or otherwise make necessary adjustments.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.

Pensions
Committee 2 reported:
Your Committee concurs in the opinion voiced in the Report
of the Secretary of Missions in this matter (par. 26, p. 116):

“In accordance with the resolutions passed at the Fiscal Con-
ference in September, 1937, the majority of District mission boards
urged their subsidized congregations to assume the responsibility
of making Pension Plan payments for their workers. In order
to simplify matters, the subsidized parishes were informed that
pension payments were an allowable budget item, which they
might include in their annual financial statement presented at
the time when the request for subsidy is made.” By such pro-
cedure the congregations will be trained to recognize more and
more their obligations to their pastors and to Synod.

Action of Synod: This report was adopted.

Preliminary Training of Missionaries

Concerning this matter, mentioned in Memorial 401, pp. 117—~
118, Committee 2 brought in the following resolutions:

Wuergas, Mission-work is the primary business of our Church,
and our jubilee year should offer a special inducement for a more
. efficient training of missionaries; and

Whereas, The experience of many church-bodies is that can-
“didates for mission-fields are better equipped to carry on their
- work if they have been specifically prepared for it; and

Whereas, Synod, the Board of Directors, the Board of Foreign
Missions, and the Faculty of St. Louis are all convinced of the
lesirability of additional, specific training, as shown by the Synod-
‘ical Commission of 1926 and by the minutes of a joint meeting on
anuary 22, 1929, of the three groups mentioned; therefore be it