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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1938, Page 150

Scan: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
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150 Missions in General

Resolved, That in this jubilee year the Board of Directors, in
consultation with the faculty of St. Louis and the Committee on
Higher Education, be instructed to establish a Department of
Missions at our St. Louis Seminary; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Control of our St. Louis Seminary
be authorized to call a qualified man to conduct this Mission
Department; and be it further

Resolved, That all newly called foreign missionaries take a
short postgraduate course in the practical requirements of their
respective fields; and be it finally

Resolved, That our Springfield faculty, in consultation with.
Synod’s Board for Higher Education, be requested to give this
special emphasis on missions due consideration.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.

Church Extension

Report of the Board
(Memorial 403)

“May God move the hearts of the members of the Church
Extension Board that they will understand our great need and
believe in our wonderful opportunities, so that they will grant us
the loan for which we ask to build a chapel in our very fine
mission-field!” These are the sentiments expressed, in one form
or another, when a congregation brings to a close its request for
aid from Synod’s Church Extension Fund. In all parts of Synod
and in all Districts our pastors and missionaries, our teachers and
other workers, and our members are striving to carry out Christ’s
command to preach the Gospel to all people. In many, many places
small groups of Christians are gathered together in such places as
they can find and use. They meet in basements and halls, in stores
and lodge-rooms, in court-houses and public-school buildings, in
Seventh-day Adventist churches and in. decrepit, abandoned
church-buildings, left over from unsuccessful attempts of other
church-bodies; they are enlivened with the hope that a small
chapel will guarantee the success of their venture; and they come
to Synod for help to build the house of worship they need. District
Mission boards deplore the necessity of paying rent year after year
for places of worship and come to us for funds. Synodical mission
boards apply for money to erect buildings. The office of Synod’s
Church Extension Board is a repository for the hopes and enthusi-
astic reports of mission ventures all over Synod. Much of the
human-interest element of a history of the progress of our Church
could be gathered from the correspondence files accumulated dur-