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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1941, Page 408

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400 Miscellaneous

1. No grants are to be made for District projects that neces-
sitate a permanent subsidy from the fund. ,

2, No grants should be made to cover deficits or shortages in
District treasuries.

3. While projects shall be decided upon, no grants or appropria-
tions should be made in anticipation of available funds.

4. After grants have been made, the responsibility of the Dis-.
trict Committee and the District FLW ceases.

SET-UP OF GROUPS AND THEIR DUTIES

We petition Synod to endorse the following details according
to which the plan is to be carried on in the congregational groups,
in the Districts, and in Synod.

Congregational Group. — This is the basic group of the entire
plan. A congregational group is formed by the existing ladies’ aid
society or some other group of women within a congregation when
that ladies’ aid society or some other group decides by resolution —
having before obtained permission of the congregation to do so—
to become the agency through which the work is carried on and by
electing officers to carry on the work of the FLW in their respective
congregations,

It shall be a duty of the congregational group to hold regular
meetings, not less than one every three months, the chief feature
of which shall be the study period according to an outline published. ~
in the quarterly or some other publication or based on some
Bible-story.

Nore. — Programs for such congregational group meetings are to be
published in the quarterly. In a general way these meetings should
follow the following program:

Opening hymn.

Prayer.

Reading of minutes by the local secretary.

Study period. ‘.

Special feature, such as missionary playlet, talk by missionary, etc.

Closing devotional exercises.

A further duty of the officers of the congregational group shall
be to cause to be distributed among the women of the congregation
mite-boxes or other coin-saving devices, to be used by them as
depositories for their contributions at the rate of two cents a week.
The contents of the saving devices are to be collected by the so-
called visitors and remitted by them to the treasurer of the ladies’
aid society, who, in turn, shall remit the total amount to the con- .
gregational treasurer, and he, in turn, is to remit the moneys to the
District Treasurer, earmarking the money for proper credit. And
finally it shall be the duty of the local officers to cause to be dis-