# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S50
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50 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Saginaw, Mich, (see Proceedings, 1944, p. 47), granted the request
of the Board of Control of Concordia Seminary for a chapel for
Concordia Seminary. No funds have been allocated for this
purpose. We herewith request Synod to allocate funds for a chapel,
for which funds were collected in the Thankoffering for Peace.

IV. Our Mission Department has made wonderful progress
in the short period of its existence; but much remains to be done.
The Lutheran Church in America needs a mission school equal in
scope and character to the Kennedy School of Missions at Hartford,
Connecticut, or similar schools. The Kennedy School of Missions
draws its students from all Protestant denominations in America
and from other countries, including Lutheran missionaries and
missionaries of our own Synod. The Kennedy School is well-
equipped, has a very competent staff of professors and instructors,
fourteen in number, excellent housing facilities for the missionary
students and their families, and a magnificent library. The
theology of Kennedy, however, is not Lutheran. There is room
for a Lutheran school of missions in America today. We have
a good start, but will miss a wonderful opportunity if we do not
go ahead with determination at this time.

If our Department of Missions is to become a recognized school
of missions which will attract Lutheran missionaries on furlough
and provide our future missionaries with the training equivalent
to that offered at Kennedy, we must expand our present depart-
ment and provide opportunities equivalent to those now offered
at Kennedy. We, therefore, humbly request:

1. Adequate housing facilities for missionaries and their families.

2. To increase the annual appropriation to the Pritzlaff
Memorial Library so that the Mission Department section of the
same may be built up. An increase of $500 annually is requested
for a period of ten years for this purpose.

3. To grant the Board of Control power to engage additional
help for the Mission Department as this help is needed.

V. By synodical resolution the administration officers (presi-
dent and dean) are not to be burdened with much work in
instruction, and professors attaining the age of sixty-five are to
have their teaching load reduced. Experience has taught that
a class load of ten hours per week in lecture courses is normal
and eight hours per week is amply sufficient in courses which
require much correcting of papers, as, e.g. Homiletics. It must
also be borne in mind that the faculty members are charged with
the editorial work of Der Lutheraner, The Lutheran Witness, and
the Concordia Theological Monthly, and must read censorially all