# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S260
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262 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Synod to Help Valparaiso Erect Chapel
(Memorial 154)

The East Michigan Pastoral Conference (the Reverend Louis
Heinecke, chairman), regularly asssembled in session at Bethel
Lutheran Church, Detroit, Mich., on April 16, 1947, duly resolved
to petition the Secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
Missouri, Ohio, and Other States to prifit the following overture
in the forthcoming Book of Overtures, which overture the con-
ference also unanimously endorsed: *

WuerEAs, Valparaiso University is engaged in a long-range
building program which will serve several thousand sons and
daughters of members of Synod; and

Wuereas, An appropriate chapel is an essential part of the
Program of the school and should receive the encouragement of
Synod; and

Wuereas, A chapel would be a visible symbol of Synod’s
interest in a thoroughly Lutheran training of its sons and
daughters; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the District Chairmen of Valparaiso Uni-
versity, in convention assembled at Valparaiso on Aug. 8, prayer-
fully request the Synod to assist the Lutheran University Associa-
tion in its building program by a direct appropriation from the
Centennial Collection for the erection of a chapel to memorialize
the founders of our beloved Church; and be it further

Resolved, That we commend the University to the prayers
and continued interest of Synod,

Tae East Mrcnican Pastorat CONFERENCE
LotHar KiEInmans, Secretary .

Practically the same memorial was submitted as No. 155 by the
district chairmen of Valparaiso University and endorsed by Pastor
F. W. Weidmann.

Committee 1 brought in the following recommendation:

“Inasmuch as Valparaiso University is receiving extensive sup-
port from our people through present channels, Committee 1 re-
spectfully recommends to the honorable convention that these
memorials petitioning for direct synodical help be declined.”

ACTION
Synod adopted this recommendation.