# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S258 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 258 HIGHER EDUCATION 6-25A To Establish “Shared Seminary” in Saskatoon WHEREAS, It is of vital interest to the churches that her pastors receive thorough training that is Scripturally grounded; and WHEREAS, The Manitoba and Saskatchewan District in convention assembled, May 1—4, 1980, resolved to seek . . . @ New permanent, independent and parallel seminary in Saskatoon, sharing facilities with the Lutheran Theological Semi- nary but having its own Board of Control to oversee every aspect of theological training: and WHEREAS, In response to this resolution, a task force was set up to work on a “Project Design” with this concept in mind; and WHEREAS, The task force has given sound directions on which we can proceed; therefore be it _ Resolved, That the appended ‘Project Design” be approved in principle; and be it further Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be in- structed to make the necessary arrangements to implement the proposed plan. Immanuel Lutheran Church Winnipeg, Man. Ken Burron, President Marilyn Doering, Secretary The document “Project Design” has been submitted to the floor committee.) Identical or similar: 6-25B to 6-251 St. Mark’s, Choiceland, Sask. K. Holmen Good Shepherd, Regina, Sask. Ronald Fink St. Paul’s, Saskatoon, Sask. Lowell Guebert Mount Calvary, Maple Creek, and Trinity, Fox Valley, Sask. Donald Jessop Redeemer, Sarnia, Ont. Peter McPhail St. John, Frobisher, Sask. Kuno Freitag Redeemer, Prince Albert, Sask. Alan D. Dick The Lutheran Church of Unity, Unity, Sask. John R. Nielsen 6-26A To Approve New Parallel Seminary in Saskatoon WHEREAS, There is an ongoing need for the theological training of pastoral candidates in Canada; and WHEREAS, In eastern Canada the Ontario District has a seminary training program; and _ WHEREAS, In western Canada a seminary training program is necessary; and WHEREAS, The Synod resolved in 1979 that the Canadian Districts implement a definite plan for the satisfactory and permanent arrangement for the education of pastoral candi- ates in western Canada priortothe 1981 convention; therefore elt Resolved, That the ‘Project Design for Saskatoon Semi- nary” be approved as the basis for a new, permanent, independent, and parallel seminary at Saskatoon; and be it further Resolved, That the implementation of this new seminary project begin immediately after approval by the Synod so that there will not be a loss of students; and be it finally Resolved, That the costs of maintaining this seminary program be borne by the budgets of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta and British Columbia Districts. Faith Lutheran Church Saskatoon, Sask. Alvin Miller, President Otto Frank, Secretary Identical or similar: 6-26B to 6-26G Mount Olive, Regina, Sask. A. I. Maasier Redeemer, Regina, Sask. Lloyd Dressler St. Peter’s, Edmonton, Alta. A. E. Sten Emmaus, Drayton Valley, Alta. E A. Eckert Christ Markerville, Alta. Terry Lutz Trinity, Wilkie, Sask. John Nielson 6-27 To Phase Out a Separate Seminary at St. Catharines, Ont. WHEREAS, Only 3 percent of the communicant members of the Synod’s North American Districts reside in the three Canadian Districts of the Synod; and WHEREAS, Operating a separate seminary in Canada is the equivalent of the U.S. Districts of the Synod attempting to operate 31 separate seminaries in the United States; and WHEREAS, The seminary at St. Catharines from its inception was never designed to serve the interests of our church in all of Canada but was shaped by the Ontario District alone, without formal consultation with any congregations or church leaders in the four western provinces of Canada; and WHEREAS, Further investment at St. Catharines will lock the Canadian Districts into an expensive and wasteful plan which squanders the resources of the members of the Synod in Canada and hinders our participation in world missions and home missions because of its large financial costs; and WHEREAS, Far superior alternatives to operating a separate seminary in Canada are available, such as the popular project design for a “new, permanent, independent and parallel seminary at Saskatoon”; and WHEREAS, This project design provides that our own professors will give Scripturally correct and doctrinally sound training to our own ministerial students while also allowing these professors the opportunity to share this excellent teach- ing with ministerial students of our sister synods who desire to take their classes; and WHEREAS, Inter-Lutheran seminaries function well in other Commonwealth countries such as Australia, and are able to operate without financial support from the Synod; and WHEREAS, A similar inter-Lutheran plan for seminary training in Canada is proportionate to our needs and makes the best use of our resources, assuring continued participation in world missions and home mission development, without draining off financial resources of the Synod at large; therefore be it Resolved, That the Synod in convention give its guidance concerning the future direction of seminary training in Canada by declining the plan to operate a separate seminary at St. Catharines; and be it further Resolved, That the Synod urge the Canadian Districts to formulate a suitable plan for seminary training in Canada, within the limits of indigenous support; and be it finally Resolved, That the Synod make temporary provision for continuation of seminary training in both eastern and western Canada until a unified plan for seminary training for all of Canada is agreed upon by the Canadian Districts. Redeemer Lutheran Church Regina, Sask. Lloyd Dressler, President 6-28A To Carry Out Saskatoon Resolution WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in its cotivention at St. Louis in 1979, Res. 6-04A, decided to phase out the involvement of our students at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, beginning with the 1981-82 academic year; and