# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S260
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

260 HIGHER EDUCATION

students in their seminary education with both their prayers
and their financial support.

Killarney Park Lutheran Church

Vancouver, B.C.

Ernie Perkins, President

E. Treit, Pastor

Identical or similar:

6-32B to 6-32E

Saviour, Delta, B.C.

Faith, Surrey, B.C.

St. Paul, Dawson Creek, B.C.
Redeemer, Edmonton, Alta.

Garwood Rentz
Norman Eifert
Jack Schram
Al Schmidt

6-33
To Establish Seminary in Western Canada

WHEREAS, The federation of the three Canadian Districts of
the LCMS (known as Lutheran Church—Canada) is to become
an autonomous church body in the near future; and

WHEREAS, One of the most pressing reasons for this action is
that the Lutheran Church—Canada may in its organization
and in its outreach be truly independent with the view that it
become ever more “Canadian”; and

WHEREAS, This need to be ‘“‘on its own” and to develop its
own, character will. to a large degree, depend on the training
received by its future pastors and missionaries; and

WHEREAS, The first steps toward this end have been taken
by St. Catharine’s seminary in Ontario; therefore be it

Resolved, That every encouragement be given the Lutheran
Church—Canada to establish a second seminary in western
Canada; and be it further

Resolved, That to hasten this objective the intent of Res.
6-04A be carried out.

Grace Lutheran Church
Port Alberni, B.C.

Ron Lacroft, Secretary
R. Tipton, Chairman

6-34
To Hold 6-04A (Saskatoon) in Abeyance

WHEREAS, The implementation by the Board for Higher
Education of synodical Res. 6-04A (1979) has created uncer-
tainty among Missouri Synod students at Lutheran Theo-
logical Seminary, Saskatoon, since there is as yet no decision
about the locale of their future training; and

WHEREAS, The 1980 conventions of both western Canadian
synodical Districts expressed in various ways dissatisfaction
with Res. 6-04A; and expressed continued interest in some form
of cooperative theological training in Saskatoon; and

WHEREAS, The theological education of Canadian pastors
ought to be the concern primarily of Canadian members of the
Synod, especially in view of impending sister-church status of
our Canadian Districts; therefore be it

Resolved, That the implementation of 1979 Res. 6-04A be
held in abeyance, until the Lutheran Church—Canada
achieves autonomy and becomes able to decide upon the future
course of theological education within its own jurisdiction.

Bethel Lutheran Church
Edmonton, Alta.
R. K. Duproe, President

6-35A
To Grant Four-Year Status with
Baccalaureate-Degree-Granting Privileges
to St. John’s College, Winfield

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has—

1) consistently stated its support of the colleges it main-
tains within its system of higher education’

2) recently referred to its schools as “gifts of God... .

involved in a great and joyful work vital to the life and future of
the church”;

3) encouraged the schools to develop for the membership of
the Synod a variety of educational programs for the prepara-
tion of church-vocation students, for the continuing education
of the church’s professional workers and laity, and for the
Christian education of all of its young people; and

WHEREAS, St. John’s College has been a pioneer inChristian
higher education in the Synod since the college entered into the
Synod’s system of higher education and, therefore, has a record
of tradition and experience in the character of education that
the Synod envisions for its members through its schools, and
seeks to continue its service in higher education to the Synod;
and

WHEREAS, St. John’s College has developed programs of
study for careers of Christian service in the church’s profes-
sional ministries and in other professions that have already
received the accreditation of the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools and which, with their distinctive
emphases, do not replicate program offerings of other synod-
ical schools; and

WHEREAS, The college continues to benefit from a successful
consortium arrangement that it has shared with Southwestern
College in Winfield since 1972, in a variety of cooperative
efforts; and

WHEREAS, The college now has a faculty that the North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools identifies as “very
competent people, dedicated to St. John’s and to the Lutheran
doctrine” and can advance to the status of a baccalaureate
degree-granting institution without major new expenditures in
funds for salary and benefits for the addition of faculty and
support personnel to offer the proposed programs of study; and

WHEREAS, The college has excellent debt-free physical facil-
ities for instruction and support purposes that “will serve
adequately for a college of 400—S00 students” (North Central
Association 1980 evaluation report) and has a campus that is
more than adequate to initiate the programs proposed for the
four-year programs; and

WHEREAS, The college now has moved to a position of fiscal
stability and anticipates significant increases in constituent
support over and above income from the synodical subsidy and
student fees; and

WHEREAS, The college has registered increases in the number
of new students enrolled for each of the past three terms; and

WHEREAS, The college is situated in a geographical area and
population distribution of the Synod’s membership that has
supported synodical education well in the past and that has the
population resources to support an enrollment that can make
the operation of the college a fiscally feasible alternative in
higher education; and

WHEREAS, The college enjoys the support of a well-estab-
lished alumni association, of the Districts of the Synod that
constitute the college’s primary recruitment and support area,
and of the community in which the college is located; and

WHEREAS, The college has the benefits of a community
setting that provides a desirable quality of life for students and
faculty; and

WHEREAS, The college has the financial-assistance pro-
grams to help students and their families to bridge the gap
between their resources for education and the cost of attending
college; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod extend to St. John’s College,
Winfield, Kans., through the college’s Board of Control, the
authorization to define itself as a baccalaureate-degree-
granting institution within The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod grant to the college the exercise of
such rights and privileges beginning with the 1981—82
academic year.

Board of Control

St. John’s College

Winfield, Kans.

Erwin Knocke, Chairman

John Bredehoft, Secretary
Gordon Beckler, Executive Officer