# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S261
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HIGHER EDUCATION 261

Identical or similar:

6-35B to 6-35 Y

Faculty, St. John’s College, Winfield, Kans. Gordon Beckler
Trinity, Winfield, Kans. Martin Pullmann
St. Luke’s, Bazine, Kans. Ronald Hampsten
Board of Mission Directors, Kansas Dist. George Bruening
St. John’s, Covington, Okla. Rene Eggers
Immanuel, Oakley, Kans. Car] Harson Jr.
St. Andrew’s, Wichita, Kans. Arno H. Meyer
St. Matthew’s, Nortonville, Kans. David E. Meier

Immanuel, Canton, Kans. Eldon Otte
Immanuel, Norton, Kans. LeRoy Deines
Grace, McPherson, Kans. J. A. Hofius
Christ, Hutchinson, Kans. Ron Hummel
Immanuel, Breckinridge, Okla. Glen Kroll

Roger Hotopp
Roger Hotopp

Trinity, McFarland, Kans.
St. John, Alma, Kans.
Calvary, Wellington, and

Zion, Argonia, Kans.
Christ, Augusta, Kans.
Redeemer, Arkansas City, Kans.
Holy Cross, Wichita, Kans.
St. John’s, Moundridge, Kans.
Zion, Hiawatha, Kans.
St. Paul’s, Cheney, Kans.
Holy Cross, Dodge City, Kans.
Teachers Conference of Kansas District

6-364

Robert Hoover
Arnold Studtmann
Robert Hobus
Victor Gradert
Myron Fensky
Eugene Juergensen
Car] Koster Jr.
Chuck Groth

Del Mau

To Grant Winfield’s Request

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 and that it may exercise such rights and
privileges beginning with the 1981—82 academic year.

St. John’s Lutheran Church
Nashville, Kans.

Edwin C. Steffer, Elder
George Westermann, Elder

Identical or similar:

(6-36B to 6-36F)

Trinity, Medicine Lodge, Kans.
St. Peter, Holyrood, Kans.

Our Redeemer, Herington, Kans.
Concordia, Hoisington, Kans.
Zion, Montrose, Colo.

Lloyden Dicke
Milton Tritsch
Gottfried Press
I. C. Walter
Edmund Althaus

6-37

To Promote Innovation in Recruitment
and Training of Church Leaders

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has
undertaken an ambitious program called Forward in Remem-
brance to fulfill Christ’s command to make disciples of all
nations; and

WHEREAS, The LCMS can point to only limited success in
recruiting minorities to serve as leaders to bring the saving
Gospel to their people; and

WHEREAS, Even now only 200 graduates of all races were
prepared for placement in 1981; and

WHEREAS, It is unreasonable to expect people to move to
vastly different sections of our nation to prepare for ministry;
and

WHEREAS, The church seems to many to be concerned only
with the maintenance of the status quo; therefore be it

Resolved, That vastly new techniques of recruitment and
training be implemented in our great population centers across
our nation; and be it further

Resolved, That local experts in various fields be used in the
training of these leaders. For example, evangelists, counselors,
educators, chaplains, and so forth, as are already in residence

in the various cities (clinics, universities) without construction
of further facilities.

Trinity Lutheran Church

Waterville, Kans.

Charles Johannes, President

Curtis Melcher, Pastor

6-38A

To Provide All Funding for Colleges
and Seminaries and Scholarships
to Needy Students Qualified
and Dedicated to Full-Time Church Work

WHEREAS Inflation and other factors have caused the cost
of education at our synodical schools of higher learning to
escalate, often beyond the means of many of our members; and

WHEREAS, Lower-income family members might be denied
the opportunity to serve in full-time church work, although
highly qualified and motivated; and

WHEREAS, There will be an expanding need for pastors,
missionaries, and teachers as our “Forward in Remembrance”
program accelerates during the coming years; and

WHEREAS, The trend toward greater solicitation of funding
by individual colleges and seminaries is not in the best interest
of these institutions and our Synod, since such solicitations
could result in inequities of funding because of different public
relations programs, also resulting in too much independence
for these institutions as they go their separate ways; and

WHEREAS, It is the Synod’s duty to support all its institu-
tions, students, and instructors, with such support coming
from “Forward in Remembrance” and normal funding: there-
fore be it

Resolved, That all our institutions of higher learning be
encouraged to practice true stewardship of available funds;
and be it further

Resolved, That training for full-time church service be
available to all members of the Synod regardless of financial
status, with invitations for such service extended to all; and be
it further

Resolved, That our colleges and seminaries be discouraged
from the independent solicitation of funds and that the Synod
assume full responsibility for the funding of these institutions,
including scholarships of up to 75 percent of the total cost of
such education for highly qualified and dedicated students
who can assume at least 25 percent of such costs, those
students having pledged to enter and remain in full-time
church work for at least five years; and be it finally

Resolved, That our colleges and seminaries be expanded to
such an extent that all calls for pastors, missionaries and
teachers can be answered and satisfied.

St. John Lutheran Church,
Owensville, Mo. (Drake)
Paul B. Johnson, Secretary

Identical or similar:

6-38B
Bethel, Westmont, IIl. Roger Zink

6-39

To Inform the Synod Concerning
the Financial Condition of Our
Synodical Colleges and Act Accordingly

WHEREAS, The colleges of our Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod have been encouraged by the Synod to continue their
work and even to expand into four-year colleges while receiving
less and less of their financing from synodical subsidies; and

WHEREAS, Colleges therefore are forced to raise their funds
elsewhere, even considering government aid, thereby threaten-
ing both the doctrinal integrity and independence of the
college; and