# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S421
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b. provide counsel and materials for congre-
gations as they endeavor to enlist the talents of
their members for Kingdom service in and through
their congregations;

c. plan and make available to the congregations

an ongoing program of mission education and °

thereby develop a missionary concern;

d. interpret the Synod’s purpose and program
to the members of the congregations for the purpose
of developing an ever greater appreciation of what
the Synod means to them and a growing realization
of the many services it renders (internal public re-
lations);

e. aid pastors and congregations in teaching

their members effectively the grace of proportionate |

giving as well as counseling congregations how to
practice proportionate (corporate) giving:

f. encourage congregations regularly, ade-
quately. and generously to support their pregram
through District and the Synod;

g. provide congregations with the necessary

materials to conduct an effective annual every-
member stewardship visit;

h. evaluate professional and voluntary capital
fund-raising services and programs offered to, or
provided for, the congregations of the Synod and
its Districts;

i. study and evaluate contemporary trends in
voluntary giving to agencies and projects within the
Synod and its Districts;

j. have the primary responsibility for correlat-
ing all special fund-raising programs designed for
the support of the Synod and its programs;

k. provide consultative services to the Board of
Directors of the Synod or of its Districts for special
appeals for capital and operating funds by various
agencies, auxiliaries, and institutions in keeping
with the approved policies of the Synod’s boards
and to make recommendation to the Board of Direc-
tors upon their request.

1. provide information and counsel regarding
the overall synodical program at the work program
and budget-setting meetings of the Synod and its
- Districts;

m. devise and promote a Synodwide program of
deferred giving and large gift solicitation in the
interest of the Synod’s work in cooperation with
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod Founda-
tion;

n. devise and promote synodical projects of an
ongoing nature which can be supported oy auxil-
iaries of the Synod;

0. coordinate the development of the deferred
giving programs of the synodical institutions, agen-
cies, and auxiliaries, in cooperation with The Lu-
theran Church —- Missouri Synod Foundation, but
not to include sponsor or similar type programs of
auxiliaries.

15.09 Implementation

In order to carry out its functions, the board
shall —

a. seek to achieve definite and recognized work
relationships with those departments of the Synod
whose cooperation is vital to its program:

b. plan and prepare an adequate program;

ec. look to the President of the Synod and his

assistants to channel its program to and through
the Districts to the congregations of the Synod;

d. periodically conduct stewardship conferences
on a Synodwide and:or regional basis;

e. counsel with District Presidents and District
stewardship leaders:

c. provide, in consultation with Districts, materials
and training events to aid Districts, pastors, and
congregations in effectively teaching the grace of
proportionate giving and in promoting their program
in the congregation and through the District and the
Synod;

In the area of deferred giving the Depart-
ment shall:

a. devise Synod-wide programs of deferred
giving, including legacies, bequests, devises,
endowments, and other trusts for the advance-

ment, promotion, endowment, and maintenance