# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S184
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184 RESOLUTIONS

Resolved, That the Board for Professional Education
Services continue at this time to supervise the operation
of the colleges and seminaries of the Synod; and be it
further ,

' Resolved, That the Commission on Structure care-
fully consider the special needs of seminary education,
in consultation with the President’s Commission on
Higher Education; and be it further

Resolved, That the Commission on Structure con-
sider in particular how a separate Board for Pastoral
Ministry or a combined Board of Regents might enhance
or detract from the goals established by the President’s
Commission on Higher Education; and be it further

Resolved, That in the interim the Board for Profes-
sional Education Services establish a standing commit-
tee on pastoral ministry; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Board for Professional Education
Services assign a staff person with expertise in semi-
nary theological education to serve such a standing
committee.

Action: Adopted (12).

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To Create Standing Committee
on Continuing Education

RESOLUTION 5-12

Report 5-02, II, O(CW, p. 195); Overture 5-68 (CW,
p. 231)

WHEREAS, Continuing education is receiving major
emphasis in our day; and

WHEREAS, This should hold true also of our profes-
sional church workers; therefore be it

Resolved, That a Standing Committee on Continuing
Education be added to the list of standing committees of
the Board for Professional Education Services in Bylaw
2.235; and be it further

Resolved, That the following paragraph be inserted
in Bylaw 2.233 of the same board:

PROPOSED WORDING

o) encourage and monitor continuing education
programs for professional church workers, devise a
well-planned program to attract all synodical work-
ers, and stimulate congregations to encourage their
workers to participate in such programs.

Action: None.

To Create Standing Committee
on Colleges

RESOLUTION 5-13

Overtures 5-48—5-51 (CW, pp. 224—226)

WHEREAS, The Board for Professional Education
Services has been asked to establish a Standing
Committee on Continuing Education and a Standing
Committee on Theological Education; and

WHEREAS, There is a large volume of work involved
in the direction of the colleges of the Synod; therefore be
it

Resolved, That the BPES arrange for a standing
committee on the colleges of the Synod, thereby creating
a standing committee for each of its three major
programs: Continuing Education, Colleges, and Theo-
logical Education.

Action: None.

To Provide for Formation
of an Autonomous Partner Church
in Canada

RESOLUTION 5-14
Overture 5-17 (CW, pp. 216—217)

WHEREAS, Previous conventions of the Synod have
repeatedly encouraged Lutheran Church—Canada to
move toward autonomy and partner church status (e.g.,
1962, Cleveland, 6-36; 1965, Detroit, 4-28; 1969, Denver,
4-13); therefore be it

Resolved, That the Lutheran Church—Canada be
commended for its steps toward formation of a partner
church; and be it further

Resolved, That the Lutheran Church—Canada be
urged to prepare and submit to the Commission on
Theology and Church Relations, the Commission on
Constitutional Matters, the Board for Mission Services,
and the Board of Directors of the Synod a constitution
and bylaws for the proposed partner church; and be it
further

Resolved, That the proposed constitution and bylaws
of the Lutheran Church—Canada be so consistent with
the present stance of The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod that the present members of the Canadian
Districts would desire to become members of the
Lutheran Church—Canada; and be it further

Resolved, That Lutheran Church—Canada provide
for a vigorous program of presentations to be made to
each of its local congregations before the Canadian
Districts request dissolution by the Synod, so that
individual pastors and lay people may clearly under-
stand and discuss strengths and weaknesses of the
proposed autonomy; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod express its willingness to
dissolve its Canadian Districts upon the completion of
the plans for the formation of the Lutheran Church—
Canada; and be it further

Resolved, That the convention approve, in principle,
the following procedures:

1983, July—The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
in convention requests the Commission on Theology
and Church Relations, the Commission on Constitu-
tional Matters, the Board for Mission Services, and the
Board of Directors to keview the constitution and con-
fessional base of the proposed autonomous church.