# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S211
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 217

er, the institutions were to wait until these funds can be
aected, then the needs already recognized and the grants made
© the 1947 convention could not be applied for still another four
by On the basis of a careful resurvey of the entire situation,
the Board for Higher Education is convinced of both the moral
obligation and of the educational necessity involved, and it recom-
mends, therefore, , . : :

That a sum up to $500,000 be made available for immediate
allocation for these purposes; and the Board recommends further,

That this sum be advanced from the current reserve of Synod;
and we recommend further,

That the first receipts of any educational collection during the
next triennium be assigned for repayment of any sums advanced;
and we recommend finally,

That any educational projects involved shall be authorized by
the Board of Directors only upon the expressed approval of the
Board for Higher Education.

Section D. A Proposed Schedule for Reorganization,
Fund-Raising, and the Establishment
of a Senior College

The Board for Higher Education is profoundly convinced that
our Church is face to face with a genuine crisis in its program of
ministerial and teacher training. oY

During the past two decades we have permitted a mounting
accumulation of unmet needs. We are faced today, therefore, with
a combination of this accumulated financial backlog, with the
immediate expansion program to meet our current shortages and
our future volume requirements for trained workers, and with the
synodical resolution calling for the achievement of higher standards
of ministerial training through the addition of a senior college.

Your Board for Higher Education sees no alternative to an
immediate and determined effort to solve this combination of crucial
problems, since our failure to do so will inevitably, as far as human
beings can see, have a tragic effect on every existing and future
undertaking of our Synod.

The Board’s report presents a detailed analysis of our present
situation and proposes an adequate solution. The following perti-
nent factors which summarize the extremely complex and inter-
related considerations developed in the Board’s extensive report
deserve careful appraisal:

1. Every phase of our work as individual congregations and

as a Synod depends, under God, on an adequate supply of
Properly trained workers.