# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S574
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574 FINANCIAL MATTERS

District. Under their guidance and with the consecrated efforts
of our special Stewardship Committee the threatening large deficit
for 1949 was held down to a comparatively small amount, and the
foundation was laid for better stewardship in the future. The
Board recommends to Synod to establish, on a permanent basis,
a Department of Stewardship and that the proper regulations for
this office be drawn up and embodied in the Handbook.

Resolution re Stewardship Secretary or Stewardship Department

Wuereas, The principle and practice of the stewardship of the
whole Christian life requires wider dissemination and implementa-
tion throughout our Church to enable her to fulfill her God-given
mission to an ever greater degree; and

Wuereas, The Special Fiscal Conference of Synod on Febru-
ary 2 and 3, 1949, urged the Board of Directors of Synod to “provide
a man whose special duties shall be those usually assigned to
a stewardship secretary”; and

Wuereas, The Board of Directors of Synod is persuaded that
the study and promotion of stewardship life is essential to the
over-all Kingdom program of our Synod; and

Wuergas, The promotion of stewardship, missionary education,
and publicity about the work of the Church are closely allied and
should be integrated and co-ordinated, therefore be it

Resolved, That all work coming under the classification of
stewardship, publicity, missionary education, and promotion be
merged in a department to be called the Department of Steward-
ship, Missionary Education, and Promotion;

That the Board of Directors be empowered to create such
secretaryships as are necessary to adequately staff this depart-
ment; and

That the Department of Stewardship, Missionary Education,
and Promotion shall be responsible to the Board of Directors for
the conduct of its work.

5. Special Collections.—To revert to the Centennial Thank-
offering and the Peace Thankoffering, collected during the previous
triennium, your Board was conscientiously concerned about ad-
ministering the remaining funds within the framework of the
allocations made (cf. Proceedings, 1947, page 578), so that the
moneys so liberally contributed by our people continue to serve
their purpose. As to the collection for the most necessary items
in our building program, including the building grants made . by
the last convention, the original goal of $1,500,000 had to be raised
to $2,050,000, with the consent of the Fiscal Conference. This