# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S577
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FINANCIAL MATTERS 577

sonnel that is soundly and loyally Lutheran and well trained for
the specific service to be rendered.

3. Leadership in effecting economies and in strengthening gen-
erally the financial positions of the institutions and agencies.

4. Leadership in interpreting both to the clergy and to the
laity how the institutions and the agencies fit into the general
pattern of church work as carried on by Synod organically and
the member congregations locally.

5. Leadership for capitalizing on new opportunities such as are
now multiplying in the area of child welfare, the result of the
growing number of broken homes. The aggressiveness of the
Roman Catholic Church in seizing the new opportunities is only
too well known.

6. Leadership for providing Synod with up-to-date and exact
information on all phases of welfare work.

7. Immediate availability of leadership for setting up quickly
efficient agencies arid procedures with reference to suddenly devel-
oping situations such as the current Displaced Persons problem,
in which all sections of Synod will be involved.

8. Leadership in devising such working arrangements in ex-
ternis with non-Synodical Conference groups as will remove
duplication of effort and expense, adequately protect our interests,
and not involve us in unionistic practices.

9. Leadership in securing for our institutions and agencies
proper recognition in Community Chest programs.

10. A responsible voice to interpret the position of the Missouri
Synod to the Government. Since the Government is increasing
its scope of welfare activity both on a State-wide and national
basis, and contacts between the Government and the Church-
related agencies and institutions are multiplying, it is at times
necessary that the Church-related agencies speak as a united
group and as official representatives of the Missouri Synod. Up to
the present time the Missouri Synod agencies and institutions had
no right to do that. Nor any synodical official. Hence, our insti-
tutions and agencies have been compelled to speak only as indi-
vidual groups or attach themselves to some other church or
secular group as expediency dictated.

11. Leadership for preserving the Missouri Synod concept of
Christian welfare and for pointing out secularizing practices and
tendencies.

12. Leadership for the expanding chaplaincy service in the
Government hospitals and sanatoria for veterans, especially of
the liaison type.