# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S603
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FINANCIAL MATTERS 603

9. The problem is: to bring the need into the consciousness of
everyone whom God expects to help meet that need.

10. With the help of God this can be done. No one has any
doubt of this. Everyone will agree that if we can put the story to
our people, our people will respond gladly.

11. Therefore the question is not whether or not it should be
done, but how to do it.

12. An ever larger group of our laity is expecting a real chal-
lenge for Kingdom work from the leaders of the Church. One of
the growing demands of our laity is that we draw it closer into
the work and delegate to it more responsibility.

13. The time is propitious for the inauguration, during the next
triennium, of a lay movement which will have as its goal the col-
lection of a Ten Million Dollar Mission and Education Fund.

14. God expects our Church to go to His people — and straight-
way we shall find the funds. We need to loose them and bring
them to our Lord. “And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall
say, ‘The Lord hath need of them.”

15. Keenly conscious that our Church looks to its chosen
officers, especially the Praesidium and the synodical Board of
Directors, to blaze an ever widening trail in an ever increasing
forward tempo in these latter days; and

motivated by the command of our Lord and Savior “to go and
preach”; and

urged on by the desperate need of man for the message of
God’s reconciliation to man by His Son Jesus Christ; and

encouraged by the glorious response of an ever increasing
number of our Christians who are giving more time, talent, and
treasure for Kingdom work; and

challenged by God’s sure promises to attempt to reach out to
ever wider Kingdom horizons; we

the synodical Board of Directors of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod submit to Synod in convention assembled in Mil-
waukee, 1950, the following resolutions for adoption:

16. WHereas, During the past four-year period from 1946 to
1949 our members gave for non-budgeted, missionary, educational,
and relief projects the sum total of $11,500,000; and

17. WHErEas, These moneys were made available to the church
at large by the Peace Thankoffering, the Centennial Collection,
the Building for Tomorrow Collection, and Relief Funds; and

18. Wuergas, The above total of $11,500,000 does not include the
sum of approximately $25,000,000 given by our people through
non-synodical channels for war relief —nor additional millions of