# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S476
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488 MISSIONS

into operation be provided by the Board of Directors of Synod;
and be it finally

Resolved, G. That Synod express its joy over the fact that an
ever-increasing number of lay people are manifesting an interest in
serving the Church on a full-time basis, and that it stand ready
to offer guidance to these people and use them wherever Possible.

Allocating More Budget Money for Missions
(Memorial 416)

Wuereas, “A very considerable portion (32 per cent) of the
preparatory facilities of Synod’s institutions and of the energies of
their faculties and administrators is devoted to the training of
students who are not preparing for professional service in the
church” (Fiscal Conference, Minutes, February, 1949, p.11); and

Wnuereas, “If the present structure and organization of our
educational. facilities are accepted as unalterable, an expenditure
of seven million dollars for plants in the next few years and a
minimum of one and one-half million dollars yearly for operation
and maintenance must be met” (ibid., p.11); and

Wuereas, Synod in 1988 did permit “a further experiment in
general higher education and coeducation” “apithout additional net
cost to Synod” (Proceedings, 1938, p. 40; emphasis in the original);
and Wuereas, Synod “regularly appropriates synodical funds for
the purpose which the resolution forbids” (Fiscal Conference,
Minutes, February, 1949, p. 42); and

Wuereas, Our Synod is thus spending millions of dollars, not
merely to prepare ministers and teachers, but also to educate young
men and women under the direction of the Church; and

Wuereas, Not even one half of Synod’s 1950 budget is allocated
for the cause of missions (cf. Fiscal Conference, Minutes, Sep-
tember, 1949, p.127); now therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod reconsider its policy of appropriating
such great funds for the education of those young men and women
who ‘are not preparing themselves for professional service in the
Church, curtail its overhead expenses, and use more and more of
its available resources for mission work.

(Signed) (Dr.) P. E. Krerzmann, Cuba, Mo.

Zion Ev, Lurseran Cxurcs, Cxtcaco, Itt.
Cart G. Kruse, Pastor

Signatures attested by (Rev.) H. D. MENSING
Tinley Park, Ill, April 5, 1950

MISSIONS 489

ACTION

By adopting the report of Committee 11 on this matter, Synod
rejected this memorial in the form of the following resolution:

Resolution 13

Your Committee reports that we have carefully studied Memo-
rial 416 and find that its annotations are not in keeping with the
facts. Your Committee recommends as follows:

Wuereas, Students not preparing for the ministry or teaching
profession pay tuition; and

Wuereas, The Board for Higher Education is carefully super-
vising the operating costs at our colleges and seminaries; and

Wuereas, The Board for Higher Education is in the process of
inaugurating a special accounting system to safeguard the interests
of Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That we reject this overture.

Allocate More Funds for Missions
‘(Memorial 417)

Wuereas, The 1950 budget for Higher Education is $1,386,500,
or nearly one third of the total budget; and

Wuereas, The 1950 budget for Parish Education, Publicity and
Mission Education, Stewardship, Administration, and Standing
Committees is nearly $400,000, or one tenth of the total of the
1950 budget; and - ;

Wuereas, The 1950 budget for Missions is only $1,775,000, or
not even one half of the total budget of $4,250,000 for 1950; and

Wuereas, The primary mission of our Church is, and should
ever be, “to preach the Gospel to every creature”; and

Wuereas, Due to a multiplying of boards and commissions, of
full-time secretaries and assistant secretaries, the cost of non-mis-
sionary items is increasing from year to year and there is grave
danger that Synod, for lack of funds, is being hampered in its
mission of saving souls for Christ; now therefore be it

Resolved, That we petition Synod to order the Fiscal Con-
ference to re-examine its synodical budget allocations, restudy
the budget for higher education, cut down wherever possible the
overhead expense, eliminate, wherever possible, full-time execu-
tive secretaries and assistant secretaries, and allocate more of
the funds at its disposal for the cause of missions.

Sv. Pever’s Ev. Luraeran Concrecarion -
Morrrson, Itt.
Herman Beverots, Chairman
Martin BEverots, Secretary

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