# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1247
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

768 FINANCIAL MATTERS

study the matter of non-budget items and submit its recommenda.
tions to the next convention.”

Your Committee in session on March 25, 1950, agreed that no
full or final solution of the problems assigned to it can be found
at this time. We are agreed that basically the ultimate solution for
the proper distribution of funds must wait upon a deeper appre-
ciation and wider exercise of the principles and practice of propor-
tionate giving and more guidance for our membership concerning
the relative importance of various phases of Kingdom work requir-
ing their support. The whole matter requires further study through
mutual consultation by the Board of Directors of Synod and the
agencies under consideration. Recognizing the need of these agen-
cies within Synod and the splendid service they have rendered,
your Committee is persuaded that its recommendations will prove
helpful to all concerned in the matter of non-budget items. Our
recommendations are not to be considered as discriminatory in
nature, but are offered in order to assist the agencies in their
projects and programs which play a vital but supplementary role
in the work of the Kingdom and Synod.

Your Committee recommends

1. That the Board of Directors of Synod and the agencies in-
cluded in this report organize a co-ordinating council as
soon as possible on which the Board of Directors and all
the agencies concerned be represented. This council shall
serve as a clearinghouse for the timing and co-ordination of

- all projects and programs of the agencies belonging to the
council and which call for financial support beyond the
boundaries of any ‘synodical District;

2. That this co-ordinating council during this triennium de-
velop certain policies which will serve as effective guide-
lines for these agencies until the next synodical convention;

3. That this co-ordinating cotincil present these guidelines to
the 1953 synodical convention for its review and further
consideration;

4. That the financial needs of Synod be recognized as having
priority over the financial needs of agencies within Synod
which solicit funds beyend the boundaries of a synodical
District and beyond their own membership;

5. That the above-mentioned agencies inform the constituency
of Synod of their individual and combined annual budget
needs in time for congregations to give these needs full
consideration in their congregational budget;

6. That congregations be encouraged to decide for themselves