# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1260
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

FINANCIAL MATTERS 781

1 Your Committee also finds that the overture makes charges
hich are based on the private opinion of the author and are not

‘supported by facts; and therefore

Recommends that this overture be rejected.

Pledges to Be Made Directly to Synod
(Unprinted Memorial 82)
Wuereas, The members of The Luthern Church — Missouri

“= Synod have in recent years contributed twenty million dollars to
“S-alleviate the suffering in Europe; and

Wuereas, Members of local congregations generously support

’ home projects; and

Wuereas, The present system of obtaining funds for the work
of Synod appears to be not entirely adequate; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the Executive Board of the Metropolitan

. Zone, Southern California District Lutheran Laymen’s League,

in line with our organization’s fundamental aim, namely, “to aid
Synod in its business and financial matters,” recommend that
Synod through its stewardship director, first, petition each of the
five thousand odd congregations in Synod, both self-sustaining
and subsidized, to include Synod in its annual budget; second,
and to that end submit a pledge direct to Synod for the year
over and above their pledge to their respective District treasury
each month, the monthly portion of their annual pledge for Synod.

Car. D. Minter, Secretary
Metropolitan Zone, Southern California District
Lutheran Laymen’s League .
ACTION
Synod adopted the recommendation of Committee 11:

Resolution 24

Your Committee recommends that the suggestions of the
brethren of the L. L. L. Metropolitan Zone of Southern California
be referred to the Stewardship Secretary of Synod.

Appropriations to be Approved by the Fiscal Conference

Resolution 26 \
Wuereas, Many of the resolutions of this convention making
appropriations contain the clause “Subject to the Approval of the
Fiscal Conference”; and
Wuereas, Some of the resolutions of this convention making i
appropriations do not contain this clause; and
Wueneas, It has been the policy of Synod that all appropria-