# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S226
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226 STRUCTURE AND CONSTITUTION

and its staff seem to be overburdened in studving and assessing
the program, finances. management. and curricula of the
synodical seminaries and colleges in order to adequately make
policies relevant to them; and

WHEREAS, The Synod through a board separate from the
BPES will be better able to understand and support the specific
programs, aims, and curricula of the synodical seminaries; and

WHEREAS. A Board for Seminary Education with duties
extending exclusively to the seminaries will assure closer
supervision of these schools and more effective recruitment in
a day when our Synod is in great need of well-trained pastors
and missionaries: therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod in convention assembled createa
new Board of Seminary Education to supervise the three
seminaries; and be it further

Resolved, That this board consist of five members: two
laymen, one appointed (elected) from the Board of Regents of
Concordia Theological Seminary. St. Louis, Missouri, and one
by Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana; two clergymen
elected by the Synod in convention: and a Vice-President of the
Synod; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Board of Seminary Education assume
all the duties and responsibilities for the three seminaries now
exercised by the BPES and described in Handbook 2.233
through 2.235.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church
Broomfield, Colo.
Harlan Harnapp. Pastor

5-52A
To Make Board for Social Ministry
Services a Program Board

WHEREAS, There are many programs carried on by the
Board for Social Ministry Services, such as World Relief, World
Hunger, Project Compassion, and Keys for Christ: and

WHEREAS, It would seem wise to entrust such matters to a
group of specialists—yet specialists who retain close contact
with the “grass roots’; and

WHEREAS, The work is of such importance that those
charged with the task should have direct access to the Synod
itself; and

WHEREAS, The present relegation of the formerly constituted
Board of Social Ministry and World Relief under the direction
of the Board for Parish Services adds needless and cumbersome
bureaucracy to the Board for Social Ministry’s efficient func-
tioning, limiting also the Synod’s vital decision-making role:
and

WHEREAS, The presently constituted Board for Parish
Services has sufficient assignments and responsibilities of its
own in the area of parish education; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
grant program board status and standing to the Board for
Social Ministry Services, thereby reinstating the board as
constituted prior to the convention of 1981.

Bethany Lutheran Church
Lake City, Minn.

Sylvia Hoffman, Secretary
Michael Haar, Pastor

Identical or similar:
5-52B
St. Martin’s, Winona, Minn. Charles Johnson

5-53
To Provide Additional Counsel
for the CTCR

WHEREAS, The Commission on Theology and Church
Relations (CTCR) “shall provide guidance to the Synod in

matters of theology and church relations, specifically: 1. in
bringing matters of theology and church relations through
special studies and documents to the membership of the Synod
and to conferences” (Handbook 2.593 b 1); and

WHEREAS, Such guidance often involves matters related to
the teaching ministry of the church: and

WHEREAS, There are over 8,000 teachers. nearly 1.500
parochial schools, and 165,000 pupils involved in and affected
by such guidance when adopted; and

WHEREAS, It is evident that with appropriate representation
such a large constituency can provide the Synod with guidance
based on firsthand experience regarding the teaching ministry:
and

WHEREAS, Of the 13 voting and four advisory members of
the CTCR only one is a teacher on the roster of the Synod;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the composition of the CTCR be increased
by three teachers; one elected by the Synod in convention, and
two elected by the Council of Presidents.

Faculty

Concordia College

River Forest, II].

Lila M. Kurth, Secretary

5-54A
To Reinstate the Commission on Worship
as a Self-Standing Commission

WHEREAS, Worship in Word and Sacramentis the lifeblood
of the church and its importance dare not be minimized; and

WHEREAS, The Commission on Worship has been instru-
mental in producing The Lutheran Hymnal (1941) and
Worship Supplement (1969); and

WHEREAS, The commission gave considerable assistance as
part of the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship (ILCW) in
the production of the Lutheran Book of Worship; and

WHEREAS, The commission has successfully completed the
first part of its synodical assignments in the publication of the
“Pew Edition” of Lutheran Worship (1982) and Lutheran
Worship Altar Book; and

WHEREAS, The commission is continuing its synodical
assignment in preparing and producing a new updated Agenda
authorized by the 1981 convention; and

WHEREAS, The work of the commission does not end with the
completion of Lutheran Worship and its companion volumes,
but the commission must continue to function as a vital force
for liturgical and hymnological resource for the church; and

WHEREAS, The present relegation of the commission under
the direction of the Board for Parish Services adds needless
and cumbersome bureaucracy to the commission's efficient
functioning; and

WHEREAS, The presently constituted Board for Parish
Services has sufficient assignments of its own in the area of
parish education; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
reinstate the Commission on Worship as a separate and
independent commission in the synodical adminstration, as
prior to the convention of 1981.

Bethany Lutheran Church
Lake City, Minn.

Sylvia Hoffmann, Secretary
Michael Haar, Pastor

Identical or similar:

5-54B to 5-54P

English District

Ascension, Pittsburgh, Pa.

St. Mark’s, West Henrietta, N.Y.
Zion, Atlantic, lowa

Zion, Ogden, Iowa

Paul E. Bacon
Robert Schipul
Brian Sloan
Russell Sorensen
George A. Krengel