# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S269
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 269

6-39

To Consider Alternative to Tenure

WHEREAS, The legally imposed mandatory age for modified
service and retirement continues torise and may be eliminated
entirely; and

WHEREAS, Service of tenured faculty extended years bevond
what had been typical has the effect of enlarging the segment
of a faculty with tenure or of denying tenure to other worthy
candidates; and

WHEREAS, A surplus of tenured faculty is especially difficult
in times of necessary consolidation; and

WHEREAS, Elderly faculty persons sometimes experience
difficulty in dealing realistically with their mortality; and

WHEREAS, Tenure provides primarily career security, which
need not be eliminated entirely under another plan; therefore
be it

Resolved, That the Board for Professional Education
Services be instructed to call for a study of continuous, rollover
contracts (assuming a current contract period of 1983—1987,
the continuous or rollover feature would mean that in the
spring of 1984 the period is extended to 1988, a year later to
1989, and so on) as an alternative to tenure; and be it further

Resolved, That present svnodical faculties be included in
the evaluation of this matter: and be it finally

Resolved, That any Handbook changes which become
necessary to reflect the results of such study be presented to the
1986 synodical convention.

Board of Regents
Concordia Lutheran College of Texas
Ray F. Martens, Executive Officer

6-40

To Establish Mission School
at Seminaries

WHEREAS, Our Lord has commanded us to go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to
obey everything that He has commanded us (Matthew 28:19-
20); and

WHEREAS, Our church sees itself as obedient and responsible
to our Lord’s command (Handbook Article III, objective 2); and

WHEREAS, Our church in its 1979 convention took a forward-
looking action which marked the decade of the 80s in the LCMS
as the decade of Missions; and

WHEREAS, This objective was quantified for the decade of
the 80s by setting the following goals:

1. Resolving to open ten new mission fields overseas (1-18A)

2. Resolving to begin literacy and Bible translation work
on 10 spoken languages not yet reduced to writing (1-19).

3. Resolving to send out 600 new missionaries to partner
churches/ mission fields and new outreach areas (1-20)

4. Resolving to recruit and train 100 Hispanics, 150 Blacks,
50 native Americans, 20 Asian Americans, 50 workers for deaf
ministries, and a sufficient number of campus pastors for full-
time church service (1-23A)

5. Resolving to encourage the identification and training of
lay expatriates for effective witness overseas (1-26); and

WHEREAS, The seminaries as servants of the church are the
natural instruments for identifying, recruiting, cultivating,
and developing the human resources to carry out this worthy
objective; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod call upon each seminary to
establish a mission school to train people to implement our
evangelism and mission objectives.

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

6-41
To Fund New Seminary Professors

WHEREAS, The pastors of The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod are able to participate only to a limited degree in
Lutheran programs of continuing education; and

WHEREAS, The need for growth in many areas of ministry is
urgently felt today among our pastors, e.g., counseling, preach-
ing, evangelism, teaching, etc.; and

WHEREAS, The seminaries are the best vehicle of our church
for providing the programs of continuing education necessary
for the growth and development of the pastors of the Synod:
and

WHEREAS, The programs of continuing education (in such
areas as education, evangelism, pastoral theology, homiletics,
etc.) presently open to our pastors are often un-Lutheran or
academically or theologically unsound; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod urge the Board of Directors and
the Board for Professional Education Services to approve and
fund one new professor a year during the next triennium at
each of the two seminaries in the United States to work in the
area of continuing education at the seminary locations and
especially throughout the Synod.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church ~

Broomfield, Colo.
Harlan Harnapp, Pastor

6-42

To Further the Education
of Seminary Professors

WHEREAS, The primary purpose of our synodical seminaries
is to train and equip men for service in the congregations of the
Synod; and

WHEREAS, Changing conditions and needs in the local
congregation demand that our seminary professors keep in
contact with local parishes; and

WHEREAS, The density of Lutherans and the great size and
number of Lutheran congregations in the Fort Wayne and St.
Louis areas tend to give a false impression as to what the needs
and demands of a more typical Missouri Synod parish are; and

WHEREAS, Some of our seminary professors have never been
a parish pastor; and

WHEREAS, Our Synod continues to have a large number of
vacancies each vear; therefore be it

Resolved, That every seventh year our tenured seminary
professors be given a year's leave; and be it further

Resolved, That this leave be spent in a vacant parish of our

Synod, serving as parish pastor; and be it finally

Resolved. That the Council of Presidents be the body which

implements this resolution through the assignment procedures.

Our Savior Lutheran Church

Newton, Iowa

Ed Trost, President

Kevin Lanning, Secretary

6-43

To Establish Mission Schools
at the Two Seminaries in the U.S.

WHEREAS, Our Lord has commanded us to go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to
obey everything that He has commanded us (Matt. 28:19-20):
and

WHEREAS, Ourchurch sees itself as obedient and responsible
to our Lord's command (Handbook, Article III, Objective 2):
and

WHEREAs, Ourchurch inits 1979 convention took a forward-
looking action which marked the decade of the ‘80s in the
LCMS as the decade of missions; and