# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1986_S227
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LATE REPORTS AND OVERTURES 227

L5-173

To Receive Communante de la Paque,
Montreal, Que., Canada

Resolved, That Communante de la Paque, a French-
speaking Lutheran congregation in Montreal, Que., Can-
ada, be approved for membership in The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod.

Board of Directors
English District
Paul E. Bacon, Secretary

L5-174

To Incorporate Health and Healing
into Social Ministry

Wuereas, The Synod recognizes the healing ministry
of Jesus Christ under the cross as an essential ministry of
the church; and

Wuereas, Christian social ministry and health and
healing are related ministries of the church; and

Wuereas, Concern for human care through Christ-cen-
tered healing ministries has received a high priority from
major planning conferences of the Synod in 1985 and 1986;
and

Wuereas, A number of health-related ministries within
the Board for Social Ministry Services (e.g., alcoholism,
drug abuse, sanctity of life, aging) will benefit from the
professional and technical assistance available through a
Standing Committee on Health and Healing; and

Wuereas, The incorporation of the Commission on
Health and Healing into the Board for Social Ministry Ser-
vices as a standing committee will give the health and
healing ministry access to district boards for social min-
istry and higher visibility in the Synod worldwide; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Commission on Health and Healing
be incorporated into the Board for Social Ministry Services
as a standing committee; and be it further

Resolved, That the five-member committee include two
physicians, one nursing or other professional health
worker, and two pastors, with the president of Wheat
Ridge as an advisory member; and be it further

Resolved, That the functions of the present Commission
on Health and Healing as outlined in the Handbook be
retained as the functions of the Standing Committee on
Health and Healing; and be it further

Resolved, That the board retain the identity of the
health and healing ministry and negotiate access to other
departments of the church engaged in healing ministry
and that health and healing continue to be promoted by
the Synod in fund-raising and estate planning; and be it
finally

Resolved, That the functions of the Board for Social Min-
istry Services (Bylaw 2.423) include the additional func-
tion, “g. Promote the health and healing ministry of the
Gospel throughout the Synod.”

Commission on Health and Healing
Howard Mueller, Staff Administrator

L6-129

To Give Thanks for the Blessings of St.
John’s College During Its History
in Winfield, Kans.

Wuereas, St. John’s College and Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Winfield, Kans., both were begun under
the foresight and vision of their common benefactor, John
Peter Baden, a Lutheran businessman who lived in Win-
field; and

Wuereas, St. John’s College and Trinity Church have
enjoyed a lasting and mutually edifying relationship over
the 93-year history of the college; and

WHEREAS, Faculty and students of the college have been
served by the congregation in a variety of ways, including
church memberships, participation in the worship of the
congregation, using the Trinity Lutheran Grade School as
a training facility for the teacher-training students, mem-
bers taking them into their homes for meals and counsel,
thus providing for some a home away from home, pastoral
counseling, instruction for membership in the Lutheran
Church, confirmation, marriage, baptism of their little
ones, as well as opportunities for service in the life and
work of the congregation; and

WueEreas, The congregation has been served by the col-
lege in numerous ways, the faculty and staff applying their
expertise and experience to the life and work of the con-
gregation, serving on its boards and committees and being
members of its organizations, singing in the choir and en-
hancing the music life and worship of the congregation;
and

Wuereas, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church has
grown in many ways as a result of the college’s presence,
including quality and quantity of membership; therefore
be it

Resolved, That we give thanks to God for St. John’s
College even though we are deeply grieved at the loss of
a close friend and are saddened by the loss of faculty and
students in our midst for the years to come; though we
empathize with the faculty, staff, and students of St. John’s
College, whose lives and living have been uprooted and
who must make changes which often bring grief, turmoil,
and pain; and though we have felt that the apparent clos-
ing of the college has not always been handled in the most
discreet way;

We nonetheless give thanks to God for the many bless-
ings which have come from His gracious hand by means
of St. John’s College through these many years, for the
thousands of students who have worshiped and communed
at our altar who are now leaders in the church as pastors,
teachers, parish workers, and dedicated laypeople, for the
many faculty members who are and have been members
of Trinity Lutheran Church—many of whom were trans-
formed into the Church Triumphant after having lived in
Winfield and served among us for so many years; and be
it further

Resolved, That we demonstrate our thanksgiving by a
special observance to be held at our congregation during
the month of May 1986 to which the faculty, staff, and