# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1992_S132
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school, agency, or auxiliary of The Lutheran Church—Mis-
souri Synod as established by the Foundation bylaws. It
shall also provide such services to congregations, auxil-
iaries, other recognized service organizations, and others
under policies approved by the Board of Trustees.

pelieies:

(Moved from Bylaw 9.05 under “Stewardship”):

b. The department Foundation shall

1. devise synodwide programs of deferred giving, in-
cluding legacies, bequests, devises, endowments, founda-
tions, and other trusts for the advancement, promotion,
endowment, and maintenance of the Synod and its Dis-
tricts, colleges, seminaries, and other agencies, and such
other causes as may be designated by Fhe—butheran
Chureh—Missouri SynodFoundation the Board of Trust-
ees and the Board of Directors of the Synod;

2. provide estate-planning services, materials, and
training events in accordance with applicable policies es-
tablished by
dation the Board of Trustees to assist estate-planning
counselors throughout the Synod in consummating gifts;

3. maintain a current catalog of North American and
worldwide missions, and social ministry, higher education,
and other projects, on a prioritized basis, which could be
funded by speeial gifts from individuals, congregations,
and auxiliaries, and develop prospectuses for use by speeiat
gift counselors in making all calls;

4. provide materials and conduct training events to as-
sist both volunteer and salaried counselors throughout the
Synod.

c. The Foundation shall be responsible for providing
consulting services to promote ministry enhancement, sus-
tained giving, and capital improvements for the mainte-
nance of the institutions, agencies, causes, and objects of
the Synod.. :

ed. The Treasurer, as the trust officer of the Synod,
shall provide staff services to the Foundation. In this ca-
pacity he shall function under the bylaws and written pol-
icies of the Foundation as well as those of the Board of
Directors of the Synod and be accountable to the same.

d-e. The Foundation shall distribute designated funds
in accordance with the contractual instructions of the do-
nor. The distrihution of undesignated funds shall be de-
termined by the Membere-efthe-Foundation. Board of
Trustees in consultation with the Board of Directors of the
Synod. -

e-f. The Foundation shall be audited annually by in-
dependent certified public accountants selected by the
Board of Trustees Members-of-the Feundation-The audit
report shall be made available upon request. The auditors
shall also provide the-Members an annual letter com-
menting on the administrative and financial controls.

RESOLUTIONS

3.647 Other Foundations

Since the Foundation serves all the Synod, no new foun-
dations shall be established by Districts, colleges, semi-
naries, and agencies without prior approval of the
synodical Board of Directors. .

(The following are changes for the “Stewardship” sec-
tion of the Handbook.)

9.01 General

The Board of Directors shall have the responsibility for
providing operating and capital funds for carrying out the
work of the Synod and to that end provide for a Department
of Stewardship under the board which will promote stew-
ardship, ebtain e 3—an d
eapital_driveo forthe Synod ‘education and nurture. “Its
work shall be in accordance with the Biblical principles of
stewardship. To assist the board and the department,
there shall be a Council on Stewardship as provided for in

‘Bylaw 3.721.

9.03 Stewardship Support

The department shall

a. provide input to the Foundation and other units of
the Synod seetionein-the-department to assist them in
including praper Scriptural motivation in all speeial-gift
and-deferred-_giving-pregrams gi/l programs;

b. provide to the Board for Parish Services advice and
materials which will cultivate congregational members to
continue to grow in living their lives as faithful stewards
of Jesus Christ, effectively carrying out Christ’s ministry ~
and mission collectively through congregations and
through the Synod and its agencies as well as in their day-

. to-day personal relationships;

c. provide, in consultation with Districts, materials and
training events to aid Districts, pastors, and congregations
in effectively teaching the grace of proportionate giving
and in promoting their program in the congregation and
through the District and the Synod.

(Bylaw 9.05, “Deferred and Special Gifts,” moved to
Foundation)

9.07 District Boards

a. Membership. Each synodical District shall elect or
appoint a committee or board for stewardship.

b. Function. The District board shall cooperate with the
Synod’s Department of Stewardship and shall assist and
advise the local congregations in the development and pro-
motion of an adequate stewardship program.

c. Stewardship Secretary. The Districts of the Synod
are advised to provide for the systematic supervision and
qualified guidance and promotion of stewardship educa-
tion. To that end, where possible, they shall establish and
maintain the office of a Stewardship Counselor or Secre-
tary, who shall be responsible to the District Stewardship
Board in-the-performanee-ef-his-duties,

9.09 Congregational Boards — .

Every congregation is encouraged to elect or appoint a
board or committee for stewardship, which shall be re-
sponsible for carrying on an adequate stewardship pro-
gram in the manner prescribed by the congregation.

Action: Adopted (8).