# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S713
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

714 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 715

Wuereas, The need for a full-time s
vision director remains; therefore be it

Resolved, That this resolution b i
=. e carried out as
feasible, subject to the approval of the Fiscal Conference soon as

H
THANKS TO THE NETWORKS AND: INDIVIDUAL STATIONS

WHEREAS, Many radio and televisi n i di
. €vision stations have m i
possible to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more people n
» in

some cases by granting free air time; therefore be it

Resolved, That w . . “= The entire history of the Lutheran Television Productions
casting Company, the Columbis Bodene to we National Broad- “ie Committee and of the television program “This Is the Life” falls
ican Broadcasting Company, the Du M eT yee the Amer- 4% within the period of the current triennium. After the conclusion
and to the hundreds of local radio and televisi ° even Network, ‘of World War II, television came into being as an important part
out the country for the time on the ai €vision stations through- of the American scene. By 1950, 105 television stations were in
and many of its pastors and T given our Synod as such “operation in 63 regions in the United States, and the growth of
and congregations as a public service. the television industry was so rapid that the Federal Communi-
I # cations Commission inaugurated the iireeze Tiss then, 2 afforded
28 an opportunity during which those interested in the growth, appli-
THANKS TO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION as sation, and utilization of television within the United States could
Wuerras, The Federal Communicatio %. consolidate their position. After the Milwaukee Convention of The
our Station KFUO a channel for televisio Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod it became increasingly ap-
parent that television, a twentieth-century miracle, would con-
stitute a marvelous new medium for the proclamation of the

.. Savior’s Gospel throughout this country.
Committee 1 ‘ In a meeting at the close of 1950 the synodical Board of Direc-
mittee 13 recommended, _ tors created a committee known as the Board of Directors Tele-
vision Advisory Committee, ta study the entire television picture
and the possibilities that it might hold for The Lutheran Church

ynodical radio ang tele. - evision Productions Committee with power to act; and be it

er :
L..; Resolved, To commend Mount Calvary Lutheran Congregation,
M(s pastor, the Texas District, the television station, and all others
Fho took part in inaugurating and supporting this program.

Report of the Lutheran Television
Productions Committee
(Memorial 1005)

ms Commission granted
m; therefore be it
Resolved, That we express our appreciation to the Fed ral
Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for its interest i
the use of radio and television for religious purposes. =n
Regarding Unprinted Memorial 67
and Synod resolved:

SRS

Resolution 33

proved ite ganar I oY Bible School in San Antonio, -Tex., has — Missouri Synod. This committee held its first meeting on Jan-
W € as a television-teaching program; and uary 4, 1951, at Concordia Theological Seminary, under the chair-
and preduen. we great expenditure of time necessary to prepare manship of Dean Leonard C. Wuerffel. During the first months
of e su @ program five days each week makes it a matter _ of 1951 the Committee met regularly and investigated all possible
poor stewardship to try to produce such programs only locally avenues of approach. On March 3 and 4, 1951, a larger meeting

in other areas; and was called at the Palmer House in Chicago, to which some forty
representative leaders from within and beyond our Church were
invited to study all phases of the television question. In its meet-

ing of May 18, 1951, the Board of Directors Television Advisory

Fr Waereas, The tremendous response from the public, from old
and young alike, and the. favorable response of the TV industry
seems to show that this type of program should be used on

a Synod-wide basis; and Committee made the following recommendations to the synodical
Wuereas, Time does not suffice th ini ae Board of Directors:
vention to give this important . tte, “he athe day: s of this con- 1. We believe that an effective television prograrn for our
‘therefore be it atver the attention it deserves; Church is a definite possibility. We believe that this medium lends
Resolv ed, T . itself well for the promulgation of general Kingdom purposes.
° commend this program and recommend it to the 2. We believe that the purpose of any television program, spon-

Synodical Radi isi i
o and Television Committee and/or The: Lutheran sored by our Church, must: be to propagate the Christian message.