# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S714
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Our purpose must be the same as that indicated by the slogan
“Bringing Christ to the Nations.”

3. We believe that our Projected television program should be
cast into a distinctive framework, allowing for variety of technique
with special emphasis on dramatic Presentations, both fictional and
documentary, both Biblical and contemporary,

By “distinctive framework” we mean an Opening and an end.

reaching a Program.

The Television Committee met at regular intervals, laying plans
for the telecasts of “This Is the Life.” The Services of the Rev. Her-
man W. Gockel Were secured as Religious Adviser in the fall of
1951; and in the spring of 1959 Mr. Melvin Schlake joined the
organization in the Capacity of Executive Secretary,

York, Washington, and Philadelphia were the first to carry the
Programs on Sunday, September 14,

The Financing of the Program

The fiseal year of the Lutheran Television Productions Com-
mittee coincides with the fiscal year of Synod.

The costs for the first fiscal year of Operation, from Septem-.
ber 1, 1952, to January 31, 1953, were covered by a Spetial grant of
the synodica] Board of Directors in the amount of $750,000, made

m the “Conquest for Christ” fund. The actual expenses during
this period amounted to $756,979.88. $50,000 of this amount was