# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S17
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PRESIDENT’S TRIENNIAL REPORT 17

general management and supervision of Synod’s business affairs.
There are other articles in the synodical Handbook which clearly
delineate the duties of the Board. You can readily understand
that these men should receive your President’s public expression
of gratitude.

In saying this I realize full well that from time to time you
hear criticism of the Board’s actions. No one realizes better than
the members of the Board that they are not perfect. All members
ask God to forgive their sins, their errors, and mistakes.

Sometimes people have complained that they cannot get
a hearing before the Board. Since 1950 the Board has sought to
improve its work by dividing itself into four divisional com-
mittees, a Committee on Missions, which hears the requests of the
various mission boards of Synod; a Committee for Parish Edu-
cation, which serves as the open door to the Board of Directors
for the boards for Parish Education, Youth Work, and Public Re-
lations. Through this committee an advisory relationship exists
between the Board of Directors and the Lutheran Laymen’s League,
the Walther League, and the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League.
Furthermore, a committee for the matters pertaining to synodical
services and a committee for all matters pertaining to our colleges
and seminaries. These divisional committees then report to the
plenary session of the Board, where, after thorough discussion,
action is taken on the requests. This arrangement has served to
do more efficient work and also to expedite the business of the
Board. Those who have matters to present to the Board have been
requested to present these to the Board ten days prior to the
meeting. This feature, however, needs improvement. Because of
belated pleas or requests, time for hearings by the committees
could not always be given, and the Board was at a disadavantage
in giving thorough consideration to such requests. The Board is
eager to render proper and God-pleasing decisions and will strive
in the future to improve and to expedite its work.

Brethren, with the prayer in our hearts and on our lips that
our heavenly Father may grant us grace and peace, concord and
unity, strength and ability to be about His business, motivated
by the view of Golgotha’s accursed tree, where the great God-man,
Christ Jesus, bought us with a price, that we may be His own,
live under Him in His kingdom, and serve Him in everlasting
righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, and firmly convinced
that the Holy Spirit will be given us throughout our sessions to
guide and direct us and to do that which is God-pleasing, let us
now address ourselves to the important work before us.