# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S109
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 109

B. MEMORIALS PERTAINING TO SEMINARIES,
TEACHERS AND PREPARATORY COLLEGES

New Junior College in Michigan
(Memorial 117)

The Southeastern Pastoral Conference of the Michigan District
respectfully petitions the venerable Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod at its 28th Delegate Synod assembled in St. Paul, Minn.,
from June 20 to 30, 1956, to authorize the construction and main-
tenance of a new junior college within the territory of the Mich-
igan District for these reasons:

A. The closing of Concordia Junior College, Fort Wayne, Ind.,
at the time the new Senior College is opened will mean that the
Michigan District and the Central District — two of Synod’s largest
Districts and sources of manpower — are deprived of the benefits
of a synodical junior college for the education of sorely needed
future laborers in the Lord’s vineyard.

B. The nearest synodical junior colleges to which promising
young men from the Michigan and Central Districts can be sent
are hundreds of miles away, thus causing grave expense and in-
convenience to parents and students.

C. The need for intensified synodical consciousness is becom-
ing more apparent in the new generation growing up in our estab-
lished churches and in the recent converts filling our new missions
and congregations.

D. The welfare of Synod at large is involved in the preserva-
tion of a pious ministry to be recruited from the Christian homes
and families that have, under God’s blessing, built our Synod into
a potent force during the past 100 years.

E. The rapid expansion of our Synod calls for more full-time
workers, and these can be more readily secured and held if the
preparatory school in which they are to be trained is readily ac-

ible.
cessible Louis H. Kornter Guisert T. OTTE

Resolutions Committee

Re St. John’s College, Winfield
Four-Year Ministerial Program
(Memorial 118)

Wuersas, Statistical studies would seem to indicate that, as
our church under the blessings of God looks forward to a growth
comparable to the growth of the last 25 years, the number of min-
isters needed annually will continue to increase; and