# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S113
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Re Junior College in Michigan
, (Memorial 122)

Wuereas, Our Junior College at Fort Wayne, Ind., is being
closed when the Senior College will be open; and

Wuereas, Michigan and the Central District, representing
almost 20 per cent of the Missouri Synod, will then be without
a Junior College for the training of pastors; and

Wuereas, The closest Junior Colleges at Bronxville, N. Y., and
Milwaukee, Wis., are hundreds of miles away and are already
crowded to capacity; and

Wuereas, The Michigan District has no synodical institution
of the Missouri Synod within the state and yet contributes almost
10 per cent of the costs of these institutions; and

Wuereas, The Lord of the church continuing to bless our be-
loved Missouri Synod, we will need additional Junior Colleges
immediately; therefore be it

Resolved, That Faith Lutheran Congregation of Livonia, Mich.,
petition the Missouri Synod, assembled in St. Paul, Minn., from
June 20 to June 30, 1956, to construct and maintain a Junior Col-

lege in Michigan. Rozert A. GruNnow, Pastor

GERALD List, Chairman
Wattace Fiemine, Vice-Chairman

New Concordia College in Michigan
(Memorial 1002)

Wuereas, The closing of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, in
June of 1957, will eliminate one channel of ministerial education
for the young men of Michigan and environs; and

Wuereas, The growing membership of Synod will demand an
increased flow of man power to man our stations here at home
and abroad; and

Wuereas, A great proportion of students who graduate from
the St. Louis Seminary begin their elementary training in Michigan,
Indiana, and Ohio; and

Wuereas, Present college sites for ministerial students will
demand that our young men travel to Milwaukee or Bronxville;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Monroe Circuit of the Michigan District
of The Lutheran Church — Missouri memorialize Synod at its
1956 St.Paul Convention to seriously consider the placing of