# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S211
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 211

College in Fort Wayne, planned and organized to achieve the
objectives and to perform the functions which Synod has through
many years of study set for it is September 11, 1957. Ominous
elements in the international and the national situation and other
troubles and difficulties may still conspire to delay or even to
prevent the opening of this important, new, and never-more-needed
unit in Synod’s program of ministerial training. Your Board for
Higher Education in these trying developments has prayerfully
sought to further the best interests of Synod in its plans and
decisions.

Your Board for Higher Education recommends that this con-
vention reaffirm the action of its predecessors in urging the earliest
possible completion and opening of Concordia Senior College of
Fort Wayne.

Your Board further recommends that this convention ratify
the repeated interim actions taken by its Board of Directors,
its Fiscal Conferences, and its other boards and agencies as they
have prayerfully and courageously sought to adjust to the realities
of the situation between synodical conventions in order that the
expressed will of Synod might be achieved effectively and
efficiently.

Your Board also recommends that this synodical convention
authorize the necessary funds to expedite the completion of this
campus and its facilities and direct the inclusion of the necessary
capital funds in Synod’s 1956 and 1957 annual budgets as part
of the capital funds assigned to the Board for Higher Education
section of the budget.

Your Board finally recommends that the President of Synod
be authorized to invite the pastors and the congregations of Synod
to offer up special prayers of thanksgiving and intercession for the
new school, its faculty, and its students, on the day when the
new school is set aside and dedicated to its continuing task of
service in the training of preachers and missionaries of the Gospel
in the ministry of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

ACTION

Synod adopted Resolution 13 proposed by Committee 1:

Wuereas, Synod’s Board of Directors, the Board for Higher
Education, and the Board of Control of Concordia Senior College
have faithfully discharged the stewardship entrusted to them by
the 1953 convention; and

Woereas, The continuing rise in building costs, the absolute
need to increase the capacity of this college from 380 students to
450 students, strikes, and catastrophes made repeated adjustments
in this project inevitable; and