# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S212
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212 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Wuereas, The Board of Directors, the Board for Higher Ed-
ucation, the Survey and Findings Committee, and the local Board
of Control after repeated appraisal of the many problems and dif-
ficulties involved in this complex project all concurred in the con-
clusion that Synod’s best interest would be served by the earliest
possible awarding of all contracts relating to this construction;
therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That this convention commend the Board of
Directors, the Board for Higher Education, the Board of Control
of Concordia Senior College, the College of Presidents, and the
Survey and Findings Committee for their vision and action in pro-
viding for the completion of Concordia Senior College; and be it
further

Resolved, (b) That this convention reaffirm the action of its
predecessors in urging the earliest possible completion and opening
of Concordia Senior College of Fort Wayne; and be it further

Resolved, (c) 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 coura-
geously sought to adjust to the realities of situation between synod-
ical conventions in order that the expressed will of Synod might
be achieved effectively and efficiently; and be it further

Resolved, (d) That this synodical convention authorize the
necessary funds — not to exceed a total of $7,150,000 — to expedite
the completion of this campus and its facilities and direct the in-
clusion of the necessary capital funds of $1,000,000 in Synod’s 1956
budget and of $1,815,000 in the 1957 budget as part of the capital
funds assigned to the Board for Higher Education section of the
budget; and be it finally

Resolved, (e) That the President of Synod be authorized to
invite the pastors and the congregations of Synod to offer 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 train-
ing of preachers and missionaries of the Gospel in the ministry of
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

SECTION D

Stabilizing Synod’s Training Program
and Increasing Its Capacity
Studies of synodical growth and the implications of such
growth for the work of the church instituted and reported by
the Board of Directors of Synod, and participated in by repre-
sentatives of other synodical boards and agencies, suggest strongly

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