# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S235
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"934 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

training qualified- persons for the service of the church. These
comments are reported here to remind each and every member
of Synod that mere change is not progress. However, with the
assured gracious presence of the Holy Spirit, a synod made up
of congregations, pastors, and teachers can fix its eye on God-
pleasing goals in ministerial and teacher training. To the extent
these goals are generally accepted, Synod can, despite handicaps
without and personal inadequacies within, plan for long-range
God-pleasing solutions, organize and even reorganize its training
system, and provide for itself an adequate supply of qualified
pastors and teachers despite persistent and new problems that
may arise.

SECTION VI

Recommendations on Capital Investment Requests
from Institutions Under Section 6.147

Since the Chicago Convention in 1947, Synod has made the
following requirements for the preparation, gathering, analysis,
evaluation, and recommendation of capital investment requests
for the synodical system of colleges and seminaries (Handbook,
Section 6.147):

“The Board of Control, in the month of January preceding
each triennial convention of Synod, shall submit to the Board for
Higher Education recommendations for major repairs, capital im-
provements, and expansion of its educational facilities for the
succeeding triennium. After due consideration thereof, the Board
for Higher Education, after consultation with the Board of Direc-

: tors, shall submit the same, with its recommendations, to the

President of Synod for action at the triennial convention.”

| az Synod in convention at Houston gave approval to capital
; investment projects at the existing colleges and seminaries totaling,

i: with an established contingency allowance, a final balance of

i $4,475,000.

a The same convention provided for the establishment of a Sur-

| vey and Findings Committee with the assignment of making

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y Recommendations

with Priorit
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: | a careful and detailed survey of the financial program of Synod
i and. of its financial requirements for the future insofar as they
are determinable. After a series of meetings and repeated repre-
sentations by the synodical boards and agencies, including the
vo Board for Higher Education, the Survey and Findings Committee
aa ee decided to recommend to the 1955 St. Paul Fiscal Conference that
BEL ys the capital investment nesds of the church in the foreseeable
ey future be met by systematic inclusion in the annual current
fe budget of Synod. The 1955 Fiscal Conference accepted this
recommendation and included: in the 1956 budget of Synod an

Tabulation of Institutional Requests for Capital Funds

College and Project

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