# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S269
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

268 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

require increasingly large numbers of trained pastors, missionaries,
and teachers, and will require also the continual expansion of
Synod’s facilities for preparing men and women for consecrated
and effective work in the vineyard of the Lord;

4, The expansion and periodic replacement of physical facilities
—pbuildings, equipment, and land-—will require the continual
availability of the necessary financial resources;

5. The practice of sound stewardship and the maintenance of
effective and well-integrated programs of training in all of Synod’s
educational institutions become possible only through the most
careful and methodical planning of educational and institutional
development;

6. It is especially critical that conscientious planning be de-
voted to the expansion and replacement of the physical facilities
required by an expanding program of ministerial and teacher
training;

7. Responsible and intelligent planning for the construction,
reconstruction, and initial equipping of buildings, and the acquisi-
tion and development of land, inescapably demands

a) the cautious preparation of long-range plans through which
the expansion and replacement of physical facilities can be under-
taken with a necessary sense of direction and in terms of a broad
perspective;

b) the preparation of short-range plans through which the
anticipations of long-range plans can be executed with adjustment
to immediate need and reality; and

c) the periodic re-examination, modification, and extension of
long-range plans on the basis of the experience of the church;

8. The preparation and execution of plans for the expansion
and replacement of physical means for the training of pastors and
teachers could proceed with markedly greater economy, effective-
ness, and confidence if Synod were to adopt a program of con-
tinuous rather than intermittent financial support; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, as-
sembled in regular convention in this year of our Lord, 1956,
adopt the following policies pertaining to the financing of capital
investment in its various colleges and seminaries in North America:

1. That each annual synodical budget hereafter include a spe-
cific appropriation for the construction, reconstruction, and initial
equipping of buildings and the acquisition and development of land
which are to be used for the training of pastors and teachers
according to the educational objectives and policies established

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