# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S274
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 273

our efforts to train His servants through our program of higher
education; and be it further

Resolved, (b) That we recognize the efficient and painstaking
manner in which the Board for Higher Education and its executive
secretary have carried on the complex and arduous duties of their
office, and that we express to them our very sincere gratitude for
a difficult task well done.

Wuereas, God has marvelously used our colleges and sem-
inaries in preserving the unity and in promoting the growth of
Synod; and

Wuereas, The members of our faculties have been most faithful
in performing the task which the church has entrusted to them;
therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That we thank our faculties for keeping in mind
the high and holy purpose of their calling and for the diligence
with which they have pursued their tasks in and out of the
classrooms; and be it further

Resolved, (b) That we pray for them the continued strength
and wisdom which is essential for them as instructors of those
who will preach, teach, and apply the Word of God in our con-
gregations and schools in the years to come.

A Full-Time Bible Institute
(Memorial 202)

The St. Louis Lutheran Bible Institute, now in its tenth year
of operation and the parent organization of 45 similar leadership-
training schools in Synod, submits the following proposal for a full-
time Bible institute or lay-training school, after consultations with
the president of the St. Louis Seminary, the Executive Secretary
of the Board for Higher Education, the Executive Secretary of
the Board for Home Missions, and the chairman of the Committee
on Lay Enlistment and Training.

I. The Need for Such a School

A..A special study of the manpower needs of our church indi-
cates that there is a manpower shortage and that for some time
we shall continue to have a shortage of pastors, teachers, mission-
aries, professors, and administrators.

B. There is a new realization that competent laymen can be
trained and used effectively in part-time or full-time church work,
thus relieving the strain on the professional staff; as witness the
foreign mission builders and home. mission builders.

C. There are many things in the local parish and in church