# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S365
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK 365

Resolution 16

Subject: Enlarged Services to Lutheran Faculty Personnel

Wuereas, The program of the Student Service Commission
recognizes the needs of Lutheran faculty personnel at colleges and
universities not affiliated with our church; and

Wuereas, The Commission has through our student pastors
and the Lutheran Academy contributed toward the involvement
of faculty personnel in local and other church work; and

Wuereas, The Commission has also encouraged student pastors
to form local staff groups for purposes of conferences, mutual
encouragement, and impact; and

Wuereas, The Commission has considered sending a special
representative of the Commission to major universities for local
and regional conferences with staff members; and

Wuereas, The records of the Commission also indicate the
Commission’s interest in a quarterly faculty bulletin edited by
a faculty member under the Commission’s auspices; be it therefore

Resolved, That Synod request the Fiscal Conférence to make
provision in the Commission’s budget for enlarged services to
Lutheran faculty personnel toward greater use of their talents in
the service of Jesus Christ.

The following resolution of commendation was adopted, upon
recommendation of Committee 5:

Resolution 17

Wuereas, The students of our Synod at secular colleges and
universities have been served in ever larger numbers through the
consecrated efforts of our Student Service Commission, its Execu-
tive Secretary, and the student pastors of our Synod; and

Wuereas, The Student Service Commission has shown a deep
sense of stewardship in the use of funds allotted to its purposes; and

Wuereas, Over 600 pastors have supplied spiritual guidance
for more than 30,000 Lutheran students on more than 1,200 cam-
puses; and

Wuereas, Under God the efforts of all these kingdom workers
have been blessed with remarkable success; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod express its gratitude to God for these
undeserved blessings, and its gratitude to the Student Service
Commission, its Executive Secretary, and to all who have labored
so faithfully in the interest of the conservation of our Lutheran
youth at secular institutions.