# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S477
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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 477

1. Make a thorough study of amendments and changes, if any,
which may be made to the rules, regulations, and manner in which
Synodical Pension Funds are administered so as to lawfully
permit the use thereof for Church Extension purposes OF for
construction loans to congregations;

2. Make its recommendations as to such reinvestment policy;

3. Publish its findings and conclusions not later than June 1,
1958, and submit its report to the synodical convention of 1959;
and be it further

Resolved, That the committee be authorized to engage the
services of legal counsel in making its studies.

Sr, Jonn’s EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CoNGREGATION
San Francisco, CALIF.
Watrer BurKLE, Secretary

Use of Pension Funds for Church Extension
(Memorial 805)

Wuereas, Opportunities for the church in her work of evan-
gelizing the nations have never been more abundant than at
present; and

Wuereas, In the United States alone an estimated 38-per-cent
increase in total population will take place in the next twenty
years; and

Wuereas, This will require an expansion of school and worship
facilities, particularly in the suburban areas of America, to a degree
far in excess of the fullest financial resources of our total church
membership; and

Wuereas, The time for greatly increased expansion in the
work of our church has so obviously been given to this present
generation by no one less than the Head of the Church; be it

Resolved, That the Board for Support and Pensions be directed
to take whatever measures are required to make possible the
investment of the maximum amount of its funds in an accelerated
program of church extension to meet the needs of our day.

Zion LuTBERAN CHuRcH, MASCOUTAH, ILLINOIS
Wr1am E. Gorrss, Pastor
Georce J. Leper, President