# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S666
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666 FINANCIAL MATTERS

consulting, as the occasion and need may arise, with their circuit
stewardship leaders in order to extend the scope and improve the
effectiveness of the congregational stewardship program, and be
it further

Resolved, That all circuits of Synod, upon the request of their
District Stewardship Committee, be urged to set up a Circuit
Stewardship Committee, whose purpose it shall be to promote
Synod’s and the District’s stewardship program in the congrega-
tions of their respective circuits.

II

Wuereas, God has blessed our people with great blessings in
Christ Jesus; and

Wuereas, The urgency of sharing these great blessings with

a dying world is everywhere in evidence, both at home and

abroad; and

Wuereas, God’s blessings upon our church’s missionary efforts
both at home and abroad should encourage our people to give
generous support to our church’s missionary program; and

Wuereas, Our people, for the most part, have better incomes
than ever before; and, on the other hand,

Wuereas, Our people generally do not sense the urgency of
God’s hour in this fateful period of world history —and are not
overconcerned about the hundreds of millions headed toward an
awful eternity; and

Wuereas, Our people generally know too little about their own
church’s missionary outreach, both at home and abroad, and fail
to identify themselves with the missionary program of their
church; and

Wuereas, many of our people do not pray fervently and fre-
quently for those without Christ and therefore without hope; and

Wuereas, Many of our people have neither heart nor hand to
give generously toward the support of their very own mission
program through District and Synod; be it therefore

Resolved, That this convention of Synod here assembled urge
all congregations of Synod

1. To plan and promote a year-round program of missionary
education and information through sermons, lectures, topics, Bible
classes, and Sunday schools, as well as for their auxiliary organiza-

tions, encouraging them to make use of the printed and visual-aid —

materials provided by our department;
2. to bend their best efforts toward reaching at least their

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