# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S730
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730 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

proportionate support of each agency according to need and the
ability of the members to grant such support;

4. Direct the Department of Social Welfare to gather informa-
tion on the work and the needs of all charitable agencies within
the church, to the end that the Department may be able to advise
congregations and Districts as to the equitable distribution of
welfare funds, whenever called upon to render such assistance.

ACTION
Synod disposed of this matter by adopting Resolution 2 of
Committee 13:
Resolution 2
Subject: Support of Charitable Agencies Within the Church

Wuereas, Scripture admonishes us: “As we have therefore
opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who
are of the household of faith” (Gal.6:10), and in many other
passages encourages and urges all Christians to practice charity
as an inevitable fruit of faith, that God may be glorified; and

Wuereas, Since the early days of our church it has been the
God-pleasing custom and order in our church to approve the
voluntary association of members in societies and agencies for the
purpose of practicing charity and administering to the needs of
fellow Christians; and

Whereas, These societies and agencies are in effect doing
work commanded all Christians and hence are effectively serving
our congregations and the church at large in their activities; and

Wuereas, Because of the multiplication of appeals by agencies
of the church as well as by secular and social agencies, and also
because of the increasing needs of our people for social services,
these charitable agencies have met with increasing difficulties in
the task of financing their God-pleasing work; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Twenty-eighth Delegate Synod of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

a. Recommend to all our people the support of these agencies
by their prayers and their gifts, as God has prospered them;

b. Recommend to all congregations of Synod that they foster
and support these agencies of mercy by permitting them to appeal
to the members of the congregation for support;

c. Recommend to all congregations of Synod that these agencies
be included, if possible, in the regular budget of the congregation
and/or that they make an annual energetic and systematic effort
to gather funds for charity in order to insure proper and propor-

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