# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S731
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 731

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

d. Direct the Department of Social Welfare to gather infor-
mation 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.

On Institutional Chaplaincies and Training of Chaplains
(Report 1009)

Wuereas, God has been pleased to bless the work of our
church in its ministry to the sick confined in hospitals and to the
residents in many types of custodial and correctional institu-
tions; and

Wuereas, Opportunities to serve an ever greater number of
the sick, the forsaken, and the forgotten by newly created chap-
laincies in public institutions are multiplying in every section of
our country; and ,

Wuereas, Increasingly administrators of hospitals and other
institutions require that chaplains have the benefit of special train-
ing, known as Clinical Training in Pastoral Care and given under
the supervision of theological seminaries in clinical settings such as
hospitals by trained chaplains; and

Wouereas, Many opportunities to preach the Gospel to the sick
and the poor will be lost to our church if our institutional chaplains
do not receive such training; therefore be it

Resolved by the Twenty-eighth Delegate Synod of The Lu-
theran Church — Missouri Synod to

1. Recommend to the Mission Boards of all synodical Districts
and to the welfare agencies of our church who foster institutional
chaplaincies that they

a. Resolve to support chaplaincies, or the ministry of our
church in institutions, with their prayers and as much as possible
also with the funds entrusted to them for the work of missions;

b. Survey the area in which each District Mission Board func-
tions, to discover new opportunities for an institutional ministry;

c. Resolve to grant institutional chaplains already serving
under their auspices, and chaplains newly called into the field,
opportunities to secure clinical training in pastoral care to better
equip them for their work;

d. Seek to persuade parish pastors serving congregations in
the vicinity of institutions to render part-time pastoral service in