# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S732
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732 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

these institutions under the auspices of the Mission Board and with
the permission of their congregations as their time will permit;

2. Recommend to the theological seminaries of our church that
they seek to establish accredited training centers in Lutheran hos-
pitals and other institutions for the training of institutional chap-
lains for the work of the church;

3. Direct the Department of Social Welfare to aid the sem-
inaries in every possible way in establishing such training centers,

ACTION
Committee 13 recommended and Synod resolved:

Resolution 3

Subject: Training of Institutional Chaplains

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

chaplaincies 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
training, 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

Wuereas, 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 District funds entrusted to them for the work of missions;

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

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