# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S748
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748 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

that can be carried on by mail. It requires a personal visit, and
usually personal visits on a regular and extended schedule.
It specializes in the difficult pastoral care of pre-operative, seriously
ill, terminal, TB, and mentally ill patients. It is calling forth in
our church in increasing measure pastors especially trained and
consecrated for this specialized ministry. The church must stay in
the forefront of a growing public awareness and concern for these
actual and potential suffering children of God.

During the past triennium several changes have occurred
in the Armed Services Commission. The membership of the Com-
mission includes Dr. P. L. Dannenfeldt, Chairman; O. A. Sauer,
Secretary; Pastors F. C. Proehl, O. C. Busse, A. M. Weber, and
Mr. O. C. Rentner as members. The Commission has expressed
its appreciation of many years of devoted service to former mem-
bers Prof. O. E. Sohn and Mr. T. Schlake.

Rev. Kenneth L. Ahl is Executive Secretary; W. E. Kraemer
is Assistant and Associate Executive Secretary on the Lutheran
Service Commission; and L. Brose is in charge of Publicity and
Literature.

In 1954 the headquarters of the Commission were moved to

a new location within the District of Columbia at 2633 Sixteenth
St., N. W. — Washington’s Lutheran Church Center.

The military in America is today the greatest “educational”
institution of our country, affecting more individuals and influenc-
ing them more intensively than any other system of schooling.
As with all educational influences, the military must be infused
with the spiritual values we cherish. This is the privilege and
purpose of the Armed Services Commission — that none be lost.

KENNETH L, AHL, Executive Secretary
WALTER E. Kraemer, Assistant Executive Secretary

ACTION

Committee 13 brought in five resolutions covering the items
in this report. These recommendations were adopted:

Resolution 10
Subject: Commendation to Armed Services Commission

Wuereas, In the unsearchable ways of God our petitions for
peace in our time have not yet been fully granted and we live
in a world that is an armed camp; and

Wuereas, Our beloved nation is still compelled to maintain

a military establishment of unprecedented strength even in the
absence of total war; and

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