# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S754
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

see fsa tp Sh EC

Se egret

754 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

2) that no mission shall be established with the express pur-
pose of serving only one racial or ethnic group on a segregated
basis (at the same time not overlooking the fact that there may
still be certain communities where because of the absence of
members of other racial or ethnic groups the constituency of
a congregation may be of one racial or ethnic group);

3) that congregations operating in so-called “blighted areas”
or changing communities be encouraged to continue operations
in those areas rather than relinquish their properties through sale
to other denominations, and that the various District Mission
Boards be encouraged to subsidize these congregations when this
becomes necessary, so that the souls in those communities, regard-
less of race or ethnic grouping, may be won and served.

Submitted for consideration and adoption by
THe CuHurcH Counci or Trinity Ev. LuTHERAN CHURCH
Los ANGELES, CALIF.

Im. F. Hoppe, Chairman
Leo A. KotuMeyer, Secretary

Identical (Par.1 and 2) by

First IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, CHICAGO, ILL.
RaurH LL. MOELLERING, Pastor

Re Establishment of Congregations
on a Nonsegregated Basis
(Memorial 410)

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, in
convention assembled in St. Paul, Minn., June 1956, be petitioned
to declare as its policy

1. That all congregations of Synod regard all persons living
within the limits of the parish, and not associated with another
Christian church, as individuals whom God would reach with the
Gospel of His saving grace through the ministry of the local
congregation;

2. That no new congregation be established with the support
of synodical funds unless it is clearly understood that all persons
regardless of race and color may share equally the treasures of
God’s grace and love with others in the congregation.

St. MatrHew LutHeran CHURCH
202 Suerman Ave., New Yor« 34, N. Y.

A. W. TRINKLEIN, Pastor
Wo. Dern, Secretary