# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S756
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756 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

be served just as well by geographical designations of new or
old mission projects; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod dis-
courage the use of this term in the mission reports of Synod and
of its various Districts, and in all other literature published by
Synod or members of it, and that where it is desirable to express
the thought of churches in Negro communities, the term “church,
or mission, in a Negro community” or some other acceptable form
of expression, be used; and be it further

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod declare
it as its policy that in the future no missions should be started
which have as their express purpose to serve people of one racial
or national group to the exclusion of others; and be it further

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod en-
courage all of its existing churches to make a serious effort to
reach all people in their respective neighborhoods, regardless of
race and color.

(For purposes of clarity it should be stated, and this should
be included with the Memorial, that we are in no sense endeavoring
to eriticize churches which by virtue of the fact that they are in
all-white or all-Negro neighborhoods have members of only one
color or race, nor are we overlooking the fact that necessity of
language may mean churches which serve only one national group.)

Accepted at a regular meeting of the congregation on Monday,
March 12, 1956.
St. Parure’s LuTHERAN CuHurcH, St. Louis, Mo.

Otis E. Frntey, President
Rosert STREATOR, Secretary

Synodical Policy Re Desegregation
(Memorial 1016)

At a regular meeting of the St. Louis Chapter of the Lutheran
Human Relations Association of America in St. Peter’s Church,
St. Louis, Mo., on Passion Sunday [Judica, 5th Sunday in Lent],
March 18, 1956, the following resolution was passed without dissent:

“Be it Resolved, That the St. Louis Chapter of the Lutheran
Human Relations Association of America address a Memorial to
the 1956 Triennial Synod of The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod at St.Paul, Minn., urgently requesting the said Synod to
express itself to this effect:

“Wuereas, All men are equal before God under the Law and
under grace;