# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S83
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CONVENTION MINUTES 83

Youth.” President George Wittmer of the Western District served
as liturgist.
The minutes of Monday afternoon were adopted as read.

Committee 16 — Nominations
The slate of candidates for the Board of Support and Pensions
was approved.

Committee 5— Young People’s Work

Resolutions were adopted stressing the importance of active
youth committees in all congregations (TB 343, 1), encouraging
young people in their New Dimensions program (TB 348, 2), and
urging that the youth program be made a financial responsibility
of the congregations and Districts (TB 344, 3, as amended). Reso-
lution 8 was recommitted.

Committee 11 — Finances

The convention endorsed the establishment of The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod Foundation and urged the use of the
Foundation in making special gifts (TB 374, 19 and 20). After sev-
eral additional amendments had been defeated, a resolution was
adopted urging all congregations to conduct annually a well-
planned and effectively executed every-member stewardship visit
(TB 249, 7, as previously amended). Further discussion on Reso-
lution 8 was postponed.

Committee 2— Missions

Arrangements were made to increase the number of laymen
on the Church Extension Board to four (TB 273, 40) and to over-
lap the terms of office (TB 274, 41). Resolutions were adopted
encouraging the work of our Philippine church among the Moslems
(TB 169, 22), thanking the LLL, LWML, WL, and the Wheat Ridge
Foundation for their contributions to the foreign mission work
(TB 169, 23), appointing a committee to supply the needs presented
by the problem of illiteracy in many foreign lands (TB 154, 2),
establishing a lecture bureau for missionaries home on furlough
(TB 155, 3), expressing sympathy to the family of Missionary A. K.
Graf (TB 171, 25), extending warm appreciation to Dr. O. H.
Schmidt, formerly Executive Secretary of the Board for Missions
in Foreign Countries (TB 172, 26), and giving recognition to Pastor
O. C. Schroeder for 50 years of service to the blind and deaf
(TB 165, 16). It was also decided to continue the conferences for
workers among the deaf (TB 165, 17), to recognize the 57 years
of service to the deaf on the part of Dr. J. L. Salvner (TB 166, 18),
to increase the scope of the work on college campuses (TB 239, 31),