# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S253
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

C. The Governmental Divisions
a. The Division of Church Government
b. The Division of Doctrine and Church Relations

D. The Administrative Divisions
a. The Division of Staff Services
b. The Division of Finance
c. The Division of Controllership

3. That the Joint Committee (referred to in Group I, Section I,
Resolution 3b) shall assign the various synodical agencies to divi-
sions, after consultation with the affected agencies during the
next triennium. Such assignments of agencies may be changed
from time to time under such procedural regulations as the Synod
may adopt in subsequent conventions;

4, That all synodical agencies established in the future shall,
as far as desirable and practicable, be assigned to divisions;

5. That agencies and boards within a division shall be en-
couraged to plan at least one joint meeting each year in order
to co-ordinate policy development and broad planning within the
divisions.

Section III, pages 424 to 425, Changes in, and Additions to, Synod-
ical Boards

Resolved:

1. That the responsibility for Middle and South American
missions and any other missions outside continental United States
and Canada be transferred from the Board for Missions in North
and South America to the Board for Missions in Foreign Countries;

2. That each transfer take place only after there has been
adequate consultation between the boards involved. The Board
for Missions in Foreign Countries shall undertake no major
changes in policy or administrative procedure unless there has
been adequate consultation with the administrative personnel in
the Middle and South American fields;

3. That the title of the Board for Missions in Foreign Coun-
tries be changed to the “Board for World Missions” and that the
title of the Board for Missions in North and South America be
changed to the “Board for North American Missions”;

4. That the size of the Board for World Missions be increased
by three additional members to enable this board to accommodate
its added responsibilities and that this increase shall be made
when both the Board for North American Missions and the Board
for World Missions report to the President of the Synod that the