# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S298
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298 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 11

Bylaws and appear as a separate article or as a division of an
article including more appropriately related synodical services;

d. That section II of the memorial be declined and that the
final placement of the Board of World Relief in the Handbook be
left to the standing Committee on Constitutional Matters.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Projection of Synodical Work Program
RESOLUTION 23A, COMMITTEE 11

Memorials 801A, pages 582—586, Reporis and Memorials
801A Supplement, pages 82—83, Today’s Business

Wuereas, After many months of gathering facts and figures,
and many days of consultation with the boards responsible to
Synod for the furtherance of their.respective work, and after much
prayer and deliberation, the Synod’s Board of Directors has pre-
sented the anticipated work program for the next two triennia; and

Wuereas, In this six-year projection, the anticipated needs
substantially exceed the projected income; and

Wuereas, The closing of the probable gap between projected
needs and anticipated income will require the united and con-
secrated efforts of all congregations and members of the Synod; and

Wuereas, The Synod has demonstrated an increasing potential
through the implementation of the Venture of Faith, particularly
in those congregations where the program has been well planned
and properly executed; and

Wuereas, The Circuit Counselors’ Conference of 1955, repre-
senting all areas of the Synod, firmly and unanimously proposed
the policy of an all-inclusive budget (operational and capital
funds); and

Wuereas, The 1956 synodical convention gave wholehearted
approval to this Venture of Faith with its Every-Member-Visit
program; and

Wuereas, At this time approximately half of our congrega-
tions have already accepted and implemented this excellent pro-
gram of meeting our mission-stewardship responsibility; there-
fore be it

Resolved:

1. That we rejoice in the manifest blessings of God as demon-
strated by the results already achieved in the first three years of
Our Venture of Faith (an increase of $2,175,000, or 18%, in offer-

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