# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S320
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320 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 13

Extension of Institutional Chaplaincy Services
RESOLUTION 17, COMMITTEE 13
Memorial 1009, page 703, Reports and Memorials
Resolved, That Resolution 1, page 703 of Reports and Memo-
rials, be adopted.
Action: This resolution was adopted.

Note: Resolution 1 reads as follows:

Wuereas, God has been pleased to bless the efforts of our insti-
tutional chaplains throughout the years; and

Wuereas, Many new opportunities to carry on this blessed
missionary work are constantly developing; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Twenty-ninth Delegate Synod of The Lu-
theran Church — Missouri Synod

1. Recommend to all Districts that through their mission
boards or committees or through boards and committees for insti-
tutional chaplaincy services they seek out such developing oppor-
tunities for institutional chaplaincy services and do everything pos-
sible to take advantage of them by securing the appointment of
pastors of our Synod as chaplains in county, state, and Federal
institutions of all kinds, by calling pastors into full-time service
as institutional chaplains, and by appointing parish pastors serving
congregations in the vicinity of such institutions as part-time chap-
lains; and

2. Direct the Department of Social Welfare of Synod to give
increased aid to synodical Districts and voluntary chaplaincy agen-
cies within Synod in extending present institutional chaplaincy
programs and in developing new programs of service.

Support of Welfare Agencies in Synod
RESOLUTION 18, COMMITTEE 13

Memorial 1009, pages 703—704, Reports and Memorials

Resolved, That Resolution 2, pages 703—704 of Reports and Me-
morials, be adopted.

Action: This resolution was adopted.
Nore: Resolution 2 reads as follows:

Wuereas, The Holy Scriptures admonish all Christians to “bear
one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ”; and

Wuereas, The welfare agencies within Synod are assisting both
individual Christians and the congregations of Synod in following
this divine directive; and