# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S321
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MISCELLANEOUS 321

Wuereas, These charitable or welfare agencies are for various
and sundry reasons experiencing increasing difficulties in the
financing of their vital and God-pleasing work; therefore be it

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

A. Recommend to all members of our congregations the liberal
support of these agencies by their prayers and gifts; and

B. Recommend to all congregations of Synod that they either
include the support of such agencies in the budget of the congrega-
tion or that they provide in some other way for the regular support
of such agencies according to their needs; and

C. Recommend to all District welfare committees that they
secure information regarding the work and the need of support
of such agencies, and that they regularly transmit such information
to all congregations of the respective Districts; and

D. Direct the Department of Social Welfare to give increased
guidance and support to the welfare committees of synodical Dis-
tricts as well as to the welfare agencies within Synod to enable
them to improve and expand their services.

Establishment of Needed Welfare Services
RESOLUTION 19, COMMITTEE 13

Memorial 1009, page 704, Reports and Memorials

Resolved, That Resolution 3, page 704 of Reports and Memo-
rials, be adopted.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Nore: Resolution 3 reads as follows:

Wuereas, The increasing complexities of life in our age have
caused new needs for welfare services to develop among our peo-
ple; and

Wuereas, The welfare committees or boards of synodical Dis-
tricts have been charged with the duty, among others, of “wisely
and equitably ministering to the necessities of fellow Christians
and others who may be in need of charity”; therefore be it

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

A. Recommend to all District welfare committees or boards
that they make a careful study of newly developing welfare needs
among our people, particularly in the area of family life, and that
they then take appropriate steps to meet these needs; and