# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S97
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

98 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 2

President Lloyd H. Goetz (left) of the North Wisconsin District,
member of the convention floor committee on finances and
stewardship, points out for Walter R. Rugland of Appleton,
Wis., and Miss Marie Louise Gebhardt of St. Louis, employed in
the Synod’s Stewardship Department, countries in the world
where the Missouri Synod hos planted the banner of the
Kingdom.

Resolved, That our Board for World Missions, in co-
operation with the national churches overseas wherever
they are located, but otherwise independently, study all
possible opportunities for the expansion, consolidation,
and intensification of its outreach to the non-Christian
world on the basis of a careful and detailed survey of
its present operations; and be it further

Resolved, That our Board for World Missions develop
an aggressive and imaginative plan of outreach by using
to best advantage modern means of communication,
especially literature, radio, and television; and be it
further

Resolved, That the Division of World Missions always
be mindful of the need for sharing mission responsibility
of the Missouri Synod with sister churches and missions
everywhere; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Board of Directors and the Fiscal
Conference be urged to take all possible steps to in-
crease our Synod’s expenditures for overseas missions
in proportion to the rich measure with which God has
blessed us as individuals and as a church body.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Literacy and Literature — to Encourage
Greater Emphasis
RESOLUTION 2-16
Report 204, p. 116, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, Through various literacy programs mil-
lions of people annually are learning to read and then
eagerly look for suitable literature to read; and

Wuereas, Godless and anti-Christian literature, in
attractive dress at very low cost, is flooding the book
markets of the world or is given away free; and

Wuereas, The Synod in its 1959 convention created

a Literacy and Literature Committee consisting of the
executives and one board member of each of the mission
boards, which committee, together with Concordia Pub-
lishing House and Concordia Tract Mission, has co-
ordinated and expanded the literature programs in our
world mission; and

Wuereas, Many individuals have generously con-
tributed toward this program, and the Lutheran Wom-
en’s Missionary League has made a grant of $70,000
available to develop and implement special pilot projects
for mass dissemination of Christian literature; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the mission boards of our Synod be
encouraged to give even greater emphasis to the de-
velopment of effective indigenous literature programs
including —

1) recruitment and training of writers on the mis-

sion fields;

2) publication of all types of Christian literature;

3) effective methods of mass distribution of litera-

ture;

4) establishment of book stores and distribution

centers;

and be it further

Resolved, That, in accordance with the resolution of
the 1959 synodical convention, “the mission boards be
encouraged to request the necessary funds from the
Fiscal Conference to carry out this program.”

Action: This resolution was adopted.

To Support Medical Missions
RESOLUTION 2-17
Reports 207, 208, pp. 122—124, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The medical mission work of our church,
despite its setbacks and difficulties, should stir the entire
church to gratitude to God for its results at home and
overseas; and

Wuereas, The chief handicap experienced by its
workers is the difficulty to reach doctors, nurses, and
students with the information and challenge of medical
missions; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod express its appreciation to
the medical missionaries and their national co-workers,
the Medical Mission Council and the Lutheran Medical
Mission Association and to the Wheat Ridge Foundation,
for this work; and be it

Resolved, That the Synod urge all clergymen, teach-
ers, and laymen who receive reports and appeals of the
Medical Mission Council and the Lutheran Medical Mis-
sion Association to share in the task of enlisting person-
nel in this great lay ministry and include medical mis-
sions in programs of recruitment for Christian voca-
tions; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod take to heart the great
need of long-term key staff workers in the major areas
of the mission field; and be it further

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