# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S198
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COMMITTEE 11 197

Proposed Regulations

Board of Stewardship, Mission Education, and Promotion
Membership

The board for the Department of Stewardship, Mis-
sion Education, and Promotion, consisting of five mem-

bers — two pastors, two laymen, and one teacher —
shall be elected by the Synod.

Representatives at Large

This group shall consist of a selected number of Dis-
trict stewardship leaders who shall serve the staff as
an advisory group in promoting the Synod’s stewardship
program in the field. These representatives shall be
appointed by the Stewardship Board of the Synod upon
recommendation of the Synod’s Stewardship Counselor.

Objective of Board

Our congregations and their members becoming
better stewards of God’s many and varied gifts to them.

Functions of Board

1. To assist our pastors and congregations in their
cultivation of the total stewardship life of their members
so that they the more fulfill their responsibilities as
members of a Christian congregation;

2. To provide counsel and materials for our congre-
gations as they endeavor to enlist the talents of our
members for Kingdom service in and through their
congregations;

3. To plan and make available to the congregations
an ongoing program of mission education and thereby
develop a missionary concern among our people;

4. To interpret the Synod’s purpose and program
to our people with the purpose of developing an ever
greater appreciation of what the Synod means to them
and a growing realization of the many services it ren-
ders (internal public relations) ;

5. To aid our pastors and congregations effectively
in teaching their members the grace of proportionate
giving as well as counseling congregations how to prac-
tice proportionate (corporate) giving;

6. To encourage our congregations regularly, ade-
quately, and generously to support their program
through District and Synod;

7. To provide our congregations with the necessary
materials to conduct an effective annual every-member
stewardship visit;

8. To evaluate professional and voluntary capital
fund-raising services and programs offered to, or pro-
vided for, the congregations of the Synod and its Dis-
tricts;

9. To study and evaluate contemporary trends in
voluntary giving to agencies and projects within the
Synod and its component Districts.

In order to carry out its functions, the board —

a. will seek to achieve definite and recognized work
relationships with those departments of the Synod whose
cooperation is vital to its program;

b. plan and prepare an adequate program;

c. look to the President of the Synod and his assist-
ants to channel its program to and through the Districts
to the congregations of the Synod;

d. periodically conduct stewardship conferences on
a Synodwide and/or regional basis;

e. counsel with District Presidents and District stew-
ardship leaders to adapt their District stewardship pro-
gram;

f. tabulate and file information on the activities,
problems, and progress of the stewardship program on
synodical, District, circuit, and congregational level and
periodically share the same where it may prove helpful;

g. produce materials necessary to carry out an effec-
tive stewardship program throughout the Synod;

h. cooperate with those synodical departments offer-
ing specific programs and services to the congregations
of the Synod for the purpose of coordinating these pro-
grams and services into one overall program;

i. provide information to the Board of Directors of
the Synod in the projection of synodical income on a
long- and short-range basis;

j. submit annually the budget of the department to
the Board of Directors of the Synod for its recommenda-
tion and referral to the Fiscal Conference;

k. develop such interdepartmental work relation-
ships as are necessary to the fuller attainment of its
functions.

Staff
Personnel and Selection of Staff

a. The Stewardship Board shall appoint the Stew-
ardship Counselor in accordance with the Handbook
regulations of the Synod.

The Stewardship Counselor shall under the direction
of the board carry out the program of duties assigned to
him by the board.

b. The Stewardship Board shall appoint the Asso-
ciate Stewardship Counselors, as needed, in accordance
with Handbook regulations of the Synod and shall work
in areas of the program as are assigned to them by the
board.

c. The Stewardship Board shall determine the quali-
fications for the offices of the Stewardship Counselor
and the Associate Stewardship Counselors and deter-
mine their duties and functions.

District Board of Stewardship, Mission Education

Membership and Promotion

Each synodical District shall elect or in some other
way create a committee or board of stewardship.

Function

The District board shall cooperate with the Synod’s
Board of Stewardship, Mission Education and Promo-
tion and shall assist and advise the local congregation
in the development and promotion of an adequate stew-
ardship program.