# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S312 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) A guide to “Unpublished Reports and Overtures graphed’ Reports and Overtures” (““M” Reports and resolutions. Additional helps are the table of Cont Overtures (pp. 307, 308), the List of ““M” Reports and Ov TOPICAL INDEX Overtures Correlated with Resolutions (pp. 310, 311). ABC radio and television network 181 Able Ministers of the New Testament, companion volume to 141 Acceptance statement of President-elect Oliver R. Harms 15 Accreditation 141, 142 Adam and Eve 101 Administration Administration, Committee on Synodi- cal 114 . | Administrators, Council of 12, 111, 114, 124, 126 Appeals, Board of 113, 130—133, 135, 136 appointive or elective boards etc., prin- ciples for determining 114 Armed Forces Commission 116 ; board, commission, council, committee elective or appointive 114 Canada 111, 118 College and University Work, Board for 82, 113, 116 . Control, Boards of, election schedule 114 Directors, Board of 113, 122, 124 District presidencies, full-time 116, 117 Districts, size and boundaries 115 division chairmen 115 divisional grouping 115 election procedure Circuit Counselors 113 1965 convention 112 . synodical and District Presidents 112 election schedule for Boards of Control 114 Evangelism Committee 117 Evangelism, Department of 82, 117 Executive Director 124 full-time District presidencies 116, 117 Handbook changes 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118—122, 122, 123 headquarters, synodical 112 KFUO 112, 181 Missions, Board for 81, 82, 117 nomenclature 115, 116, 122, 124 Praesidium 117 President address 7-10 . administrative and other duties 136 represented at District Work Program and budget-setting meetings 117 supervision of doctrine and admin- jstration 133, 134 triennial report 11—14, 124 President-elect Oliver R. Harms accep- tance statement 15 Presidents, Council of 117 Public Relations, Board for 116 purchasing agencies, centralized 116 sabbatical leave for staff members 116 Stewardship, Mission Education, and Promotion, Board for 112 Support and Pensions, Board of 60, 112, 172 terms of office of District officers and boards 112, 113 Vice-Presidents increased from four to five 112 report of First 124 Western District realignment 115 World Relief, Board of 116 . Administrators, Council of See Adminis- tration Adult Education 156 Advance site acquisition 87 “Affirmations on God’s Mission” 88 Africa 85, 93, 141, 193 Aid Association for Lutherans 143, 191 Ainsworth, Russell 181 Alaska 181 ‘American Bible Society 193—195 American Lutheran Church 13, 105, 106 Amortization 191 ‘Ann Arbor college 141, 144, 145, 146, 148 Anniversary 25th of O. A. Dorn as general manager of Concordia Publishing House (1965) 5 1 40th of Missouri Synod association with Valparaiso University (1965) 188 70th of Missouri Synod foreign missions (1965) 83 ; 100th of Lutheran Education (1965) 141 150th of the American Bible Society (1966) 193—195 450th of the Reformation (1967) 179 100th of Missouri Synod professional welfare services (1968) 168 125th of the Missouri Synod (1972) 196 Appeal case 134 Appeals Board of See Administration Handbook changes 113, 130—133 Appointive or elective boards etc. principles for determining 114 Architecture, Commission on 130, 153, 195 Arena 162, 164 Argentina 137 Armed Forces Commission 116, 189 Asia 93 See also names of countries Audiovisual Aids Department of Concordia Publishing House 183 Audit, District Church Extension 89 Augsburg Lutheran Center of Studies, Mexico 86 Austin college 144, 148 Australia 13, 97 Authenticity of New Testament books 100 Auxiliary organizations 122 See also names of organizations Beck, Wm. Old Testament translation 183 Bequeathing human bodies 195 Bible versions, English 94, 95 Birkner, Walter C. 6, 197 Blind, Board for Missions to 82 Blind persons in full-time church em- ployment 86 Bloom, William 128 Boards elected 75, 76 See also names of boards Boy Scouts 165 Brazil 84, 137, 146, 151 Bretscher, Paul 187 Brief Statement 102 British and Foreign Bible Society 193 Bronxville Collegiate Institute 95,143, 144, 1 Budget, annual 129 Buenos Aires 137 CBC radio and television network 181 CBS radio and television network 181 California St. Louis seminary extension center pro- posed 147 , Camp Fire Girls 165 Campus Ministry 86 Canada 86, 111, 118, 130, 140, 144, 148, 176, 177, 179, 196, 306 Canadian Bible Society 193 Capital investments 87, 93, 148—-150, 151 Catechism 95, 157, 158 Censorship policies of Synod 183, 184 Central Illinois District thankoffering for Springfield, Ill, seminary chapel 142 Chabot See San Leandro Chaplains, institutional 167, 169 Child-care agencies 168 Christian Century 127 Christian education as a function of the church 155, 156 “Christian” in Concordia Publishing House publications 99 Church Christ’s mission 80, 81 to the church 80 to the whole man 81 to the whole society 80, 81 to the whole world 80 God’s mission 79, 80 Church Architecture, Committee on See Architecture, Commission on “Church Ever Lives in the Afterglow of Easter”; convention essays 29——51 Church Extension accounting procedures 89 Board for 82, 89—92 Handbook changes 89—92 legal counsel 89 report forms and audit, District 89 thankoffering share 193 Church fellowship 96 Church Government, Division of 115 Church League of America 102 Church Literature, Commission on 182, 183, 184 Church Literature, Division of 115, 182 Church, literature and publications 182 to ministry of the printed word 185 report of Division of Church Literature 18 survey of publications for youth 164 312 ** (“UN” Reports and Overtures) and to “ ‘Mimeo- Overtures) is found in the references at the related ents (pp.3, 4), the List of “UN” Reports and ertures (p. 309), and the List of Reports and theological publications not easily ac- cessible or out of print 184 Church of South India 104 Church relations 104—-111 American Lutheran Church 13,105, 106 Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Norwe- gian) 13, 105 free conferences 106 India Evangelical Lutheran Church 104 interconfessional research 111 International Council of Christian Churches 106 Lutheran Church in America 13, 106 Lutheran Council in Canada 111 Lutheran Council in the United States of America 106—111, 299—306 Lutheran World Federateion 13, 111 Lutheranism, influence of 106 ministerial associations 111 missions 104, 105 National Council of Churches 104 National Evangelical Lutheran Church (Finnish) 13 National Lutheran Council 13 Orthodox Catholic 13 Presbyterians 13 Reformed 13 . relations with other churches 13, 106 Roman Catholic 13 sister churches 13, 106 Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (Slovak) 13 Synodical Conference 104 theological principles to guide the de- velopment of missions and the rela- tionship between the Synod and vari- ous sister mission churches 104, 105 See also names of countries and other geographical areas of church work; Theology and Church Relations, Com- mission on Circuit Counselors 113 Clinical pastoral education 167 Closing address 19, 20 College and university work 82, 86, 87, 113, 116, 182 College of Presidents See Council of Pres- idents Colloquies 136, 137, 138, 139 Commission 75 See also names of Commissions Communications and public relations 115, Concordia, Mo., college 144, 146, 148 Concordia College and Concordia Semi- nary See names of cities where lo- cated Concordia Historical Institute 168, 188 Concordia Publishing House 181, 182, 183, 184, 185 Concordia Publishing House Ltd., London Concordia Retirement Plan 173, 174 Concordia Tract Mission 182 Concordia Welfare Plan 116, 173, 174 Confessions, subscription to Lutheran 98 Confirmation instruction 155 Conflict of interest 127 Congregations transferring from one Dis- trict to another 126 Constitution. congregation 125 Synod 125, 126, 134 Constitutional matters 124—136 Contact pastors for Veterans Administra- tion hospitals 195 Continuation Committee of the Interna- tional Lutheran Theological Confer- ence 106 Control, Boards of 103, 114 136 Controller 122, 123 Controllership, Division of 114, 191 Convention arrangements 129 authority of delegate convention 118 closing address 19, 20 delegates certification 128 selection 123 essays 29—51 floor committees 76—78 hymnal 186 manual 122 minutes 60—78 Handbook directive 126, 127 news channeled through Department of Public Relations 180 Nominations, Board for instructed 89