# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S49
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISSIONS 49

lishing of this program not initially anticipated are as
follows:

a) Congregations aided by a synodical program will-
ingly respond to a synodical need and synodical request.

b) The response of beneficiary congregations in pro-
motion is vital in our determination to maintain and
continue this loan program of service.

c) Tangible evidence of service rendered by a cor-
porate body in a program operated solely and totally
by that body.

d) Visible evidence of unselfish love and service
because of the response of concerned and interested
individuals to help fellow Christians in finding a solu-
tion to their needs.

e) To make it possible for individuals and groups
needing a fair yield on their investments to dedicate
also the use of these funds in the service and work of
the church.

f) Recognizing opportunities for growth, expansion,
and service of the established congregation.

Advance Site

The objectives of Advance Site are as relevant and
important today as they were at the time the program
was established. In fact. circumstances and accompany-
ing related factors have even advanced reasons of neces-
sity and importance for priority and attention.

The basic objective is still one of maximizing loca-
tion and minimizing cost. Increasing demands on bud-
gets of congregations, Districts, and the Synod make a
program of minimizing costs very important.

Appreciation of land values has prompted other
groups to enter into similar programs of acquisitions
but for different purposes. Investments in land have
consistently provided for increased values. The entry
of other interests in land acquisition has increased com-
petition for buying at minimal costs. This emphasizes
the importance of planning, projecting, and forecasting
on a long-range basis.

Limited funds for capital made it necessary to take
the most radical action in our Advance Site acquisition
program. This program has been completely halted.
Even though prospects for a solution to the problem
of providing adequate amounts for capital investment
needs of budget are not in sight, we must plan to con-
tinue by considering alternatives so we do not com-
pletely lose our advantage from past studies and in-
vestments.

Service-Charge Loans

Amounts for Service-Charge loan funds are also
supplied from the capital investment section of the
synodical budget.

Eligibility of these loans are from the following areas
of specialized ministries:

Student Centers
Strategic Ministries

Inner City
Minority Groups

The importance and necessity of this program

makes it mandatory that steps be taken immediately to
proceed to find a solution to these capital investment
needs.

Areas of Attention

1. Explore added areas of capital investment need
as it relates to opportunities in the foreign mission fields.
Results of previous investment programs could be in-
dicating new approaches to foreign mission budget so-
lutions.

2. Explore the possibility of providing accounting
services as it relates to electronic processes currently
being used.

3. Consider the use of resource people on a regional
basis for Church Extension promotion, management,
and accounting.

4. Provide annual assessments of programs after
uniform terminology and accounting have been adopted
in all Districts to make annual comparisons and evalua-
tions possible.

5. Operate a bank of church sites in major metro-
politan areas on a self-sustaining basis.

We again gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and
participation of Districts, congregations, agencies, col-
leges and seminaries, and many individuals.

More and more must we emphasize also the support
and helpfulness of the investment dollar in the program
of the church. The church has realized and enjoyed
returns from investment dollars in secular fields, but
we are only beginning to utilize the investment dollar
in church-related programs. This is the area that must
receive consideration, attention, and exploration on both
the short-range and the long-range basis.

A. W. Born, Chairman
Henry C. Rupp, Secretary
Frep E. Lietz, Executive Secretary

(1-04)

To Emphasize in Missions that There
Is Only One Way to Eternal Life

Wuereas, Numbers of foreign missionaries represent-
ing The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod have ap-
parently begun to deemphasize the need of all men for
a Savior. stressing rather that we are all creatures of

God; and

Whereas, This latter proclamation is hardly the mes-
sage our Lord meant when He said: “Go and preach
the Gospel to every creature”; and

Wuereas, The message that we are all creatures of
God does not save anyone, but only the glorious Good
News that the Lord Jesus Christ is the payment for our
sins; therefore be it

Resolved, That our mission training personnel reaf-
firm without reservation that there is but one way to
everlasting life and that way is through saving faith
in the one and only Savior, Jesus Christ; and be it
further

Resolved, That our mission counselors be instructed