# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S207
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SYNODICAL ADMINISTRATION 207

PRESENT
VIII. Church Literature

Concordia Publishing House/Board of Directors
Commission on Church Literature

IX. Special Ministries

Armed Forces Commission
Board of Stewardship, Mission Education and Promotion

Concordia Historical Institute

X. Finance

Treasurer’s Staff

Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod Foundation
Board of Pensions and Support

Board of Trustees for Trust Funds

XI. Controllership
Systems
Audit
Accounting
Budget
XII. Staff Services

Research and Statistics

Personnel

Purchasing and Production

Data Processing

Convention Management

Building Services and Property Management
Legal Counselor

Records Management

Transportation Department

Commission on Ministerial Health

PKOPOSED
(Eliminate)
(Transfer to F)
(Transfer to F)
(Eliminate)

(Transfer to C)

(Transfer Stewardship and Mission Education to E, and Pro-
motion to G)

(Transfer to H)

G. Finance, Controllership, and Resource Development
(title change)

Treasury Department
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod Foundation
(Transfer to H)
Board of Trustees for Trust Funds
Department of Controllership
Department of Resource Development

(from IX [Promotion])

(Consolidate with X, and transfer to G)

H. Staff Services

Research and Statistics

Personnel

Purchasing and Production

Data Processing

Convention Management

Building Services and Property Management
Legal Counselor

Records Management

Transportation Department

Commission on Ministerial Health

Board of Managers/Concordia Plans (from IV)
Board of Pensions and Support (from X)
Concordia Historical Institute (from IX)

(4-04)
Report of Executive Director

This general delegate convention of the Synod marks
the 10th anniversary of the first report of the Synodical
Survey Commission. The adoption of much of the re-
port at the San Francisco convention in 1959 initiated
a series of far-reaching changes not all of which, though
enacted, have as yet gone into effect.

The oral report of this office to this convention will
attempt an overview of the major developments in syn-
odical administration, extrinsically and intrinsically, in
the intervening years and will essay some indication of
the desirable future lines of development in the unend-
ing effort to facilitate the attainment of synodical ob-
jectives with greater effectiveness, heightened efficiency,
and economies of scale, time, manpower, and money in
the face of growth and change.

In addition to the Executive Director’s direct ac-
countability to the Synod in convention, it may be im-
portant to indicate the three primary clusters of func-
tion assigned to the office: acting as chief executive
officer of the Board of Directors, providing regular and
special assistance to the synodical President in matters
of his administration, and chairing the Council of Ad-
ministrators in its consultative, advisory, communica-
tive, coordinating, and evaluative tasks.

As originally constituted, the council included 16
members. By 1967 the number had been decreased by
two. Divisional realignment already under way will
reduce the number further and desirably shrink the
span. Meanwhile it may not be generally realized that
of the present members of the council less than half
were original members these few short years ago.

The past biennium witnessed important changes in
its membership. Rev. Kenneth M. Lindsay and Dr. Wil-
liam H. Kohn as new division chairmen took seats on
the council. Two of the original members, Dr. John E.
Herrmann and Dr. Robert P. Hopmann, relinquished
their council membership, the former to enter upon
honorable retirement after long and distinguished syn-
odical leadership and service, the latter to continue his
synodical service in another locale as administrative
staff member of Concordia Teachers College, River
Forest. Mr. William J. Barge took over as head of the
Division of Staff Services and as administrative assistant
to the Executive Director.

The Council of Administrators in a separate report
will be responding to a special assignment given to it.

This has been a fruitful period in synodical adminis-
tration. Both manpower and money and other material
resources constitute for the church on earth an economy
of scarce resources in the very midst of great imbalance