# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S218
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2158 SYNODICAL ADMINISTRATION

(4-23)
To Refine Procedure
of Fiscal Review Commission

Resolved, That a memorial be sent to the Synod as
a recommendation that the annual synodical Fiscal
Review Commission be organized in such a manner
that the prospectus of program requirements may be
reviewed in greater detail by division of the budget
or other reasonable grouping, so that these particular
study groups may come back and make their respective
budget recommendations to the total assembly for final
adoption. Boarp OF DIRECTORS
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
LotHar KuEINHANS, Secretary

(4-24)
To Provide Semester of Study
for 20-Year Pastors

Recognizing the value and necessity of the continued
professional growth of the pastors of Synod: concerned
about the swift currents of social change and upheaval:
and realizing that it is difficult to keep abreast of con-
temporary theological study: therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod, meeting in convention in Denver, Colorado,
July 1969, implement and make possible a program for
pastors who have served faithfully for at least 20 years
to have at least one semester of time to devote to per-
sonal study and growth in academic surroundings.

The resolution is submitted to the Synod for a num-
ber of reasons:

1. Since most pastors do not live in the vicinity of
an institution of higher learning whose courses would
foster theological growth and understanding, it would
be necessary to obtain the services of a vicar or a re-
tired pastor to grant them a leave of absence for study.

2. The average congregation cannot financially af-
ford to release the pastor for any sustained period of
time.

3. The Synod, therefore, should on a regional basis
make available to congregations whose pastors have
served 20 years a short-term replacement person, either
a vicar or a recent seminary graduate.

4. Professors of all institutions of higher learning
receive sabbatical leave. Pastors, who are expected to
meet people on every plane of life and living, should
have the same options as do our professors in institu-
tions of higher learning. Curist LuTHERAN CHURCH
Albany, N. Y.

ARTHUR H. GeruarDT, Pastor

(4-25)

To Send “Workbook” and “Proceedings”
to All Lay Members of Boards
and Commissions After Their Election
Wuereas, Laymen who are elected or reelected to

boards and commissions of the Synod are able to render
effective service only if they are fully informed on their

area of responsibility and on the total program of the
Synod; and

Wuereas, The Convention Workbook and the Pro-
ceedings of the Synod contain the information and the
resolutions with which all lay members of boards and
commissions ought to be familiar; therefore be it

Resolved, That all lay members elected or reelected
to boards and commissions of the Synod receive a copy
of the Convention Workbook and the Proceedings of the
Synod as soon as possible after their election or re-

election, ZI0N LUTHERAN CHURCH

Bay City, Mich.
L. N. Wuitman, Secretary

(4-26)
To Initiate Unified Mailing

WHEREAS, There is an increasing amount of materials,
reports, and literature reaching the desks of pastors and
other administrators from the various offices and boards
of both the District and the Synod as well as from the
publishing house; and

Wuereas, The result of such scattered mailings is that
they frequently receive little or no attention; and

Wuereas, A unified monthly or bimonthly mailing
has proved to be beneficial in The American Lutheran
Church; and

Wuereas, A unified monthly or bimonthly mailing
might well prove to be economically advantageous: and

Whereas, A unified monthly or bimonthly mailing
might well assist the offices and boards of the District
and the Synod and also the publishing house in selecting
the most important materials for mailing and in cutting
down on the verbosity; and

Wuereas, A unified monthly or bimonthly mailing
might well receive more careful attention from the pas-
tors and other administrators than the present scattered
approach: therefore be it

Resolved, That our District memorialize The Lu-
theran Church — Missouri Synod to begin a monthly
or bimonthly mailing in the pattern of the present uni-
fied mailing of The American Lutheran Church, for all
offices and boards, along with the publishing house.

Micuican DIstTRIcT
Epwin H. Roeurs, Secretary

(4-27)

To Recognize Part-time Ministries
Need

Wuereas, There is a shortage of professionally trained
ministers, with 425 pastoral vacancies in the United
States and even more in our sister churches overseas,
and these can be expected to increase in the future: and

WHEREAS, Many of these congregations are too small
to support a full-time pastor or lay assistant, yet closing
the congregations would hamper Christian education
and outreach in those communities and sharing a pastor
would deprive many of them of a resident pastor; and