# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S494
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

STEWARDSHIP AND FINANCES; RETIREMENT AND BENEFITS 481

(12-31)
Rev. Edwin T. Brown, Pearsall, Tex.

(12-32)
To Allow All Denominations and
Their Workers to Join Concordia
Retirement Plan

Wuereas, The Concordia Retirement Plan is designed
for workers of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod;
and

Wuereas, This excellent retirement plan is therefore
self-limiting; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board of Managers initiate plans
to permit any congregation and its workers to join the
Concordia Retirement Plan upon meeting the financial

requirements of the plan. Rev. Joun Ka.zio

Rev. Paut BITTNER
Virginia, Minn.

(12-33)

To Allow for Complete Portability
Under Concordia Retirement Plan
Wuereas, The congregation that remits to the Con-
cordia Retirement Plan does so for the workers in their
service and not the workers of the Synod in general;
therefore be it
Resolved, That we instruct the Board of Managers
to initiate plans for complete portability to insure the
individual workers the protection intended by their

congregations. Rev. W. FRANZMEIER

Hibbing, Minn.
Rev. THEODORE SCHROEDER
Marble, Minn.

(12-34)

To Develop Materials on Stewardship
of Natural and Human Resources

Wuereas, The stewardship of the whole world has
been given into human hands by our heavenly Father
(Gen. 1: 28-31) ; and

Wuereas, By this commission we are to understand

not only the natural resources of the world but also
the products of human industry to be in our care, and
Wuereas, The air, water, minerals, plant and animal
life of this planet are being polluted daily, poisoned,
exploited selfishly, and laid waste: and
Wuereas, The produce and wealth of our United
States are being grievously misappropriated so that the
selfish needs of the already well-to-do rather than the
necessary needs of the poor and the oppressed here and
abroad are being met; and
Wuereas, The wrath of God in the form of mass
starvation, rebellion, war, and pestilence will surely
come upon us in the near future unless we repent now
of these sinful injustices and abuses; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Stewardship Department of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod be empowered and
instructed by this convention to prepare educational
materials for use at the congregational level to equip
Christians for responsible stewardship in these areas of
human responsibility; and be it further
Resolved, That these materials provide not only a
proper theological perspective about and a general
knowledge of the facts involved in these matters but
that they deal concretely also with particular examples
of the problems which confront us, viz.: What is hap-
pening and why to the air and water supplies of our
major urban areas; why and how the mineral resources,
such as oil. are being depleted and for whose benefit:
by whose decisions and to what ends so much of our
national public budget (what percentage) is being spent
in the production and maintenance of military hardware,
such as the proposed antiballistic missile system; and
be it finally
Resolved, That the Stewardship Department acquaint
our congregations with those organizations and agen-
cies, public and private, that are struggling effectively
with these problems, to the end that we as men and
women responsible to the Creator for the care of His
creation may join and assist responsible conservation
forces in their endeavors of good stewardship of the
earth as true “conservatives.”
St. Grecory oF Nyssa LUTHERAN CHURCH
Chicago, IIl.
WAYNE SAFFEN, Pastor