# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S477
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
closure notices be made well in advance to all members of the
Synod.
Circuit 15
Southeastern District
Ov. 7-30

To Celebrate and Give Thanks to God
for the 125th Anniversary
of Concordia University, Nebraska
WHEREAS, Since its founding on November 18, 1894, the Lord
of the Church has blessed Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE)
by empowering it to serve The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
(LCMS) as an educational institution equipping students to learn,
serve and lead in the Church and in the world; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church led the founders of the
university to provide the funds and land to locate the institution in
Seward, Neb. so that the institution would be a blessing to the local
community, the Nebraska and surrounding districts and the entire
LCMS; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church has blessed CUNE to be the
leading preparer of full-time workers in the ministries of the LCMS,
as today it places more graduates into the commissioned teaching
and Director of Christian Education ministries of the Church than
any other institution of the Concordia University System; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church has blessed CUNE to equip
men for the pastoral ministry through its pre-seminary and other
academic programs so that, historically, each year between 40 and
50 are involved in academic and spiritual preparation to study at an
LCMS seminary with the result that seven percent of those serving
as pastors in the LCMS today are alumni of CUNE; and
WHEREAS, The God of all creation has blessed CUNE with
opportunities to equip students with a Lutheran Christian higher
education for vocations of service in business, laboratories,
hospitals, industry, courtrooms, government, the military, their
home, and the communities where they reside; and
WHEREAS, The God of all wisdom and knowledge has blessed
CUNE by enabling it to serve the Church and world through 110
undergraduate and graduate academic programs at its campuses in
Seward and Lincoln, through its high school partners and online;
and
WHEREAS, The God of service has blessed the Church and world
through the more than 23,000 alumni, sainted and living, of CUNE
who have walked by faith and not by sight and the hundreds of
gifted and faithful faculty and staff who served these men and
women during their educational studies; and
WHEREAS, The God of abundance has blessed CUNE through
the tens of thousands of donors who have faithfully supported the
university with their prayers, generous gifts, and referral of
students; and
WHEREAS, The God of grace and mercy continues to bless
CUNE with record numbers of undergraduate and graduate
students: 2,757 in 2016–17; therefore be it
The Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska District overtures contained
this additional resolving clause:
[Resolved, That the 2018 Convention of the … District of the
LCMS pause from its regular business to offer special thanksgiving
and praise to almighty God for His continued blessings on CUNE

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and to commend students, faculty, staff, and administration to His
continued providential care; and be it further]
Resolved, That the LCMS at its July 2019 convention declare
November 17, 2019 as a Synod-wide “Concordia University,
Nebraska Sunday,” encouraging and facilitating prayers,
thanksgiving, offerings, gifts, and student referrals to be given in
celebration of the Lord’s abundant blessings to the Church through
one of its treasured universities.
Kansas District; Missouri District; Nebraska District;
Rocky Mountain District; South Dakota District

2019 Convention Workbook