# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1977_S115
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RESOLUTIONS

1. REGISTRATION AND CREDENTIALS

To Seat Delegates

RESOLUTION 1-01
Overture 1-01; 5-31A—5-33 (CW, pp. 1, 180—181)

WHEREAS, The registered delegates and represen-
tatives as listed in the Convention Workbook were, with
one exception, chosen according to _ prescribed
procedure (Bylaw 1.53); and

WHEREAS, The Registration and Credentials Com-
mittee has reviewed all challenges and, with one
exception, has found no cause for denying the seating
of the delegates in question; and

WHEREAS, The Committee on Constitutional
Matters (Floor Committee 5) has presented a resolution
to concur with the Commission on Constitutional
Matters’ “Opinion re Association of Evangelical
Lutheran Churches”; and

WHEREAS, The time for implementation of the CCM
opinion on AELC has been extended to provide
evangelical and pastoral care in dealing with those
associated with the AELC; therefore be it

Resolved, That the delegates, with the one excep-
tion, and representatives listed in the Convention
Workbook (pp. iv—xii) or registered with the
Secretary’s office since publication be seated according
to their designated assignments.

(The “exception” refers to the lay delegate from
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Charleston, Ill. [cf. 4-12,
CW, p. 148].)

Committee 5 concurs with this resolution.
Action: Adopted (1).

2. MISSIONS

To Authorize New Mission Work
in West Africa

RESOLUTION 2-01A
Report 2-01, App. A, Rec. 3 (CW, p. 10)

WHEREAS, Christ has commissioned and equipped
His people to proclaim the Gospel to all nations (Matt.
28:19 ff.; Luke 24:47; John 20:21) and sets before them
an open door (Rev. 3:8); and

WHEREAS, The Board for Missions reports promis-
ing opportunities for new work in West Africa among
the Mende people of Liberia and Sierra Leone and the
Bimoba people in Togo; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod authorize the Board for Missions to begin new
mission work among the Mende and other contiguous
unevangelized peoples in West Africa; and be it further

Chairman Lloyd Behnken and Secretary Ed Weise of Committee 2