# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S5
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Officers of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

President Fourth Vice-President

Rev. Ralph Bohlmann, Ph.D., St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Gerhardt W: Hyatt, D.D., St. Paul, Minn.
First Vice-President Fifth Vice-President

Rev. Robert Sauer, D.D., St. Charles, Mo. Rev. Walter A. Maier, Jr., Th.D., Fort Wayne, Ind.
Second Vice-President ; Secretary

Rev. Joseph Lavalais, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. Herbert Mueller, D.D., LL.D., St. Louis, Mo.
Third Vice-President Treasurer

Rev. Guido Merkens, D.D., San Antonio, Tex. Mr. Norman Sell, LL.D., St. Louis, Mo.

The Convention Logo

Although God has called us to many kinds of stewardship, including the stewardship of sacred Truth, this
convention focused especially on the stewardship of Time, Talent, and Treasure—the three T’s which in the lower
case take the form of crosses. This is appropriate, for these gifts of God are indeed inseparably connected to a cross.
Since we are called to be faithful stewards of these gifts, the three letters themselves are in red, the color of devotion
(e.g., the red rose; the blood of martyrs). The diagonal lines and the italicized letters suggest determined action and
motion. Dominating the logo is the holy cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, portrayed in pure white. It is His cross—and
the remembrance of it—that draws us, not only onward in His service, but also upward into His presence. The outline
of His cross is deliberately left open in the upper corner, for His cross draws us finally into the boundless life of the
world to come. |

—H.M.