# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S54 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ) i | i / 4 j 54 MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION Board for Missions, and appropriate synodical institu- tions to assume responsibility for the development, implementation, and administration of all theology programs for the preparation of workers for the His- panic Ministries. It was also directed to review imme- diately the present theological education programs for Hispanics, to implement the directive of the Anaheim and Dallas conventions for the establishment of a Hispanic seminary extension as an avenue for the preparation and training of workers for Hispanic pastor- al ministries, to give a report in July of 1982 to the Florida-Georgia and Texas Districts on this matter, and to seek resources for funding and implementing the theological programs for Hispanic Ministries. Colleges and seminaries were encouraged to continue consider- ing employment of at least one Black faculty or pro- fessional staff member and were instructed to cooperate with the work of the Commission on Black Ministry for this purpose as a result of the adoption of Res. 6-20A (TB 243). The convention reaffirmed the need to devise and enrich the program for the training of pastors and teachers for ministry to Blacks and ethnic minorities and asked that additional forms of training for church vocation workers be developed. This was done by adoption of Res. 6-21 (TB 132) and Res. 6-22 (TB 132). Discussion was begun on Res. 6-23 which would require that Boards of Control ordinarily not call a pastor to teach in a seminary until that pastor has completed some years of service as a parish pastor. During the discussion an amendment to delete the word “ordinarily” from line 16 and to substitute the words “at least three” for the word “some” in line 17 (TB 133) was declined. The resolution then was adopted as presented by the floor committee. By the adoption of Res. 6-31 (TB 348) the relationship of Concordia College, Edmonton, to the Synod was clarified. By adopting Res. 6-09 (TB 116) the convention agreed that courses leading to a minimum proficiency in the English language fields, especially oral communication, should be included in all church work preparation programs leading to ministry to Hispanics. It also agreed that professional workers should be encouraged to take advantage of existing programs for continuing education, that congregations be urged to make time available to their professional workers for such education and provide necessary funding for it, that the Board for Higher Education convene a committee to study and draw up a plan for continuing education workshops and seminars, that the President of the Synod expand the present Continuing Education Committee and that a report of this com- mittee be made to the next convention through the President of the Synod, by the adoption of Res. 6-25A (TB 2438). After declining to strike the word “male” from the title and agreeing to add a final resolved stating, “Resolved, That these materials be multicultural in nature” as well as adding the words “and other agencies within the Synod” and after the word “BHE” in line 53 (TB 133), the delegates adopted Res. 6-24 (TB 133) as amended. The centennial anniversaries of Concordia College, Bronxville; Concordia College, Milwaukee; and St. Paul’s College, Concordia, Mo., as well as the 75th anniversary of Concordia College, Portland, and the 60th anniversary of Concordia College, Edmonton, were recognized and the Secretary of the Synod was instructed to write letters of congratulations to each of these schools by the adoption of Res. 6-28 (TB 135). By. . adopting Res. 6-29 (TB 135) the Synod expressed its thanks to God and to those who had donated gifts and endowments to special building projects on the cam- puses of its colleges and seminaries. Statement Dr. Mugge, chairman of the Board of Social Ministry, ; was given the privilege of presenting a statement to the convention regarding the activities of the board in relation to its association with NILB. It was felt that the statement was necessary in view of the fact that the stewardship of the board seemed to have been impugned. at a previous session. Parish Services The final series of resolutions from the Floor Com- mittee on Parish Services was next considered by the delegates. After they had adopted Res. 7-02 (TB 137), directing the Board of Parish Education to update the 1943 translation of Luther’s Small Catechism and its exposition, one of the delegates expressed his concern, that since the Catechism was to appear in Lutheran Worship, the result would be two catechisms in circula- tion and use by the Synod. The delegate was encouraged: & to express his concern about this matter in a letter to th Board of Parish Education. By adopting Res. 7-13 (TB: 142) the convention asked congregations, associations and Lutheran high school boards of control to evaluate: the salaries of their teachers and encouraged them to; establish salary scales equal to those paid in their local: public school districts. Because it was impractical, and: because some Christain textbooks produced by th Board of Parish Education are available, the convention; agreed to decline consideration of Overture 7-15 (C 296) by adopting Res. 7-14 (TB 142). After declining t consider a substitute motion which called for the con sideration of Overture 7-11A (CW 295), the delegate adopted Res. 7-15 (7B 143), reaffirming the commitme! of the Synod to the important religious role played by parochial schools in the lives of its youth, its homes, a its churches, and urged that public witness be given the goals, values, and nature of these schools. Th resolution also requested the Board of Parish Educatio to provide current information immediately and i summary reports at the next convention on progres made to sustain and protect our parochial schools fro encroachment by the enactment of puble policies. Asi final resolution Floor Committee 7 presented Res. 7-1 (TB 144). The resolution resolved that each congregatio of the Synod study the 1979 convention resolution regarding the teaching of creation and that the Biblica doctrine of creation be emphasized at all levels of parisbg education.