# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S147
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RESOLUTIONS

missionaries (pastors and teachers) and other
workers for the ministries and areas within its direct
responsibility, always safeguarding the rights of the
partner churches and workers involved;

c. maintain a concern for the specific training of
missionaries and other workers related to the mission
endeavors of the Synod and establish a continuing
liaison with the terminal schools of the Synod;

d. counsel with the mission boards of the Districts
and partner churches with reference to their total
mission program and supervise the planning and
implementation of programs which will best utilize
the Synod’s resources of people and possessions;

e. have a special concern for the mission and
ministry among minorities, among sensory impaired,
and on campuses;

f. give assistance upon recommendation of the
Board for Social Ministry Services to congregations
or through them to their members or others in dire
emergencies or disaster situations;

g. (See 2-18B)

h. provide a ministry for all the Synod’s military
personnel, dependents of military personnel overseas,
civilians and their dependents overseas, and patients
in veterans hospitals;

i. function as a recruitment, liaison, and endorse-
ment agency with the various governmental units
involved in the Armed Forces and Veterans Admin-
istration and between these units and the Synod’s
chaplains and directors of religious education;

j. maintain liaison and cooperation with the
appropriate units of the Lutheran Council in the
U.S.A. and with assigned auxiliary and listed service
organizations.

2.239 Standing Committees

The board shall be assisted by standing commit-
tees dealing with the following areas:

Black Ministry (Commission on Black Ministry)

Campus Ministry

Ministry among American Indians (a majority of
whom shall be American Indians)

Ministry among Hispanics (a majority of whom
shall be Hispanics)

Ministry to the Armed Forces

Ministry to the Blind

Ministry to the Deaf

World Relief

2.241 Commission on Black Ministry

(Effective until the 1986 convention)

a. Membership. Membership of the Commission
on Black Ministry shall consist of nine members,
with an equal distribution of clergy and laity, plus
one teacher. Candidates may be proposed by any
member of the Synod (congregation, pastor, teacher).
The members of the commission shall be appointed
by the President of the Synod, in consultation with
the Executive Secretary of the Board for Missions,
from alist of at least three candidates for each vacant
seat on the commission which the representatives of
the Black congregations meeting in convocation will
have reviewed, evaluated, and approved. After the
initial appointments, the term of office shall be for 3
years. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled by
appointment by the synodical President from remain-
ing nominees on the same slate of candidates.

b. Function. The commission shall do the
following:

1. Plan, coordinate, and expand Black ministry in
the Synod in cooperation with the convocation of
Black Lutheran congregations, the appropriate
board chairman, and the President of the Synod.

2. Represent the concerns of Black ministry before

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the boards, commissions, committees, and judicator-
ies of the Synod.

5. Board for Professional Education Services
2.261 Membership

The Board for Professional Education Services
shall consist of nine members who shall be elected by
the general convention of the Synod: three clergymen,
three teachers, three laypersons.

2.265 Functions

The board shall have the overall responsibility to
provide for the education of pastors, teachers, and
other professional church workers for the Synod by
supervising and coordinating the activities of the
Synod’s colleges and seminaries as a unified synod-
ical system through their respective Boards of
Regents. To that end and in keeping with the objec-
tives and the Constitution, Bylaws, and resolutions
of the Synod, the board shall—

a. supervise the execution of all decisions of the
Synod relating to its educational system or its
institutions;

b. establish educational and administrative
standards, policies, and procedures for the coordina-
tion of the Synod’s colleges and seminaries;

c. evaluate the curriculum of each educational
institution and prescribe appropriate measures;

d. survey current trends in education, including
government programs and regulations, and deter-
mine their implications for the Synod;

e. provide for visits to the institutions;

f. require reports from Boards of Regents and
presidents;

g. gather information regarding scholastic attain-
ments and other relevant data concerning individuals
and make such data available to Boards of Regents
and persons authorized to participate in engaging
teaching personnel;

h. acquire, maintain, and sell property under
policies established by the Board of Directors and in
consultation with the respective Board of Regents;

i. determine the order in which specific education
projects for which the Synod has made appropria-
tions shall be carried out;

j. assist congregations and Districts in student
recruitment and student aid programs;

k. consolidate or close colleges in accordance with
the church’s needs and its financial condition after
consultation with the Board of Regents involved and
after receiving the consent of the synodical Board of
Directors and the Council of Presidents;

l. give prior approval to appropriate schools for
specialized and graduate programs to avoid unneces-
sary duplication;

m. authorize the development of four-year pro-
grams only with the prior approval of the Board of
Directors, the Council of Presidents, and the local
Board of Regents;

n. encourage the congregations of the Synod and
their.memberships to take the fullest advantage of
the opportunities for Lutheran lay higher education
available at the colleges and seminaries of the Synod.

2.269 Standing Committees

The board shall be assisted by standing commit-
tees dealing with the following areas:

Colloquy for the Pastoral Ministry (Bylaws 5.71 to
5.91).

Colloquy for the Teaching Ministry (Bylaws 5.101
to 5.117).