# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S 18
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",..Resolved that the Division of Communication be
instructed to present specific plans and projects
with appropriate budgetary requests for the 1973
New Orleans Convention of the Synod for action."
(Milwaukee 10-11)

Our overture is in direct response to Milwaukee resolution 10-11, and
is submitted in consultation and in cooperation with the members of the
Division of Communication.

Most encouraging in the resolutions above is the mandate for an
expanded use of the media with specific plans and projects together with
appropriate budget requests. The resolutions state that the Synod, recog-
nizing the enormous continuing and future potential of television as a
most significant means of spreading the Gospel in a contemporary way,
desires to increase its corporate support for projects in this mission area.
This is welcome news in the light of decreasing Synodical financial support
over the past five years (as is detailed in our plenary report). Synod's
co-sponsor, the Lutheran Laymen's League, also welcomed these resolutions,
having joined the Synod's television ministry in 1967 in order to reinforce

the effectiveness and forward thrust of this mission effort. The League

has increased its support each year.

A NEW PLAN

The Television Board thus is responding to direction from the Synod and
is offering for Synod's consideration a reasoned and carefully prepared
plan for advancing and supplementing her television ministrry to achieve
a more effective mission outreach.

The Board does not propose its plan lightly; it has been refined from
careful and prolonged research, study, and counsel. [In order to achieve
an objective assessment of the past coupled to a projection of potential

for the future and to do its planning in a thoroughly professional manner,