# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S27
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MISSIONS 27

It should provide preservice and in-service training to the re-
cruits. It should relate to other church, nongovernmental,
and governmental programs interested and active in health
work. Finally it should communicate the healing program to the
constituency of the Synod and produce publications as a part of
this effort.

Given the Coonoor understanding of health and healing, this
calls upon the council to relate to every board and commission
of the Synod, not casually but intensively. It requires the council
to pay attention to ethical problems (abortion, birth control,

euthanasia, genetic manipulation), social issues (liberation,
human rights, social and economic justice), world agendas (food,
population, peace, ecology), as well as all fields of medicine from
psychiatry to proctology.

The Handbook of the Synod provides for one professional
staff person to carry out this assignment.

After careful review of the council’s own history in the light
of the present opportunity, we have discovered basic weak-
nesses in our past and are recommending Handbook changes to
strengthen the form and structure of our operation as follows:

RECOMMENDED HANDBOOK CHANGES

PRESENT WORDING

2.83 Duties with Respect to Synodical Personnel

a. The Board of Directors shall appoint, subject
to the approval of the President of the Synod:

An Administrative Officer of the Board of Di-
rectors

A Controller

Assistant Treasurer (s)

An Executive Secretary for Medical Missions
an

D. MEDICAL MISSIONS

8.71 Council for Christian Medical Work

a. The Board of Directors upon recommendation
of the President of the Synod shall appoint a Coun-
cil for Christian Medical Work composed of the
president of the Lutheran Medical Mission Associa-
tion or_ his representative, the president of the
Wheat Ridge Foundation or his representative, and
five other persons wi professional competence to
give leadership and counsel in the area of healing.

b. The council shall serve as adviser and con-
sultant to all the boards and commissions © the
Synod which have a relationship to the healing
mission of the church.

c. The council shall meet regularly to consult
with and advise the Secretary for Medical Work of
the Board for Missions, who shall serve in a staff
relationship to the council.

d. The council shall be the Synod’s authorized
agent to relate to the Lutheran Medical Mission
Association, the Lutheran Hospital Association, and
such other groups as have the healing mission 0
the church as one of their objectives, and shall
maintain liaison with the Department of Medical
Services of the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A.

8.73 Objectives
The council shall strive to:

a. sensitize all boards and commissions of the
Synod and its Districts to the need for considering
healing a basic expression of ministry and to the

PROPOSED WORDING

2.83 Duties with Respect to Synodical Personnel

a. The Board of Directors shall appoint subject
to the approval of the President of the Synod:

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D. MEDICAL MISSIONS

8.71 Council for Christian Medical Work

a. The Board of Directors upon recommendation
of the President of the Synod shall appoint a Coun~
cil for Christian Medical Work composed of the
president of the Lutheran Medical Mission Associa-
tion or his elected representative, the president of
the Wheat Ridge Foundation or_his elected repre-
sentative, the president of the Lutheran Women’s
Missionary League or her elected representative,
a member of the Board of Directors, and five other
persons with professional competence to give lead-
ership and counsel in the area of healing.

b. No change.

Delete.

ce. The council shall be the Synod’s authorized
agent to relate to such groups as have the healing
mission of the church as one of their objectives.

d. The council shall meet in regular session at
least three times per year. Its reporting relation-
ship will be to the Board of Directors. It is under-
stood that the council will mantain especially close
liaison with the Board for Missions and the Board
of Social Ministry and World Relief and will share
agenda material and minutes with whatever boards,
commissions, and agencies might be considered ap-
propriate.

8.73 Objectives

The objective of the council is its church body,
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, committed
to and working from a self-understanding that it
is called to be a healing community, acting out 0
Christian faith, justice, and mercy to fulfill God’s
purposes among all people but especially the dis-
advantaged, sick, and suffering members of the hu-
man family in His world.

To this end the council shall strive to —

a. No change.