# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S344
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

344 HIGHER EDUCATION

6-89

To Terminate Cooperative Seminary
Training Arrangement with Saskatoon
and to Establish New Program

WHEREAS, The Milwaukee convention of the LCMS (Res.
6-20, Proceedings. p. 176) authorized establishment of an LCMS
theological chair on the faculty of Lutheran Theological Semi-
nary, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada: and

WHEREAS. The aforementioned resolution failed to give
specific approval to the program of ministerial training that
had been proposed, thus taking incomplete action (cf. Workbook.
1971, p. 285); and

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Seminary at Saskatoon is jointly
owned and operated by the Lutheran Church in America—
Canada Section and by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Canada: and

WHEREAS, The LCMS is not in fellowship with the LCA—
Canada Section; and

WHEREAS, The mere establishment of a theological chair
(one man on a theological faculty to teach homiletics and mar-
riage counselling) gives the LCMS no control over the doctrine
taught at the aforementioned seminary; and

WHEREAS. Many of the Canadian brethren in the LCMS
have expressed grave concern over this arrangement; and

WHEREAS, This arrangement constitutes a dangerous prece-
dent for the LCMS in terms of delegating away the theological
training of its future ministers to others and thereby surrender-
ing effective control: therefore be it

Resolved. That the LCMS terminate this arrangement with
the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon; and be it further

Resolved. That the Synod direct the BHE to establish and
to maintain a program of seminary training for LCMS students,
under the control and administration of one of our existing
synodical seminaries, at the location of Lutheran Theological
Seminary, Saskatoon, or at some other location in western
Canada deemed best by the BHE in consultation with the
A.-B. C. and Man.-Sask. Districts.

Board of Directors

Ontario District

Harold R. Patzer, Secretary
Albin J. Stanfel, President

6-90

To Establish Seminary Training
in Ontario

WHEREAS. It is becoming more difficult for Canadian stu-
dents to receive their seminary training at either of our two
seminaries in the U.S. because of restrictions imposed on
foreign students by the U.S. government: and

WHEREAS, It is becoming more difficult for U.S. pastors and
candidates to enter Canada because of restrictions imposed by
the Canadian immigration laws: and

WHEREAS, There is a definite advantage in training Canadian
pastors in Canada for service in Canada in a solid Lutheran
theology: and

WHEREAS. Because of the geography of Canada, there is no
one single center that can serve all Canadian students: and

WHEREAS. Ontario and eastern Canada have approximately
73% of the entire population of the country; and

WHEREAS. The proposal submitted by the Board of Directors
of the Ontario District to the synodical Task Force on Higher
Education and to the BHE is not for a full-fledged seminary
with its own campus and its own administration, but an ex-
tension center of Concordia Seminary, Springfield; and

WHEREAS, The Board of Directors of the Ontario District is
hopeful that the necessary funding for the facilities can be
raised within the District without adversely affecting the support
for the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod authorize the Board for Higher
Education to proceed with the implementation of a seminary
extension center of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, in Ontario.

Board of Directors

Ontario District

Harold R. Patzer, Secretary
Albin J. Stanfel, President

6-91

To Reevaluate Ontario Seminary
Site Recommendation

Resolved, That St.Luke Lutheran Church, Ottawa, Ont.,
express its agreement with the Ontario District Seminary
Task Force proposal which finds a branch or extension seminary
in eastern Canada eminently practical, academically acceptable,
ecclesiastically responsible, and financially possible as a way
to train pastors for our church in eastern Canada.

WHEREAS, The Ontario District Seminary Task Force was
unaware of the possible availability of St. Luke Lutheran School
as a seminary facility and through this lack of information failed
to investigate thoroughly the possibilities of the Ottawa area for
such a branch seminary: therefore be it

Resolved, That St.Luke Lutheran Church, Ottawa, Ont.,
request the reevaluation of the Ontario District Seminary
Task Force site recommendation; and be it further

Resolved, That St.Luke Lutheran Church, Ottawa, Ont.,
offer to the Synod St. Luke School, 100 Dufferin Road, Ottawa,
and the adjacent residence at 98 Dufferin Road, Ottawa, Ont.,
as a branch or extension seminary site under agreement mu-
tually acceptable to the Synod and the congregation.

St. Luke Lutheran Church
Ottawa, Ont.

Henry Thornton, Chairman
Arlene Brunke, Secretary

6-92A

To Make the Senior College
a 4-Year College

WHEREAS, The traditional preseminary program has served
the church well for many years and continues to offer the
thorough training in the skills and knowledge most valuable
for the seminary student and minister, as well as a means of
appropriate indoctrination and spiritual development; and

WHEREAS, The junior college—senior college—seminary
system of ministerial education is currently undergoing radical
change with the expansion of a number of junior colleges into
4-year colleges and with the expansion of teacher training and
general education programs which have diluted the traditional
preseminary education; and

WHEREAS, Concordia Senior College is the educational
institution in the Synod in which the primary focus on the tra-
ditional preseminary education survives most notably; and

WHEREAS, Nearly all the members of the Senior College
faculty are ministerially trained and all are wholeheartedly
committed to preseminary education as their primary task; and

WHEREAS, Concordia Senior College is equipped with unique
physical and administrative resources for the task of presemi-
nary education; and

WHEREAS, The educational, religious, and social service
institutions of the Fort Wayne community present a wide range
of opportunities for students to learn and to serve; therefore
be it

Resolved. That the Anaheim convention of the LCMS autho-
rize the Senior College to expand in 1976 to a 4-year college
which retains the traditional preseminary curriculum as its
basic program.

Christ Lutheran Church
Belmont, Mass.
Edward L. Kast, Pastor