# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S354
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

354 HIGHER EDUCATION

taining faculty personnel whether for doctrinal or practical
reasons: and

WHEREAS. The laity are seeing an increasing contradiction
between the cry of the pulpit clergy for more “faith” on the part
of their listeners. laymen who most often have no absolute
tenure of joy or business security in their everyday lives where
they must “walk by faith” and not by tenure: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Anaheim convention committee on Higher
Education present a resolution to the delegates recommending
the end of all tenure or a greater limiting of tenure where
feasible: and be it finally

Resolved. That if the above is too gigantic a question to be
laid upon the Anaheim delegates hastily. this whole tenure
question be presented to the Anaheim convention assembled
with the recommendation that the synodical Board for Higher
Education immediately study and return with specific recom-
mendations for passage at the next synodical convention.

St. Thomas Lutheran Church
Rocky River, Ohio

Edgar H. Krause. President
James P. Walker, Secretary
Phillip B. Giessler. Pastor

Identical or similar:

6-122B

St. James. University City. Mo. Tom Baker

6-123

To Revise Bylaws on Modified
Service and Retirement

WHEREAS, The Federal Government recognizes 72 as the age
of retirement by eliminating restrictions on earnings: and

WHEREAS. The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod recog-
nizes 70 as the age of retirement by automatically initiating
payments at this age: and

WHEREAS, A faculty is knowledgeable relative to the needs
and service potentials of its members, whereby it can provide
invaluable insight: therefore be it

Resolved. That Section 6.82 of the synodical Handbook be
revised as follows:

e. Faculty members may be honorably retired or
transferred to modified service by action of the Board
of Control at the age of 65 or any year thereafter and
shall be retired at the age of 72. Judgments shall be
made after consultation with the individual involved
and an appropriate committee elected by the faculty.

f. Service loads and conditions of service after age
65 shall be modified according to individual capacity
and shall be determined by the Board of Control after
consultation with the individual involved and an
elected faculty committee.

Faculty

Concordia Teachers College
River Forest, Illinois

Merle L. Radke, Secretary

6-124

To Make Adjustments in Faculty
Housing

WHEREAS, Concordia Theological Seminary, to carry out its
work in preparing men for ministry in the Missouri Synod, re-
quires approximately 35 faculty members: and

WHEREAS, The Synod at the present time owns only six
houses in the city of Springfield which can be used for faculty
housing: and

WHEREAS, The maximum rental allowance given to pro-
fessors at our seminary is only $210.00 per month, not nearly

sufficient to enable a professor to rent an unfurnished home in
Springfield, or to purchase a home of his own: and

WHEREAS, Houses in the city of Springfield are far beyond
the price range that the average professor at Concordia Theo-
logical Seminary could afford: and

WHEREAS, Inflation is making it increasingly difficult for
men beginning their work at a seminary to purchase homes for
themselves and their families: and

WHEREAS. The seminary in Springfield has, during the past
20 years, increased the number of its faculty and continues to
increase the number of its faculty, thereby making it necessary
to either acquire housing for faculty or provide means for
faculty to secure their own homes through adequate housing
allowance, coupled with such financial assistance as may be
required for a down-payment on a house: and

WHEREAS, The church consistently, throughout its history,
has provided its professors with necessary housing as a part of
the contract of employment: therefore be it

Resolved. That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in
convention assembled direct the acquisition of a minimum of
five houses for faculty housing in the city of Springfield and
further authorize such financial assistance as may be necessary
from time to time to encourage professors to purchase their
own homes: and be it further

Resolved. That The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod in
convention assembled authorize the Board of Control of Con-
cordia Theological Seminary, in consultation with the Board for
Higher Education, to increase the housing allowance for theo-
logical professors from $210.00 per month to $350.00 per month,
and that the Board of Directors of Synod be authorized to imple-
ment this directive.

Board of Control

Concordia Theological Seminary
Springfield, Il.

Robert Preus, President

Harold Olsen, Chairman

6-125

To Include Directors of Christian
Education in Colloquy Procedure

WHEREAS. Directors of Christian education are not included
in the colloquy procedures of the synodical Handbook: therefore
be it

Resolved. That Section IV. Part F. of the Bylaws of the synod-
ical Handbook be revised as follows:

(Note the following changes throughout:
1. “ministry of education” for “teaching ministry”:

2. “baccalaureate degree qualifying the applicant for the
ministry of education” for “bachelor degree in education.”]

F. ADMISSION TO THE MINISTRY
OF EDUCATION BY COLLOQUY

4.75 Colloquy Board for the Ministry of Education

a. Definition. “The Ministry of Education” includes
the teaching ministry and the director of Christian
education ministry. [new paragraph}

b. Membership. The Colloquy Board for the Min-
istry of Education shall consist of a Vice-President of
the Synod and the presidents of the synodical colleges
offering a baccalaureate degree qualifying the appli-
cant for the ministry of education.

c. Functions. The Colloquy Board for the Ministry
of Education shall —

1. direct the synodical activity in matters of col-
loquies for the ministry of education according to regu-
lations adopted by the Synod:

2. establish academic and theological standards for
admission to the ministry of education by colloquy.
and in the establishment of these standards the board
shall consult the faculties of the synodical colleges