# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S399
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SOCIAL MINISTRY 399

Resolved. That the Synod continue its World Hunger Appeal
through the next biennium: and be it further

Resolved. That the exact goal be established by the Board
of Social Ministry and World Relief: and be it finally

Resolved. That the goal for the next biennium be not less
than $1 million.
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Herington, Kans.
Walter A. Muehlenburg, Chairman
Harlan Schlesener. Secretary
William G. Moorhead, Pastor

8-06A

To Deal with Hunger

WHEREAS, Drought and continued crop failure in various
parts of the world have contributed to food shortages: and

WHEREAS. Poverty and hunger and its components. disease
and death, have increased as a result: and

WHEREAS. In 1974 this escalation resulted in an estimated
10 million deaths by starvation, and most of them were children:
and

WHEREAS, The Lord's implied imperative in His word: "I was
hungry. and you fed Me,” is followed by His commendation:
Whenever you did this for one of the least important of these
brothers of Mine, you did it for Me”: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod through its President and through
its membership express to our government its concern about the
factors that bring about starvation and death: and be it further

Resolved. That the membership of the Synod through per-
sonal correspondence addressed to their legislators encourage
legislation designed to eliminate hunger and its tragic con-
sequences; and be it further

Resolved. That the Synod continue its hunger efforts by em-
powering the Board of Social Ministry and World Relief to raise
an additional $500,000 each year over and above the funds
needed to carry on the regular world relief program: and be it
finally

Resolved. That the Board of Social Ministry and World Relief
make available informational material designed to bring healing
for the problems of poverty and hunger.

Board of Social Ministry and World Relief
Leslie F. Weber, Executive Secretary

Identical or similar:

8-06B

Cross, Milwaukee, Wis. Joseph Ellwanger

8-07

To Raise Additional $2 Million
for World Hunger

WHEREAS, The many and varied initiatives undertaken by
the church and the world community to alleviate the poverty
and hunger throughout the world have been effective in many
ways but have proven inadequate to the total needs of the
world’s 500 to 800 million hungry and poverty-stricken people:
and

WHEREAS, The world energy crisis, economic inflation,
population increases, and adverse climatic conditions have
combined to create even greater deprivation in many areas of
the world and have brought world food reserves to a 30-year
low: and

WHEREAS. It is presently still more imperative to develop
and carry out an effective program of Christ-centered aid to
assist in alleviating world hunger and its causes; therefore be it

Resolved. That all members of the Synod be encouraged
through the Board of Social Ministry and World Relief to double
their efforts to bring assistance to the hungry of the world and
to that end the Board of Social Ministry and World Relief be
hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to solicit in the

next biennium from members of the Synod an additional amount
of $2.000.000 toward its present World Hunger Appeal Fund.

Commission on World Hunger
Dr. Martin C. Poch. Chairman

8-08

To Support Capital Punishment

WHEREAS. Both the Holy Scriptures and the Lutheran Con-
fessions approve capital punishment by the government for just
cause (Gen. 9:6: Ex. 21:12: Lev. 24:17; Num. 35:21: Deut. 19:11-12:
Acts 25:11: Rom. 13:4: Large Catechism I, 180—81. Tappert.
p. 389): and

WHEREAS. Various liberal church bodies continue to con-
demn capital punishment: and

WHEREAS. The 1967 convention of the LCMS declared “that
capital punishment is in accord with the Holy Scriptures and
the Lutheran Confessions"; therefore be it

Resolved. That the 1975 convention of the LCMS declare that
capital punishment is in accord with the Holy Scriptures and the
Lutheran Confessions.

Trinity Lutheran Church
New Haven. Mo.
Orville Meyer. Secretary

8-09A

To Oppose Ruling on Abortion

WHEREAS. Man was given dominion over all the earth: and

WHEREAS. A nation’s natural resources are therefore in-
cluded: and

WHEREAS. A nation’s natural resources include the resource
of its people: and

WHEREAS. We account conception as the beginning of a
person, body and soul: and

WHEREAS. Our nation has recently embarked on a policy of
authorizing the legal termination of the life of the fetus: and

WHEREAS. We petition the Lord to forgive us in our acts of
any previous silence: therefore be it

Resolved. That we as a Synod state. before all. our opposition
to the United States Supreme Court ruling that permits abortion
on demand: and be it further

Resolved. That we as a Synod petition the Lutheran Council
in the U. S. A. (LCUSA) to similarly protest the Supreme Court
ruling: and be it further

Resolved. That we communicate our action to every Christian
church body in our land: and be it finally

Resolved. That we communicate our action to every member
of the Congress of the United States, each member of the U.S.
Supreme Court, and every governor (50) of the United States.

Redeemer Ev. Lutheran Church
Lebanon, Conn.
Robert G. Small, Secretary

Identical or similar:

8-09B and 8-09C

St. James. University City, Mo.
Trinity, Warren, Ohio

Tom Baker
Charles Lentner

8-10
To Affirm Sanctity of Life

WHEREAS, The pagan world of antiquity valued. and dealt
with. human life only in terms of its economic usefulness—
disposing unwanted parents, relatives. and children at will and
with no thought for the sanctity of that life: and

WHEREAS. It took the mighty witness of God Himself through
the mouths of His people—yes and even their blood—to hu-
manize and Christianize this world and to teach it to recognize
the preciousness of each life: and