# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1979_S100
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

100 RESOLUTIONS

To Continue
Present Administration
of Blind and Deaf Ministries

RESOLUTION 1-34
Overtures 1-15, 1-16 (CW, p. 49)

WHEREAS, The Synod in convention established the
position of Secretary of Ministry to the Blind and Deaf;
and

WHEREAS, This position has been filled for only a
short time; and

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Friends of the Deaf have
provided funds for a chair for ministry to the deaf; and

WHEREAS, These funds plus the active interest being
shown by the Synod to recruit and train more pastors
for ministry to the deaf will make a more effective
outreach to the deaf possible; and

WHEREAS, The International Lutheran Deaf Associ-
ation through its regional advisers has sufficient input
for the needs and direction of deaf ministry; therefore
be it

Resolved, That the Synod in convention decline to
separate the administration of blind and deaf minis-
tries or to establish a separate Commission to the Deaf
at this time.

Action: Adopted (11).

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