# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1979_S175
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178 LATE REPORTS AND OVERTURES

Board of Directors of the Montana District; therefore
be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri

Synod in St. Louis, Mo., July 1979, receive Zion Evan-

gelical Lutheran Church, Whitehall, Mont., into mem-
bership.

Board of Directors

Montana District

David A. Boehnke, Secretary

L5-10

To Receive
Beautiful Savior Lutheran,
Lees Summit, Mo.

We request to be received into membership of The
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod at the 1979 conven-
tion.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church
Lees Summit, Mo.
Robert C. Terry, Chairman

(The Board of Directors of the English District has
approved this congregation’s constitution and recommends
acceptance into membership.)

L5-20

To Receive Nativity Ev. Lutheran,
Parshallville, Mich.

The voters of Nativity passed a resolution in assem-
bly on May 2, 1978, to join The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod.

Nativity Lutheran Church
Parshallville, Mich.
Rev. F. J. Pies Jr., Pastor

(The English District Board of Directors has approved the
congregation’s constitution.)

L6-67

To Intensify Training in Evangelism
at Seminaries

WHEREAS, Our seminaries, teacher-training colleges,
and terminal schools were established to meet the needs
of the church; and

WHEREAS, The church, and the church growth is
desperately in need of more and stronger leadership in
evangelism; and

WHEREAS, Congregations are pleading for men who
have this gift and have been adequately trained to use it
in equipping the saints; and

WHEREAS, The primary mission of the church is to
“go and make disciples” (Matt. 28:19); therefore be it

Resolved, That the previously named institutions be
required to adjust their curriculum to meet these needs
of the church; and be it further

Resolved, That they intensify their efforts to discover
and develop those students who have been given the
“gift of evangelist”; and be it finally

Resolved, That they move with haste to make these
gifts of God available to the church.

Peace Lutheran Church

Sandusky, Mich.

Arno Hasslu, President

J. Frederich Walton, Secretary

L6-19

Report of Seminario Concordia,
Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

The Board of Control of Seminario Concordia, Porto
Alegre, RS, Brasil, submits the following report, which
marks the seminary’s 75th year of service to the Lord.

Mission and Educational Philosophy

Seminario Concordia is dedicated to the purpose of
recruiting and preparing men for the holy ministry in
Brasil and other Portuguese-speaking countries. Suc-
cessful completion of the seminary curriculum with
conferral of the bachelor of divinity degree does not
guarantee eligibility for ordination nor placement into
the ministerium of the church. The graduates have to be
recommended by the faculty for the holy ministry,
which is done by a theological diploma.

The seminary also offers courses in continuing
education for pastors and is preparing for advanced-
degrees programs. In addition to the effort of continuing
the education of the clergy the seminary started in 1978
a program for intermediate education. Those students
coming from the Instituto Concordia, Sao Leopoldo,
which offers a fine education on the high school level,
enroll at the seminary in the “basic course,” a year of
college level education prior to the theological studies.
This “basic course” may later develop into a regular
college and may be located at some other place. The
proper theological education is given in four years, three
of which are dedicated to academic preparation and
one year to vicarage. For some years the vicarage was
reduced to a half-year at the end of the academic studies.
Since 1979 the seminary has returned to the one-year
vicarage.

Board of Control

Members of the Board of Control of Seminario
Concordia are Mr. Haroldo O. Schelp, chairman; Rev.
Harry Milton Kelm, secretary; Dr. Emilio O. Kaminski;
Mr. Antonio de Oliveira; Mr. Johannes Engel; Rev.
Ruben Eugen Becker; and Rev. Johannes Gedrat (ex
officio). The board met once a month, except during the
months of recess. They dedicated their efforts in helping
the administration to introduce improvements in the
area of the academic standards, the curriculum, the
faculty, and the property. They had to develop a new
system of meetings, since the whole issue of scholarship
grants was in 1977 transferred by the church from a
special committee to the Board of Control.

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