LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Page 330

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Paul C. Mueller *

1. My love for the Lord’s work and the variety
of experiences I have enjoyed in Iowa
District West and in the Minnesota District.

2. My greatest joy rests in our return to the
solid foundations of Scripture and the Con-
fessions and to the hermeneutical principal
that Scripture interprets Scripture. This
gives us the source for strength to move
forward in the name of our Lord on all
fronts.

3. Forward!" Both in internal strengthening
and outreach. We need to grow inwardly
because we cannot give away a faith we do
not possess. As that faith relationship with
our Lord grows, so will our restlessness to
reach our world with the good news of what
our God has done!

Wilbert J. Sohns

1. The privilege and opportunities that God
has given me to serve Him, such as parish
pastor, evangelist, International LLL
pastoral advisor. Synod’s Board for
Missions member for eight years and a
broad knowledge of the Synod, its nature
and function coupled with a fervent desire
for Synod’s ongoing faithfulness to Christ,
His Word, and the Sacraments.

2. By God’s miraculous grace Synod continues
to move, though slowly at times, to a
stronger confessional stance based on His
holy inerrant Word and is now beginning
again to have an aggressive mission thrust
in the world. Synod as a whole seems to
want to go forward in remembrance of the
Savior, His saving mercy and work, and
His Great Commission.

3. Under the blessings of Christ we need to
“run together” in faithful use of the means
of grace individually and collectively, in
confessional integrity, in responsible
church relationships, in a more effective
and efficient stewardship of all our
resources, and in mission outreach in word
and deed as a church empowered and
directed not by men, nor money, nor admin-
istrative structures, but only by the Word
“that at the name of Jesus everyone in
heaven and on earth and under the earth
should kneel and everyone should confess
‘Jesus Christ is Lord!’ and so glorify God
the Father.”

Walter D. Haas

1. My interest in missions is long standing,
having been nurtured from childhood. My
work in central-city ministries for nearly
two decades has been directed to bringing
the Gospel to the unchurched. My first term
on the Board for Missions has been a
broadening experience in providing new
insights into God’s gracious dealings with
us, His people.

2. The greatest joy is in seeing God providing
many opportunites for evangelism, both in
North America and abroad, and our
Synod’s accepting these challenges as
opportunities to be met responsibly while
remaining true to Scripture and the
confesssions.

3. (1) We must continue to emphasize the
means of grace and prayer. (2) We must
have aconcentrated recruitment effort. The
harvest is ripe, the laborers are few. (3) We
must emphasize stewardship—God is pro-
viding abundant resources to His people.
(4) We must work toward greater coordina-
tion of effort in ministry between various
synodical boards and between the District
and synodical mission efforts. (5) We must
not only recognize the priesthood of all
believers but also equip them to be His
witnesses or countless opportunities for
mission work will be lost.

Wilbert H. Rusch Sr.
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2. —
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NOMINATIONS

Richard W. Henningfield

1. My vocation is administration. I like work-
ing with people. Have served eight years as
a lay missionary in Taiwan and business
manager/treasurer. Have understanding
of missionary, his problems and concerns,
needs of the national church. Firmly believe
we should be moving ahead in getting the
good news of the Gospel to the lost of the
world.

2. Greatest joy is the positive steps we are
taking to get reinvolved in missions on a
worldwide basis. God is giving us many
challenges and opportunities to do as He
commanded in Matt. 28:19.

3. We must move with the strength and con-
fidence of Phil. 4:13: “I can do all things in
Him who strengthens me.” Phl. 2:4: “Let
each of you look not only to his own
interests, but also to the interests of others.”
2 Cor. 9:8: “And God is able to provide you
with every blessing in abundance, so that
you may always have enough of everything
and may provide in abundance for every
good work.” Take God at His word and
move forward.

William J. Jorns

1. For four years I was an agricultural
missionary with the LCMS in Guatemala,
C.A. and have maintained close contact
with both national pastors and mission-
aries in C.A. That experience supported
now with a doctorate in adult education,
professional experience in staff develop-
ment, and my current administrative posi-
tion as assistant director of international
agricultural programs at Kansas State
University provides me with an under-
standing of the complexities of developing
and sustaining international programs.

2. The reduction in mission programs, caused
in part by financial problems, is limiting
the potential impact which the LCMS could
exert in this troubled world through pro-
claiming the Good News of salvation.

3. As achurch we dare not ignore the Lord’s
command to go into all the world. However,
emerging nationalism in many countries
makes North American missionary
domination of programs a very sensitive
issue. This plus the tremendous cost of
maintaining missionaries and mission
programs overseas makes it critical that
the resources of the LCMS be used to
prepare and send missionaries who can
train and support national pastors and
laymen to preach God’s Word.

Dorothy Rosin

1. Having served on the Board for Missions
since 1973, I have experience and back-
ground which is both essential and helpful
in making future decisions for the mission
program of the church. I have been privi-
leged to visit foreign mission fields through-
out the world. Having been active on the
international level of LWML since 1961,
this additional experience is helpful in
making important decisions.

2. Iam happy with the direction in which the
Synod is moving. In addition to the present
theological stance, Dr. Hyatt’s report at the
recent Board for Missions meeting in which
he indicated that the Forward in
Remembrance effort is emphasizing world
missions, North American missions and
ministries, and the training of professional
church workers seems to be an encouraging
step forward.

3. In view of the fact that three out of four
billion people in the world have not heard
the message of salvation through Christ, I
feel that the Synod should have as its first
concern the opening of new mission fields,
the recruitment of more professional church
workers, and an intensified effort to bring
Christ to the unreached people of the world.

The members of the Synod must be serious
about the Challenges for the ’80s, which
were adopted at the 1979 convention of the
Synod.

H. David Thurston

1. After 12 years as professor of international
agriculture at Cornell University and 11
years working in South America, with
frequent travel to Asia and Africa, I believe
I know well the problems, hopes, and
aspirations of the multitudes overseas and
the challenging mission opportunities as
given in Matt. 28:19-20.

2. The 1979 statistics show that the decline in
membership of Synod may have reversed,
plus increases in Sunday school enrollment
and infant Baptism. This strengthening of
Synod is cause for joy. That support for
overseas missions at this time of great
opportunity is not increasing dramatically
is cause for disappointment.

3. In keeping with Matt. 28:19-20, more educa-
tion through the work of our membership
on the challenge of effectively spreading
Christ’s Word is needed. Synod should
develop a coherent, unified policy on
missions. Strong efforts to send more
missionaries overseas are needed. Studies
of Christ-pleasing means to multiply efforts
to spread the Gospel must be found.
Evangelism is foremost, but through medi-
cine, agriculture, and teaching, genuine
concern for not only spiritual but physical
need should be shown.

BOARD OF
PARISH EDUCATION

2 pastors, 1 teacher, 2 laypersons to
be elected.

PASTORS

Maynard H. Brandt, 52, Emma, MO:
Holy Cross (MO); parish pastor. S. BPE 8; Cir.
Cslr. 4; D. Chm. Educ. Com. 7. C. Pastor 26. O.
Zone Yth. Adv. 2; Zone LLL Adv. 2; Zone SS
Teachers Adv. 4.

David V. Dissen, 47, Clearwater, FL:
First (FG); parish pastor. D. Bd. Social Minis-
try. C. Pastor 22.

Raymond A. Mueller, 51, St. Louis, MO:
Holy Cross (MO); pastor. S. BPE 4; Cir. Cslr.5.
D. Bd. Stewp. 2. C. Pastor 26. O. Area Chm.
Evang. Efforts 6.

Allen W. Schade, 32, Mississauga, ON,
Canada: Christ Our King (ON); pastor. S.
Com. of Fellowship ELCC 2. D. BPE & Yth. 5:
Com. of Adj.5. C. Pastor 7. O. Div. of Theology
Luth. Council in Canada 4.

TEACHERS

H. Allen Herbst, 42, Springfield, IL:
Trinity (CI); principal. 8. CPH Music Editorial
Com. 5; Fort Wayne Bd. of Control 1; Nom.
Com. 2; Synod Conv. Dele. 1. D. Fdr. & Dir.
CID Music Camp 5; Pres. CID Camp Bad. 3;
Worship Com. Chm. 9; Educ. Com. Chm. 4;
River Forest’s Pres. Council 4. C. Yth. Dir. 2;
Music Dir. 22; Teacher 15; Principal 4; Bd. of
Dir. 3.

Fay R. Richert, 48, New Haven, IN:
Martini (IN); teacher/ principal. S. Bd. Parish
Educ. 3. D. Miss. Bd. 6. C. Educ. Com. 6;
Evang. Com. 3; Teacher 28. O. IN Dis. Luth.
Teachers Sec. 4.

LAYPERSONS

Joe Frost, 47, Austin, TX: Redeemer (TX);
educator-professor. D. Bd. of Dir. 2. C. Bd. of
Educ. 6; Bd. of Elders 2.

Roy H. Guess, 61, Casper, WY: Mount
Hope (WY); geologist & rancher. 8S. BPE 4;
Conv. Dele. 2; Convoc. Dele. 1. D. Bd. of Dir. 4;
Bd. of Adj. 1, Conv. Dele. 2; LLL Pres. 1. C.
Pres. 2; Bd. of Elders 4; Bd. Evang. 9; Chm.
Council 1. O. City Councilman & Mayor pro-