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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Sheet 363

Scan: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

304 PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

CHART 2 Note: In the last 15 years pledges from Districts have increased
Per-Communicant Giving for All Purposes only 5 years—and 4 of those are the last 4 years.
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CHART 4
Percentage of District Pledges
Actually Remitted to the Synod
210
103%
190 102
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Note: In the last 15 years (actually the last 30 years) Districts
have remitted 100% or more of their pledges to the Synod in
50 only 4 years and 3 of these are the last 3 years.
1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 Where Do We Want to Go? We, together as the Synod, have
; _. ; spelled out the goals in the “Challenges for the 80s.” These
Points to note: Average giving (per communicant) has risen include:

steadily—with larger increases coinciding with special
Synodwide offerings in 1952 and 1967. The 1970s have seen
an acceleration in the increase in giving.

. 1,800 new churches
20 new campus ministries
. 20 new Deaf ministries
10 new overseas mission fields
To begin literacy/Bible translation in 10 languages
. 600 new missionaries from LCMS serving partner
churches/ mission fields and new outreach areas
. recruit 100 Hispanics, 150 Blacks, 50 native Americans,
20 Asian Americans, 50 workers for Deaf ministries, and
1.6 sufficient campus pastors
8. a 50% increase in membership

CHART 3

District Pledges to the Synod
Compared with Previous Year

N go pwene

Let’s put in dollars and cents the budget increase goal for
1.2 which we shoot. The goal is a 100% increase plus inflation by
the end of the decade. This would mean that instead ofa budget
of $30,750,000 as in 1980, in 1990 the budget would be
$106,887,774. (This is based on a 7.18% increase each year

° 08 which, when compounded, equals a 100% increase by the end of
z 06 the 10th year. This is based on a 10% annual inflation rate in
S 94 1980, applied to the following year’s budget, with succeeding
6 inflation rates: 1981-8%; 1982-7%; 1983-6%; and 1984 and there-
5 02 after—5%. No, these inflation rates are examples, not
= 3 predictions.)
But There’s More. To fund the mission challenges; to raise
02 sufficient funds on the level of congregations, District/ Synod;
“o4 to carry out the challenges of—

a) 1,800 new missions,
“0.6 b) 600 new missionaries,

08 c) hundreds of minority church workers, etc.,

will cost, conservatively, $1'4 billion in new money during the
1980s. Needless to say, all of this together calls for bold
“1.2 thinking, bold planning, bold mission, and bold giving. This
calls for our members who have gone Forward in Remembrance

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1967
68
69

1970
71
72
73
74

1975
76
77
78
79

1980
81