LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1983, Page 180

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180 ADMINISTRATION AND PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

including recommendations to increase seminary subsidies to

their needed operational level, and further recommendations

that could include the possibility of selling or closing some of

our synodical schools; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Directors present its recommen-
dations to the next synodical convention.

Mount Hope Lutheran Church

Casper, Wyo.

John G. Evans III, Secretary

J.B. Brown, Pastor

4-50
To Include in the Handbook the Formula
for Membership in the LCEF

WHEREAS, The bylaws of the Lutheran Church Extension
Fund spell out the formula for members of the Lutheran
Church Extension Fund; and

WHEREAS, Requests have come to include this formula for
membership also in the Bylaws (Handbook) of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 2.621 a be, and it is hereby. amended
to add as a new sentence at the end thereof the following:

As established by its bylaws, the members of Lu-
theran Church Extension Fund—Missouri Synod are
divided into two classes, one consisting of the Presi-
dent of the Synod or his representative, the Treasurer
of the Synod, and such additional members ap-
pointed by the Synod’s Board of Directors as shall
equal one for each 10 members of the other class, and
the other class consisting of that number of indi-
viduals representing participating Districts deter-
mined according to the following formula:

Baptized
Members, Investments , Investments x 915
50,000 10,000,000 Baptized
Members
Fund Number of
+ Balance x 1Q1 - Members per
100,000 District

LCEF Board of Directors
Board of Church Extension
Karl Abel, Chairman

Fred Forster, Secretary

4-51
To Revise LCEF Loan Policies

WHEREAS, The concept and the reality of Church Extension
constitutes a history of support of the mission programs of the
District and the Synod; and

WHEREAS, The LCEF (synodical) has shown strong, crea-
tive, and exciting leadership in support of the mission of the
church; and

WHEREAS, Most of the expansion in the mission program
and the establishing of new congregations in the U.S.A. is
under the direction and leadership of the various synodical
Districts: and

WHEREAS, There is no question about the value of a strong
Church Extension Fund program at the District level; and

WHEREAS, The lifeline of the mission program at the District
level will continue to be a strong Church Extension program;
and

WHEREAs, Support for that program must come from the
congregations and members of the respective Districts; and

WHEREAS, Lutheran Church Extension Fund. in its effort to
be helpful to the entire mission program of the Synod, is often
viewed as being in competition with the District programs
soliciting the support of its membership for CEF; therefore be it

Resolved, That LCEF be commended for the leadership that

it has taken in developing new and exciting avenues of support
for Church Extension; and be it further

Resolved, That the Districts continue to be responsible for
the solicitation, investment, and use of CEF funds in their
individual Districts; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod direct that when congregations
qualify for a loan from LCEF, this loan be made to the District
of which that congregation is a member and then from that
District to the congregation under the guidelines set up by the
District; and be it finally

Resolved, That LCEF be encouraged to continue its creative
and innovative thinking, and that it be actively involved in the
total support of all aspects of CEF at the District level.

Board of Directors
Texas District
Glenn O’Shoney, President

,

4-52

To Petition the Synodical Church
Extension Fund to Find a Way to Provide
Low Interest Loans for Home Purchase
to Staff Members of Synodical Agencies
and Institutions

WHEREAS, The Kansas District Church Extension Fund
(CEF) has a policy whereby a limited amount of money is made
available to congregations to assist their called workers in the
purchase of a home at low rate of interest; and

WHEREAS, The current guidelines governing the operation
of the Kansas District CEF state that the CEF can loan money
only to congregations incorporated within the state of Kansas
and not directly to individuals; and

WHEREAS, St. John’s College is owned by the Missouri
Synod and is therefore not a corporation within the confines of
Kansas; therefore be it

Resolved, That this convention decline the overture sub-
mitted by St. John’s College requesting the Kansas District
CEF to loan money to faculty members for the purchase of
homes; and be it further

Resolved, That this convention petition the synodical CEF
to develop a program whereby those serving synodical
agencies, orinstitutions, can borrow money for home purchase
at a low rate of interest.

Kansas District
Harvey Hanneman, Secretary

4-53

To Make Minutes
of Benefit Plans Available

WHEREAS, Congregations and agencies of the Synod which
participate in the Concordia Plans and pay its cost, and also
Plan members who look to the Plans for financial protection,
have a legitimate interest in the conduct of the affairs of the
Plans; and

WHEREAS, Inquiries for specific information or requests for
specific action by the Board of Managers of the Plans have
been answered only indirectly and in generalities, rather than
specifics; and

WHEREAS, The guidelines for each of the Concordia Plans. in
the Section titled “Board of Managers,” subsection ‘‘Records,”
states in part: ‘‘All acts and determinations of the Board of
Managers shall be recorded by the Secretary thereof, and all
such records ... shall be subject to inspection by any person
having a legitimate interest therein” (Health Plan 9.4; Disabil-
ity Plan 12.4; Retirement Plan 16.4); and

WHEREAS, Requests for copies of minutes of the meetings of
the Board of Managers have been refused or ignored; and

WHEREAS, Distance makes personal inspection of the

minutes impossible for the great majority of Plan members:
therefore be it