LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1965, Page 302

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302 SUPPLEMENT TO CTCR REPORT

and participate in conferences related to the ministry
of the cooperating bodies among Spanish-speaking
people.

Item 4. The division may establish an Office of
World Mission Services.

C. Division of Public Relations

Item 1. The Division of Public Relations shall pub-
licize the objectives, scope of interest, and activities of
the council; supply information concerning the Chris-
tian faith and life as reflected in the Lutheran Church;
and, at the request of the cooperating bodies, supple-
ment their activities in this field and interpret their
faith, objectives, and programs.

Item 2. To achieve this objective, the division shall
be the recognized channel for the publication of ma-
terials interpreting the concerns and functions of the
council, and shall coordinate the activities of the coun-
cil’s divisions, departments, commissions, and offices
in fulfilling their interpretive functions; in addition,
it may:

a. disseminate information about the Lutheran
Church and its work to the religious and secular media
of communication;

b. provide to the participating bodies opportunities
for cooperation in public relations activities;

c. establish and maintain contacts for interpreting
the Lutheran faith and work to governmental, inter-
national, and communications agencies;

d. afford opportunity for investigating the desira-
bility of and, as requested by the cooperating bodies,
carrying on joint radio and television activities as spe-
cial projects;

e. arrange for research in radio and television ac-
tivities, publicize materials and programs available in
this field from the cooperating bodies, and supplement
communication between the cooperating bodies and
communications media as these activities may be re-
quested by the cooperating bodies;

f. encourage and participate in public relations
seminars.

Item 3. The division shall supervise the following
departments and offices:

a. Department of Films — as requested by the co-
operating bodies, to supervise the writing of scripts,
production, distribution, and exploitation of films for
use in all appropriate media;

b. Office of Information (News Bureau) — to pre-
pare and distribute to the media of mass communica-
tion news releases concerning the interests and activi-
ties of the council and feature articles on subjects of
common Lutheran interest; to stimulate the placement
of feature stories in general circulation publications;
and to accept specific assignments in its area of com-
petence for which the requesting body or bodies shall
reimburse the division;

c. Office of Public Affairs — to remain alert to sig-
nificant developments affecting the life and work of the

Lutheran churches by attendance at Congressional
hearings, by interviews with governmental personnel,
and by participation with representatives of other
groups in exchange of information and study of public
issues; to represent Lutheran interests before govern-
mental personnel, in meetings sponsored by govern-
mental or international agencies, and by testimony
before Congressional committees on the basis of policies
adopted by the council or as authorized by the council
in other instances; and to plan and conduct seminars
as approved by the standing committee for the division.

D. Division of Service to Military Personnel

Item 1. The Division of Service to Military Per-
sonnel shall provide means for the participating bodies
to cooperate in matters involved in the ministry of the
churches to men and women related to the military.

Item 2. To achieve this objective the division may:

a. facilitate cooperation for the purpose of providing
a spiritual ministry to men and women in the armed
forces and in civilian occupations overseas related to
military installations;

b. maintain liaison with the commissions or com-
mittees of the cooperating bodies having responsibility
for service to military personnel;

c. carry on studies of the phases of the military
program of the United States of America relevant to
a spiritual ministry, and maintain contact with federal
agencies developing and supervising this program, es-
pecially the offices of chiefs of chaplains of the Army,
Navy, and Air Force;

d. allocate to the cooperating bodies the quota of
chaplains to be appointed for service in the armed
forces;

e. certify and transmit to the armed forces the ec-
clesiastical endorsement of chaplains from the cooperat-
ing bodies to serve in the Army, Navy, and Air Force;

f. give continuing study to the reserve forces pro-
gram, and to the placement of an adequate proportion
of Lutheran chaplains therein;

g. plan programs for the specialized preservice
training of chaplains, and arrange for in-service
training;

h. correspond with and receive reports from all
armed forces chaplains of the cooperating bodies;

(Note: The process for reporting ministerial acts is to be
included in the “Manual for Lutheran Chaplains in the
Armed Forces.”)

i. serve as a clearing house for problems referred
by or concerning chaplains;

j. select and provide guidance to official representa-
tives and standby representatives as Lutheran military
contact pastors;

k. establish and maintain service centers overseas
for military and military-related civilian personnel as
may be authorized by the standing committee from time
to time;

1. prepare and distribute printed material and other
supplies.