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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 271

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HIGHER EDUCATION 271

than $400,000 has been raised. We are particularly
grateful to the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance Com-
pany for a special gift of $25,000 for this purpose. Total
cost of the chapel will be $595,000, and at the present
time we are raising money from our alumni to complete
the cost of the chapel and also to acquire land on which
the chapel is to be built. We hope to begin construction
in 1970.
VI. Services to Synod

During the past several years the number of grad-
uates has increased each year. We expect to be grad-
uating more than 125 students a year within the near
future. With the kind of education and experience with
which our students enter the seminary, together with
the theological education they receive, we believe that
our graduates are increasingly competent in their ability
to evaluate the spiritual and sociological scene in con-
temporary America. They are expected to be socially
competent, physically fit, vocationally committed, and
academically able to do the kind of careful and pains-
taking work required of today’s minister. Theologically
we expect our students to be committed to the Sacred
Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions, without
equivocation. We expect our students to be mature
men spiritually, men of prayer, of the Scripture, and of
personal piety.

It is difficult to measure the services which a semi-
nary renders to its church. Concordia Theological Semi-
nary, Springfield, is congregational in purpose and out-
look. The training of professional theologians is a task
from which no seminary can disassociate itself, but the
pressing need of the church is parish pastors — men
who lead God’s people into the Word which bestows
both discipleship and freedom. By the use of the term
“parish pastors” we are thinking not only in traditional
terms of the pastor of the local congregation, but we
are thinking of men in terms of inner-city parishes, par-
ish work on foreign fields, work on the campuses of
America, the chaplain — in short, men who exercise the
pastoral office toward people in need wherever they may
be and in whatever changing conditions modern life
places them.

Concordia Seminary is theological. It teaches the-
ology and prepares theologians, it shares the marks of
an educational institution, but pervading everything
undertaken by administrators and faculty is love for
and devotion to the Word of God. The seminary speaks
up and speaks out on critical issues that disturb the
church. The seminary cannot avoid or evade these is-
sues. It needs to exercise leadership and to set the tone
for an entire church. In striving for this position, we
are doing everything possible to get our faculty better
educated and better qualified for the important work
that devolves upon them. The task of the seminary is
to serve and to build a church through helping men to
be unswervingly loyal to the Scriptures and the Confes-
sions and thoroughly competent in their proclamation of
the message of Scripture and our Lutheran Confessions.

BoarpD OF CONTROL
J. A. O. Preus, Executive Officer

(6-06)
Concordia Teachers College
River Forest, Tl.

The Board of Control submits this biennial report to
the Synod with great gratitude to the Lord and to the
Synod. This report will tell of the many causes for
our gratitude and indicate some of the means through
which the college hopes to provide greater support to
the teaching mission of the church.

A. Purpose

As one of the colleges of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod, it continues through 105 years of its
history to pursue its chief purpose: “to train teachers
for service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.”

The term “teachers” continues to receive a broader
definition in the Synod and now includes parish school
teacher and worker, Lutheran high school teacher, mis-
sionary teacher in overseas fields, directors of Christian
education, junior college and college teacher, teacher
in various areas of special education, teacher of the
disadvantaged, etc. As the needs of congregations, Dis-
tricts, and the Synod continue to develop and grow,
the range of the college’s services must expand as much
as is educationally and economically defensible.

B. Enrollment Summaries

A summary report of enrollments in the various
divisions of the college provides an overview of the
extent of educational services being rendered.

1. a. Undergraduates

Part-Time
Full-Time and
Undergraduates Special Interns Total
1967—68 20... 1,395 48 61 1,504
1968—69 ............ 1,358 74 44 1,476
b. Graduate Students
Full-Time Part-Time Total
1967—68 0. 22 20 42
1968—69 29 36 65
c. Totals
Undergraduates Graduate Students Total
1967—68 |... ............. 1,504 42 1,546
1968—69 ........... cones 1,476 65 1,541
2. Summer School Enrollments
Undergraduates Graduates Total
W967 cee 345 169 514
1968 .... _—e 351 179 530
3. Correspondence Division Enrollments
196667 2 1,535
VW967T—BB cece 1,665
4. Extension Division Enrollments
V9CB—B7 nnn ee 215
196768 eee eee 150

C. Personnel

1. The Board of Control

No changes have occurred in the board’s membership
during the past biennium. The present membership is:
Rev. Edmund H. Happel, chairman; Mr. Edgar M. Elbert,
vice-chairman; Mr. Roland Eggerding, secretary; Mr.