LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 2010, front matter 134

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John D. Eckrich, St. Louis, MO;
Concordia, Kirkwood (MO);
LCMS 62; Physician/CEO, Grace
Place Luth. Retreats. S. CMSG,
Wellness Action Com. 3. C. Retreat
Leadership; Worship Com. 10. O.
Bd. of Governors, Missouri Athletic
Club 3; BOD, Int’l. Parish Nurses
Assn. 2; BOD, Luth. Senior Serv./
Luth. Found. of St. Louis 6.

relentlessly erodes our culture, while theological confusion undermines the historic faith in America’s churches.
With its doctrinal heritage and Gospel zeal, The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod is poised to turn these challenges
into opportunities. Preparing men for the pastoral ministry in
our time therefore deserves our best efforts and most rigorous attention. This generation needs men well equipped with
sound teaching and pastoral hearts to shepherd Christ’s lambs
and sheep and to gather in the lost so they too can hear His
life-giving voice.
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Christ’s call to love God with heart, soul, mind, and strength,
and neighbor as self, must find expression in the communal life of our seminaries. Here, it is critical to “inoculate,”
in a physician’s words, our undershepherds toward healthy
lifestyles, caring relationships, fiscal stability, lifelong
spiritual formation, and excellent theological education.
Seminary should invite personal responsibility for wholeness
and wellness in pastors and their families in a grace-filled,
Word-saturated environment. So too, the seminary assumes
corporate responsibility for its physical, relational, fiscal, and
spiritual health … a family of mutual care and abundant living
in service to Christ.

Albert N. Allen, Houston, TX;
Memorial (TX); LCMS 35; Real
Estate Appraiser. C. Elder; Pres.;
School Bd. O. Pres., Int’l. Right of
Way Assn.; Chm., Int’l. Valuation
Com.; Pres., Soc. of Real Estate
Appraisers; Texas Real Estate
Appraiser Certification Com.;
BOD, Houston Chapter, Appraisal
Inst.; Professional of the Year
Finalist; Y. T. Lum Award; Trustee,
Center for Advanced Property Economics.

Paul Hegland, Kenosha, WI;
Lamb of God, Pleasant Prairie
(SW); LCMS 18; Higher Education
Administration. S. BHE 6; Conv.
Deleg. 2. C. Chm. 15; Kantor 18;
Bd. of Elders 18 & Chm. 4. O. Bd.,
Kenosha Area Conv. & Visitors
Bureau 4; City of Kenosha Plan.
Com. 5.

I would like to work toward enhancing the financial status of
the seminary.
Hubert L. Dellilnger Jr., Memphis,
TN; Christ the King (MDS); LCMS
76; Physician. S. Conv. Deleg. 1;
Sponsor Annual Lecture, St. Louis
Sem. 12; Theol. Sem. Symposium,
12. D. Conv. Deleg.; Interim Pres.;
Conv. Deleg.; Pres., Walther
League; Officer, various interchurch groups. C. Elder; Chm., Bd.
of Elders; Choir; Bldg. Com.; Bible
Class Tchr.; Pres.; Youth Sponsor;
Usher. O. Alumni Bd., Univ. of Memphis; Columnist; Chap.;
Republican Party.

Boards of regents have specific responsibilities for governance, including the direct
supervision of just one person: the seminary president.
All administrative authority belongs to him, vested by
and accountable to the BOR, up to the Board for Pastoral
Education, and, ultimately, to the church. It is a balanced system of appropriate governance, one that allows a strong BOR
to concentrate on both appropriate, immediate oversight
and also strategic direction, while exercising stewardship on
behalf of the church.

The strength of LCMS is its confessional, biblical theology
summarized by the three solas. The weakness of LCMS is its
inability to spread this simple message of God’s unfathomable
and undeserved grace to a world caught up in the importance of self or at least the synergism of Reformed and Roman
Catholic teachings. I believe we must find more ways to evangelize as Christ charged us, but at the same time we dare not
compromise His Gospel message. Too often in LCMS, one
has been asked to choose between the two. I wish to help
awaken a unified “Sleeping Giant.”

Louis L. Pabor, Magnolia, TX;
Trinity, Klein (TX); Investments.
S. Conv. Deleg. 1; Fl. Com. 1. D.
Conv. Deleg. 1. C. Chm. 4; Chm.,
Church Coun. 3; Chm., Bd. of
Elders 4. O. Woltman Found. 3.

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