LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1971, Page 113

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RESOLUTIONS 113

cipitated a recall of certain missionaries from New
Guinea, Ghana, and Latin America; and

Wuereas, It has been established that a minimum
of $10.5 million in 1972 and an annual increase there-
after, equivalent to the average rise in cost of living,
will only enable The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod to continue mission planning without further
retrenchment; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board for Missions initiate work-
program planning for the next biennium based on
budget figures of $10.5 million in 1972 and $11 million
in 1973; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Directors, on the basis
of careful forecasting of total income and total needs,
give the Board for Missions, prior to each target year,
a firm dollar commitment from regular budget sources;
and be it further

Resolved, That the Board of Stewardship, with the
cooperation of the Board for Missions, and with the
concurrence of the Board of Directors, solicit extra-
budgetary funds sufficient to finance the difference be-
tween the budget figures established by the Synod and
the fiscal commitments of the Board of Directors based
on regular budget sources; and be it finally

Resolved, That this policy of giving a firm commit-
ment and soliciting extrabudgetary funds be evaluated
after a 2-year trial period.

Action: Adopted (11).

(Amendments to strike the third resolved and to substi-
tute “dollar estimate” in the second resolved failed.)

To Retain Staff Office of Campus Ministry
Under the Synodical Board for Missions

RESOLUTION 1-21
Overtures 1-03—1-16 (CW, pp. 23—26)

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
in convention at New York (Res. 3-20) and in Denver
(Res. 1-20) reaffirmed the role of the synodical Board
for Missions and the Districts in campus ministries; and

Wuereas, These conventions also encouraged the use
of the coordinative and consultative services of The
Lutheran Council in the U.S. A. in the work of synodi-
cal campus ministry; and

Wuereas, These coordinative and consultative ser-
vices of the Department of Campus Ministry in LCUSA
are already being utilized by the Synod; and

Wuereas, The Synod has had limited experience
with a full-time secretary for campus ministry utilizing
the services of LCUSA; and

Wuereas, Adequate guidelines governing the pro-
posed relationship with the Department of Campus
Ministry in LCUSA have not been clearly defined;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the staff office of Secretary for Cam-
pus Ministry be retained under the Board for Missions;
and be it further

Resolved, That the conditions of any closer adminis-
trative relationship with the Department of Campus
Ministry in LCUSA be clearly defined by the Board
for Missions; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Board for Missions continue to
study and clarify the way in which our campus minis-
tries can best be served.

Action: Adopted (13).

(On July 16 a statement was filed with the Secretary in
behalf of 22 pastors who expressed “regret over the prema-
ture decision” and protested “the manner in which this reso-
lution was adopted.”)

2. THEOLOGICAL MATTERS

To Encourage Production of a
Cooperative “Lutheran Hymnal”

RESOLUTION 2-01

Report 2-02, Overture 2-255
(CW, pp. 44—46, 124—125)

Wuereas, There is definite need to revise The Lu-
theran Hymnal to provide for the church’s present-day
needs; and

Wuereas, The Synod in conjunction with other Lu-
theran bodies in North America is proceeding toward
such a revision of the hymnic and liturgical resources
available for the church’s use; and

Wuereas, The theological resources of the Synod
ought to be shared in efforts to provide confessionally
sound worship materials for all Lutherans in North
America; and

Wuereas, The Inter-Lutheran Commission on Wor-
ship —- an agency in which the Synod is cooperating in
the production of worship materials — has now pro-
duced two experimental booklets (one of hymnic mate-
rials and one containing the service of Holy Com-
munion), and expects to produce a collection of non-
Eucharistic services and occasional services (baptism,
marriage, burial) in the immediate future; therefore
be it

Resolved, That the Synod instruct the Commission
on Worship to urge the Inter-Lutheran Commission on
Worship to proceed with the preparation of the hymnal
and service book called for in the action of the Detroit
convention (Res. 13-01, 1965, Proceedings, pp. 185—186),
and described in the preface of the Inter-Lutheran
Commission on Worship’s two published booklets (Con-
temporary Worship 1 and 2); and be it further

Resolved, That in such preparation of materials for
the common liturgy and hymnal the Inter-Lutheran
Commission on Worship be urged to give full considera-
tion to the concerns voiced in Overture 2-255; and be
it further

Resolved, That the congregations and agencies of
the Synod be encouraged to forward to the Commission