LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 2019, Page 175

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7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
It was moved and seconded to amend the resolution by deleting
the sixth whereas, on lines 19–22 of TB 1:112, beginning
“WHEREAS, The difficult financial situation was well known to
the Synod at large...” After discussion passed the twenty-minute
mark, the chair put the question of closing debate on the
amendment; this failed [Yes: 472; No: 349]. After further
discussion, the chair’s suggestion to close debate succeeded [Yes:
673; No: 123]. The amendment carried [Yes: 545; No: 247].
Discussion continued on the resolution. It was moved and
seconded to amend by striking also the third through fifth and
seventh whereases on lines 9–18 and 23–25. The President
addressed the assembly, stressing the efforts made on behalf of
Concordia College Alabama “to find a way forward,” efforts put
in by the Board of Directors, Concordia University System and
the presidents of its colleges and universities, the Lutheran
Church Extension Fund, and the Council of Presidents, as well as
by the regents and campus leadership, in “a context that was
absolutely impossible to face.” Harrison noted the pain,
especially for those directly connected, of losing Selma; the
historical challenges of and hardships in Black Ministry; his
“feeling horrible” at the loss of the campus “on [his] watch;” and
his prayer that “we can go forward.” He noted sadness that the
“worst construction” is being put on “what was the effort of
decades to make the thing go.” The chair proceeded with the
orders of the day, with the amendment to Res. 7-05 pending.
In Session 9, President Harrison returned to the chair and noted
that Committee 7 was prepared to accept the amendment
pending on Res. 7-05, “To Recognize and Give Thanks for Work
at Selma” (TB, 1:112), modifying it to the form found as Rev. 705A in TB 6:407. There having been extensive discussion on
Wednesday, the chair asked if the body could “give thanks
despite our disappointment,” read the resolves and put the
question on closure of debate. After a voice vote and a call for
division, this carried [Yes: 519; No: 123]. The resolution was
adopted, by voice vote, in the form found as Rev. 7-05A in the
Thursday issue of Today’s Business (TB, 6:407).

To Celebrate and Give Thanks to God
for the 125th Anniversary
of Concordia University, Nebraska
RESOLUTION 7-06
Report R16.4 (CW, 116–18); Overture 7-30 (CW, 477)

WHEREAS, Since its founding on Nov. 18, 1894, the Lord of
the Church has blessed Concordia University, Nebraska
(CUNE) by empowering it to serve The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod (LCMS) as an educational institution
equipping students to learn, serve, and lead in the Church
and in the world; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church led the founders of the
university to provide the funds and land to locate the
institution in Seward, Nebraska so that the institution
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would be a blessing to the local community, the Nebraska
and surrounding districts, and the entire Synod; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church has blessed CUNE to be
a leading preparer of full-time workers in the ministries of
the LCMS, as today it places more graduates into the
commissioned teaching and director of Christian education
ministries of the church than any other institution of the
Concordia University System; and
WHEREAS, The Lord of the Church has blessed CUNE to
equip men for the pastoral ministry through its preseminary and other academic programs so that, historically,
each year between 40 and 50 are involved in academic and
spiritual preparation to study at a seminary of the LCMS,
with the result that seven percent of those serving as pastors
in the LCMS today are alumni of CUNE; and
WHEREAS, God, who created all things in six days, has
blessed CUNE with opportunities to equip students with a
Lutheran higher education for vocations of service in
business, laboratories, hospitals, industry, courtrooms,
government, the military, their home, and the communities
where they reside; and
WHEREAS, God, who is the source of all wisdom and
knowledge, has blessed CUNE by enabling it to serve the
Church and world through 110 undergraduate and graduate
academic programs at its campuses in Seward and Lincoln,
through its high school partners, and online; and
WHEREAS, God, who calls His people to serve in joyful
response to His good gifts, has blessed the Church and
world through the more than 23,000 alumni, sainted and
living, of CUNE who have walked by faith and not by sight,
and the hundreds of gifted and faithful faculty and staff
who served these men and women during their educational
studies; and
WHEREAS, God, who grants abundance, has blessed
CUNE through the tens of thousands of donors who have
faithfully supported the university with their prayers,
generous gifts, and referral of students; and
WHEREAS, God, who is gracious and merciful, continues
to bless CUNE with record numbers of undergraduate and
graduate students, with the university enrolling more than
2,500 learners in all programs during the 2018–2019
academic year; therefore be it
Resolved, That Synod in convention declare Nov. 17, 2019
as a Synodwide “Concordia University, Nebraska Sunday,”
encouraging and facilitating prayers, thanksgiving,
offerings, gifts, and student referrals to be given in
celebration of the Lord’s abundant blessings to the Church
through one of its treasured universities, in the name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Action: Adopted (4)
The resolution was adopted by the delegates rising and shouting
“Amen!”

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