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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 359

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HIGHER EDUCATION 359

6-139
To Keep Student Costs Down

WHEREAS, The student’s cost for education in our seminaries
and teachers colleges in at least some cases now exceeds the
cost of equivalent education in secular institutions: and

WHEREAS. This is detrimental to the recruitment of profes-
sional church workers: and

WHEREAS. Professional proclaimers of the Gospel are ever
more needed as the years progress; therefore be it

Resolved. That we memorialize the 1975 convention of the
Synod to keep the student's cost of education at our seminaries
and teachers colleges at a level which does not exceed the cost of
equivalent education at secular institutions.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Taylorville, Ill.

Earl Schrodt, President
Tom Ladage, Secretary

6-140

To Counteract Anticipated Shortage
of Workers

WHEREAS. The youth of today are the church leaders of
tomorrow; and

WHEREAS. The church is continually in need of dedicated
workers: and

WHEREAS. Secular education fails to provide for spiritual
growth and maturity: and

WHEREAS, Recruitment efforts to date have generally not
reversed the trend: and

WHEREAS. If such a decline should continue, it would cause
an acute shortage of church workers in the very near future:
therefore be it

Resolved. That the congregations of the Synod be advised
of the trend and the predictable shortages: and be it further

Resolved. That the congregations of the Synod exert every
effort to encourage dedicated young people among their mem-
bership to prepare for professional service in the church; and
be it further

Resolved. That every congregation encourage young people
in every possible way to enter one of the Synod’s schools: and
be it finally

Resolved. That, in light of the high cost of education, every
congregation exert every effort to financially support students
in our synodical schools.

Immanuel Lutheran Church
Haxtun, Colo.

Ed Ulmer. Chairman

Albert Quoss, Pastor

6-141

To Ask Synod to Assume Financial
Responsibility of In-Service Training
Program in Hispanic Ministries

WHEREAS, The In-Service Training Program in Hispanic
Ministries has firmly established itself as an outstanding training
arm of the Synod, utilizing the normal vicarage year under the
auspices of our seminaries, having successfully equipped 12 men
and women for full-time professional ministry among minorities
in our church: and

WHEREAS. To date the financial support for this program has
been recruited exclusively by members of the In-Service
Training Program personnel, having been blessed by God
through generous gifts of the LWML, Aid Association for
Lutherans, the Texas District of the LCMS, The Woltman

Foundation of Texas, local congregations. groups, and individ-
uals: and

WHEREAS. The Handbook states as one of the objects of the
Synod (Constitution, Art. III, 3): ‘The training of ministers and
teachers for service in the Evangelical Lutheran Church,” this
training falling under the supervision of the Board for Higher
Education: and

WHEREAS. With the establishment of the Hispanic Extension
of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, the In-Service Training
Program could more effectively be supervised under its aus-
pices: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Board of Directors of the Texas District
request that the Synod through the Board for Higher Education
assume full responsibility for funding or securing the funds
necessary to support the In-Service Training Program of
Hispanic Ministries in conjunction with the Hispanic Extension
of Concordia Seminary. Springfield: and be it further

Resolved. That this financial responsibility begin Jan. 1, 1976.

Board of Directors
Texas District
Car! A. Heckmann. President

6-142

To Establish Hispanic-American
Seminary Project in Austin

WHEREAS. The Synod in New Orleans (Res. 6-22) has already
urged the Board of Directors to provide funds and has instructed
the Board for Higher Education to implement a program to
recruit and train Spanish-speaking persons for full-time min-
istries:; and

WHEREAS. A model for a Hispanic-American Seminary
Project has been prepared and refined as an extension of
present synodical seminary curricula: and

WHEREAS. The goal of intensifying Spanish-speaking min-
istries and of implementing the Hispanic-American Seminary
Project continues to have the determined support of the Texas
Hispanic Conference: and

WHEREAS. The state of Texas and the city of Austin offer
significant advantages for the location of such a project, among
them:

a) a sizable Spanish-speaking population:

b) the School for Latin American Studies of the University

of Texas at Austin, a potentially valuable resource for
students enrolled in the project: and

c) many vicarage opportunities within the state; and

WHEREAS. The Board of Control and faculty of Concordia
Lutheran College in Austin welcome the opportunity to be
helpfully involved in such a program: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod reaffirm its enthusiasm and
determination to work creatively toward and effective ministry
among Hispanic Americans: and be it further

Resolved. That the Hispanic-American Seminary Extension
Project be implemented with dispatch: and be it finally

Resolved. That the Board for Higher Education be encour-
aged to designate Concordia Lutheran College in Austin, Tex..
as the host campus for this extension project.

Board of Control

Concordia Lutheran College
Austin, Tex.

Harold C. Kieschnick, Secretary

6-143

To Develop Training Program at
Concordia, St. Louis, for Potential
Faculty Members

WHEREAS. It is highly desirable that there be a “pool” of