Section Seven: Resolutions

Resolution 1-09

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  • Last Edited July 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM 
Resolution 1-09

To Give Thanks to God for the Many
Existing Routes to the Holy Ministry

Whereas, in 2006 The LCMS Atlantic
	District in Convention passed
	resolutions designed to strengthen and
	expand the scope of mission and
	ministry by resolving to prepare 100
	home-grown mission leaders for service
	to Lord and Church; and
Whereas, by God’s grace well over 100
	men and women have been developed,
	trained and sent to serve in
	congregations of the LCMS Atlantic
	District as Atlantic District Lay
	Deacons, Ministers of
	Religion–Commissioned and Ministers of
	Religion–Ordained; and
Whereas, the benefits of this
	leadership development model have been
	visible signs of God’s grace in more
	than half of the congregations of the
	LCMS Atlantic Districts exercising
	various spiritual gifts in service, and
Whereas, mission opportunity remains at
	the highest level in the LCMS Atlantic
	District even as transitions in
	leadership demand more strong Lutheran
	Christian leaders in its congregations,
	schools, and agencies; and
Whereas, the Specific Ministry Program
    (SMP), the Ethnic Immigrant Institute
    of Theology (EIIT), the Center for
    Hispanic Studies (CHS), Concordia
    University Irvine’s Mission Training
    Center (CMC), and the residential route
    (M.Div and General Pastor Certificate)
    have all provided excellent avenues for
    continuing the development toward the
    service of “home-grown mission leaders”
    in the LCMS Atlantic District;
    therefore let it be
Resolved, that the LCMS Atlantic
	District in convention gives thanks to
	God for the many existing routes to the
	Holy Ministry in the LCMS by rising to
	sing LSB 498 “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator
	Blest,” stanza 1; and let it be finally
Resolved, that the LCMS Atlantic
	District in convention memorialize this
	resolution to the 2026 LCMS Convention.

(submitted by the Board of Directors of
the LCMS Atlantic District)