# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S651
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 67

who may also be asked to assist in other projects pertaining
ult Christian education;

That, if necessary, Synod subsidize the magazine for the
xt, triennium; .
1,4, That the Board of Christian Education, together with the
agement of Concordia Publishing House, be empowered to
rmulate plans and policies according to which the family maga-
is to be edited and published.

itheran Education Week

1"For a number of years suggestions have been made by in-
uals and conferences, including also the 1941 Delegate Synod,
mmending that congregations set aside a Sunday each year in
» interest of Christian education. Prompted by these sugges-
ms and especially by the circumstances in which many of the
ucational agencies of the individual congregations find them-
ves, your Board has completed plans for the observance of a
theran Education Week for the fall af each year. The general
jectives of such a week are: 1. To encourage congregations to
alyze their educational program at regular intervals; 2. to stress
obligation of the home and church in training the young;
to assist the congregations and their communities to recognize
@ objectives and achievements of our educational system.
While the entire field of parish education will be covered in
he plans of Lutheran Education Week each year, special emphasis
be-placed on a particular topic. Because the home is the basis
:all education and has the prime responsibility, the home will
eive special stress in the first observance of Lutheran Educa-
ion Week under the topic, “Building Today for Tomorrow.” Ma-
erial for the 1944 observance will be sent to all pastors and

Emphasis will be given not only to the Christian home but
also to the unchurched home. In recent months we have heard
uch of the growing concern over the number of serious crimes
ommitted by boys and girls under twenty years of age, and the
churches have awakened to the challenge of the millions of chil-
“dren and youth who are growing up without any religious instruc-
on whatever. According to the figures given below only about
g,°.35,000 unchurched children are enrolled in all educational agencies.
ith regard to Lutheran Education Week, your Board has com-
leted material for the beginning of a long-range program of evan-
lism in the hope that all congregations will be enlisted and that
day school workers in particular will be trained for personal
mission work so that the Sunday school as a missionary agency
will function at its best.