# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S665
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK 81

ions. Some societies have editorial committees which prepare
mail news letters to their young men, and women in national
ice. Others render service to the Red Cross, enroll as nurses’
ides, and volunteer for many kinds of wartime work in their
Undoubtedly there are congregations which cannot attempt to
arry on young people’s work on this wide range of activities;
addition to other handicaps they do not have suitable meeting
poms and other facilities. Yet we ought to bear in mind that
embly rooms and equipment are mere things, and things are not
important as young people. A resourceful and consecrated °
ader will not be easily deterred by such limitations. Love for
e work can often find a way. We should make the most of what
‘e. have where we are. Many successful societies operate with
wer than ten members and despite so-called inadequate facilities.
s is an encouraging fact to keep in mind in these days of depleted
embership rosters. Even small societies. can provide for growth
‘Christian knowledge, living, service, fellowship, and recreation,
gyif they are guided by leaders who are aware of their responsibilities,
know their duties, study their problems, and solve them with
rayer and creative imagination.
° Without the continuous and complete co-operation of the
Walther League your Board would find its range of opportunities
greatly circumscribed and its methods less effective. We regard
the League as an especially prepared field for our operations. With
the District committees of Synod our contacts must be maintained
Imost exclusively by correspondence; the triennial meetings of
District committees with your Board are the only exception to this
Tule. We should like to meet more frequently with the District
Committees. With the League we confer regularly in person by
"means of representation at their meetings and ours, and we are
“happy to testify that we have consistently enjoyed the most cordial
‘and mutually helpful relations with the organization. May we add
here that the League staff thinks and plans in terms of all young
‘people of Synod; its interest is not confined to the registered
membership. The achievements of the Walther League have been
valuable contributions to the whole youth welfare endeavor of our
‘Church. It has been willing to share its resources of experience,
leadership, organization, and Program with your Board and with
the church at large. To enumerate some good results which are,
under God, largely attributable to the League is not difficult. The
increasing number of Bible classes is due in no small measure to
the impetus and drive of the League, which assists the pastor in
~ conducting them. The noticeable improvement and higher standard

:* of choral work in our congregation is due in part to the music
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