# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S668
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84 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

[302] Report of Student Welfare Committee

BRETHREN: :
The synodical. Student Welfare Committee gratefully
humbly acknowledges the extraordinary blessings of God ww!
attended the labors of our corps of full-time and part-time stude
pastors at non-Synodical Conference colleges and universities dt
ing the past triennium.
Through an intensified program of action at these schoo
pleased God to grant a fine yield of visible fruit, although the gran
total of souls influenced, conserved, reclaimed, or won, only eterni
will fully reveal.
Not only was the number of full-time student pastors increased@
to 13 during the past triennium, but there was also a substanti
increase in the number of: pastors in college communities who: :
gaged in student welfare work on the campuses.
While the appropriation of $7,500 voted at the convention:
Fort Wayne served the Student Welfare Committee adequatali
during the early phases of its reorganizational program, the C
mittee found it necessary during the latter part of the past trien!
nium to seek additional funds for its work from various synodi
Districts. For the development of one established project it
successfully sought financial aid from the synodical Young Peo
Committee and its annual youth collections. New (and essen
projects could not be undertaken. .Our very popular publicatié:
were restricted to bona fide Synodical Conference students. Ma:
terials which should have gone to every student were for reaso
of economy sent in single copies to each student group. Our'C
mittee can no longer conduct its expanding program without ad
tional clerical assistance and an established office. Many studenj
pastors, whose presence at our annual Student Pastors’ Conferen
is urgent, cannot attend because our Committee, which sponsorg
these annual conferences, is unable to pay their traveling expensed;
Our experiences during the past two years impressed upon us:
necessity of an enlarged appropriation to enable us to carry: on o'
normal work. A number of prominent pastors and laymen:e
pressed their amazement at our Committee’s ability to accompli
so much with so little. They have also encouraged us to seel! :
substantial increase in our synodical appropriation. :
The appropriation which we earnestly seek for the ensui
triennium makes no provision for projects not. included in o
present program. Our Committee simply requests a minimum a
propriation commensurate with existing needs. Nor does
Committee’s request include provision for the postwar period, whi
all colleges and universities anticipate heavy enrollments.