# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S796
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

e. That congregations conducting schools provide
suitable and sanitary buildings to house their schools,
sufficient and adequate grounds for play and recrea-
tion, and such school supplies as are essential to carry
on an efficient instructional program in keeping with
modern educational requirements, and that it use, as
far as possible, textbooks published by Synod.

507. Sunday Schools

The Sunday school is an important teaching depart-
ment and a valuable mission agency of the Church.
Synod therefore urges:

a. That congregations and preaching stations in
Synod put forth earnest efforts to conduct Sunday
schools in conformity with Lutheran principles.

b. That all Sunday schools use Synod’s Sunday
school literature and Sunday school teachers’ helps.

c. That all pastors and congregations provide for
careful and efficient supervision of all their Sunday
schools and adequate Sunday school teacher training
for all teachers, and to that end establish regular
weekly Sunday school teacher meetings and Sunday

- school institutes, and use every other means at their

disposal to improve the teaching ability of the men.and
women appointed to instruct the young of the Church
in the sacred doctrines of the Christian religion.

d. That all Sunday school associations and institutes
in Synod be supervised and directed by the respective
District officers. .

S. H. 86. Dff.

BOARD FOR PARISH EDUCATION

509. The Board for Parish Education

A Board for Parish Education shall be elected by
Synod to assist the congregations of Synod in carrying
out an efficient program of Christian education.

511. Membership of the Board for Parish Education

The Board for Parish Education shall consist of nine
members: three pastors, three teachers, and three lay-
men. The members of this Board shall be elected by
Synod in accordance with its rules on elections. A rep-
resentative from each of the faculties of the theological
seminaries and teachers’ colleges shall serve in an
advisory capacity.

S.H.91

513. Functions of the Board for Parish Education

The Board for Parish Education shall assist the con-
gregations of Synod through the District Boards in
every possible manner in the arrangement and carry-
ing out of a comprehensive and effective program of
Christian education, so that the Gospel of Jesus Christ
may become ever more. effective in the life of the indi-
vidual Christian and that the Biblical principle that
“the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” may
be and remain the basis and the motive for the entire
program of parish education. .

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