# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S798
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

516-B. Functions of the District Board
for Parish Education

The District Board shall co-operate with Synod’s
Board for Parish Education and shall assist and advise
the local congregation in the organization and main-
tenance of its parish schools and offer suggestions in
furthering the work of parish education.

516-C. Parish Education in the Congregation

Every congregation should be encouraged to elect
or otherwise provide for a board or committee for
parish education. This board or committee should be
charged with the responsibility of encouraging parish
education in all of its phases and conduct or otherwise
supervise the various educational agencies of the con-
gregation in a manner prescribed by the congregation.

YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

517. Purpose of Young People’s Work

The purpose of young people’s work is:

a. to provide for the youth during the post-
confirmation period continued training in Christian
knowledge, in Christian living, and in Christian
service; ;

b. to give special attention to those who are lax
jn their attendance at divine services and at the
Lord’s Table;

c. to seek to reclaim those who have strayed away.

Especially during the critical post-confirmation
period does youth need the careful and sympathetic
guidance of the Christian congregation, and it is in
this endeavor that the youth program of Synod is
designed to give definite aid.

519. Agencies and Activities of Young People’s Work

A. Young people’s societies can be an effective aid
in providing the young people with opportunities for
training in Christian knowledge, in Christian living,
and in Christian service. Every congregation should
therefore consider young people’s societies a valuable
agency in its youth program.

B. The most important activity in a youth program
should be Bible study. The Bible is to occupy the
most important. place in the program of all young
people’s work. Every young people’s society should
be a Bible study group. The Bible must be the basis
for all training in Christian knowledge, in Christian
living, and in Christian service.

C. Additional valuable activities for a youth pro-
gram are these: Bible lectures, slide or motion pic-
ture lectures on the Bible, Bible topic studies; debates,
open forums, lectures, and discussions of topics con-
nected with Christian life; mission study, ‘methods of
soul wi and soul keeping; history of missions at
home and abroad, mission plays and pageants; hymn
dramatizations; promotion of summer camps, winter
conferences, leadership institutes, and wholesome rec-
reation. ;

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