# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S950
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 367 “t
[1011]
Establishment of Lutheran High Schools

The Executive Board of the Lutheran Education Association :
respectfully requests consideration of the following resolution: 1
_ Wuereas, Christian schools on -various levels have been rec-
ognized by numerous observers as the chief source, under God,
for the growth of a sound doctrinal Church; and

Wauereas, Large numbers of the adolescent youth of our Church
are being educated and trained at present in schools that exclude
religion from the training of the child; and’

Wuereas, The Christian home, which God has established to
care for the needs of the child, is unable to adequately discharge
its full educational responsibility; and : 7

- “Wuereas, Many Lutheran parents are searching for a secondary
school that is concerned with instruction in the fundamentals of
Christian doctrine; and

Wuereas, Several congregations are now preparing plans for
the expansion of their educational facilities to secondary levels;
therefore be it \

Resolved, That we, the Executive Board of the Lutheran Edu-
cation Association, assembled in a regular session at River Forest,
‘Il, March 4, 1944, petition the Hon. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and
Other States

a) To include in its emphasis on Christian education the
secondary level of training;

b) To authorize its Board of Christian Education to dis-
seminate literature that includes the objectives and the needs of
secondary education; ;

c) To authorize the Board of Christian Education to present
plans and policies for the establishment of Lutheran High Schools.

LutTHEerAN Epucation ASSOCIATION
Executive Boarp

per C. A. Kurtn, Secretary

1012] .
Lutheran High School in Twin Cities
DeaR BRETHREN:

The undersigned congregations of the Twin Cities respectfully :
submit the following for your serious consideration and favorable \
action. ; ,
In recent years there has been in our area a growing desire for
a standard four-year Lutheran high school. Such a school would