# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S185
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 151

Directors and the schools involved will develop a satisfactory
procedure.

Synod’s request for “a considerably Greater Emphasis on our
Church’s Mission Activities in all phases” has been brought to the
attention of the faculties of our Preparatory Schools. In addition
we now have under consideration specific plans for extra-curricular
activities designed to foster and strengthen greater interest in
missions. ‘The plan would provide for two-week campus visits
by missionaries. During that time activities such as addresses to
the student body and discussions with smaller groups are con-
templated. It is hoped that there will also be opportunity to arrange
programs with student participation. Visual aids including movies
of the work being done and of the lands and people involved are
contemplated. Library participation to make available books on
foreign missions and missionary biographies would also be sought.
Under favorable circumstances it may be possible to sustain interest
by forming a group which would function under the sponsorship
of a faculty member and which might establish contact with foreign
mission societies at the Seminaries.

On the following matters more detailed reports and recom-
mendations have been requested by the 1944 Convention of Synod.

I. The Education Section of the “Handbook”

When Synod created the Board for Higher Education in 1938,
it was possible to establish only the broadest general responsibili-
ties which the Board was to carry for Synod. In the meantime the
Board received the following instruction:

“We recommend that this newly created Board for Higher
Education shall submit to Synod a revised set of regulations
governing its functions, scope of work, and relation to synodical
officers and other synodical boards and that the Board shall study
the sections of the Synodical Handbook dealing with higher
education and submit the necessary revisions.”

By 1941 there had been insufficient opportunity and inadequate
experience to warrant final recommendations on details of the
proposed regulations. In addition, there was proposed to that
Convention a broad general survey which was expected to guide
Synod into a clear understanding of the status and the require-
ments of its educational system and which might indicate some type
of co-ordination which would strive to preserve the value of
the educational institutions for the Church. At the same time,
the major project of a complete revision of Synod’s Handbook was
assigned to a committee by the 1941 Convention.

As was expected, the results of the survey reported to the
Convention of 1944 indicated that extensive adjustments in the