# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S264
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

266 PARISH EDUCATION

each year, representatives of the Praesidium, of the Seminaries,
and of the Teachers Colleges were in attendance to discuss im-
portant problems with us. In addition to their routine work, our
Board members and members of the Staff have given assistance
to District boards and officials, to conferences, and to individual
congregations, Such assistance called for voluminous correspond-
ence, many personal contacts, and the preparation of conference
essays,

The Board has kept in close contact with the Lutheran Edu-
cation Association. In co-operation with this organization it has
produced the Lutheran School Record and the monograph The
Lutheran High School. At present our Board and the Association
are sponsoring the preparation of a textbook on Christian citizen-
ship. We are also co-operating in planning research projects in
Christian education.

We have kept in touch with the broad field of religious edu-
cation by attending or having staff members attend meetings of
national or regional organizations that are interested in aspects
of relgious education. Attendance at these meetings has proved
to be invaluable for many reasons.

In the field of promotion, our Board hnd Staff have prepared
articles for the Lutheran Witness, Der Lutheraner, the Lutheran
School Journal, the American Lutheran, Today, and other pub-
lications. In compliance with a resolution of the Saginaw Con-
vention in 1944, the News Service has been mailed free of charge
to all active pastors and teachers and has been favorably re-
ceived. Many local boards of education and some groups of church
members have subscribed for it. Contact with our District boards
is maintained through our monthly Board for Parish Education
Bulletin and our bimonthly Adult Education Bulletin.

We have prepared tracts treating various aspects of Christian
education. Besides those developed in connection with Lutheran
Education Week, we have produced others which give special
assistance to local congregations in establishing additional agencies
of Christian education.

The Board’s activities extend over a large number of areas.
We shall summarize the status in each department and then
present our recommendations.

Parochial Schools

The parochial school was the first educational agency to be
established by our fathers. For more than a century it has con-
tinued among us as the ideal institution for the indoctrination and
training of our children. At the present time, however, only 27.8
per cent of our own children of elementary school age are edu-