# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S275
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 275

Where released-time instruction is permitted, our Church
should seize the opportunity to make use of this additional time
for religious instruction. Indeed, in view of the widespread use
of this agency, it is probable that many more communities would
introduce it if our local pastors would take the initiative and
request it. With a complete series of teacher’s manuals and
pupil’s worksheets available, we are in a position to do effective
work in this area.

Released-time instruction, like other part-time agencies, af-
fords many missionary opportunities. Experience has shown that
large numbers of children attending the classes are from non-
Lutheran homes; that many are won for the Sunday school,
some for the parochial school, and eventually many for confirma~
tion classes. Released-time instruction opens up homes to our
Church, and often parents and other relatives of children in the
classes are won for Jesus.

High Schools

At the Saginaw Convention, Synod adopted the following
recommendations of the Board for Higher Education (Proceedings,
pp. 433—434).

“1, That the synodical Board of Christian Education and the
Board for Higher Education be definitely instructed to enter upon
active support of a program of general education on the high
school level. We think of this support in the same general terms
in which the Board of Christian Education is now supporting and
guiding the work of our elementary schools.

“2. That Synod declare it as its policy to encourage congrega-
tions and groups of congregations to establish independent Chris-
tian high schools.

“3. That the Boards be instructed to survey the most prom-
ising fields, to assist in organizing the congregations or individuals
necessary for the support of an institution in a given locality, and
to lend every possible aid to the establishment and maintenance
of Lutheran high schools and, wherever feasible, also junior col-
leges in various sections of Synod, subject, however, to the limita-
tion that Synod in no wise contribute from its treasury for the erec-
tion and maintenance of such high schools and junior colleges.”

In accordance with this directive the Board for Parish Edu-
cation became active in this new area of responsibility. The mono-
graph The Lutheran High School was produced in co-operation
with the Lutheran Education Association and made available to
committees interested in studying the possibility of establishing
Lutheran high schools. The Board also took part in the ac-