# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S279
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PARISH EDUCATION 279

This growing interest in the development of Lutheran high
schools is certainly a welcome change in the educational picture
of our Church. With faith and consecration, with leadership that
sees the importance of a Christian education at the secondary
level, and with an enthusiasm based on recognition of the urgency
of this project, it should be possible for us to develop twenty new
high schools during the next twenty years. God give us such
leadership! God give us also the vision, the faith, and the consecra-
tion to follow that leadership for the welfare of the Church and
the welfare of immortal souls!

The Board for Parish Education stands ready to give assistance
to District boards and to communities in this expansion of Lu-
theran high schools. As we continue our work in this field, we
shall develop materials that will give effective guidance to high

school associations.
Adult Education

The office of Secretary of Adult Education was created by the
Saginaw Convention in 1944. Upon assuming this office, Pastor
Feucht faced the task of charting a new field. After a period of
study and orientation, he has set up the objectives of Christian
adult education and outlined the fields that should be covered to
get a well-integrated and balanced program.

Contact with all District Boards of Education was established,
and each District now has a contact man for adult education.
A bimonthly bulletin is prepared to foster the promotion of adult
education. Two workshops in adult education have been held, one
at Seward and one at River Forest. Similar means of personally
transmitting guidance in adult education to the local parish are
to be used by the District boards.

Four adult education guidebooks will soon be completed:
Adult Education in the Program of the Church, How to Conduct
Group Discussions, How to Study the Bible, and Building Effective
Bible Classes, Visual aids and other materials are being planned
and prepared to stimulate particularly Bible study and Christian
family life.

The further growth of Bible classes and the enrollment of
more adult Bible students awaits the preparation of more Bible
teachers. Out of this need grew the St.Louis Lutheran Bible
Institute, established in the fall of 1946 as an experimental venture.
It has completed two terms with a gratifying enrollment. The
opening of similar evening schools in other centers is being en-
couraged to facilitate the training of Bible students, Bible teachers,
and Christian workers.

Exploratory studies have been made in the field of the young