# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S294
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

204 PARISH EDUCATION

Committee on Marriage and the Family

The Board for Parish Education’s report to the Saginaw Con-
vention in outlining the program of adult education made definite
reference to the need of help in the field of the home and the
family, stating specifically:

“Christian parents need help and training for establishing and
maintaining Christian homes, solving family problems — young
married adults need special guidance in matters pertaining to
marriage and the Christian home.”

Synod authorized the carrying out of the plans for adult
education and the appointment of committees as these become
necessary. (Proceedings, pp.119 and 134.)

Pursuant to this general directive, your Board has through its
department of adult education outlined a program of study and
action in the field of the Christian family and is setting up a sub-
‘committee on marriage and the family, which is to help supply
guidance in this important field. ,

Conclusion

We have reached the end of our report except for the recom-
mendations which follow below. The report indicates that our
Synod has every reason to thank God for further progress in
Christian parish education in the past triennium. Viewed from
a distance, our diversified program of parish education resembles
a coat of many colors. Yet that coat is all of one warp and woof,
and its multicolored strands are held together by only one seam —
the consecrated effort of our pastors, teachers, and laymen to
make children and adults wise unto salvation through faith in
Christ Jesus. In its meetings, the Board for Parish Education
was often overwhelmed by the vast array of important items on
its agenda. We did not always succeed to dispose ‘of our business
with desired dispatch. We failed to rally the entire constituency
of our Synod to a wholehearted supported of Christian parish:
education. We also made mistakes. We implore God to forgive
us these failures and mistakes. For all blessings which have come
to our Synod through us, we give glory to God alone. -

We move forward into the second century of Christian parish
education with a buoyant faith. God’s mercy has blessed us in the
past. That mercy will bless us in the second century. That
mercy endures forever.

1. Centennial Recommendations

11. In grateful recognition of the manifold blessings which
God has bestowed upon our Church through our various institutions
of Christian education, the Board for Parish Education calls upon .