# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S296
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

296 PARISH EDUCATION

We rejoice in the growing interest in the parochial school and
in the increased determination to provide this agency for our
children. We urge our synodical leaders to encourage the expan-
sion of our parochial school system; we urge our congregations to
make every effort to give their children the benef§s which the
parochial school can provide; and we call upon our pastors,
teachers, and lay people to give leadership in this expansion.

3.2, An expanding system of parochial schools will obviously
require a greater number of teachers, District officials have had
serious problems in meeting the requirements of their congrega-~
tions for teachers. The serious emergency has been met by meas-
ures that are far from satisfactory. Both to meet current needs
and to expand our system of parochial schools, we need more
teachers. We therefore recommend: ,

1. That the Teachers Colleges give special attention to enrolling
more male students.

2. That all Districts and all congregations within each District be
urged to assist in providing an adequate and geographically
well-distributed supply of male students for our teachers’
colleges.

3. That, to increase our facilities for teacher training, Synod through
the Board for Higher Education do the following:

a. Gradually eliminate the high school departments from our
Teachers Colleges over a four-year period for the time being,
b. Adapt the high school departments of our preparatory schools

are not candidates for the ministry.

c. Suggest courses and sequences of courses at our Lutheran
high schools which would prepare students for our Teachers’
Colleges. Synod might well subsidize individual students pre-
paring themselves either for the teaching profession or the
ministry, :

3.3. Relative’ to the resolutions adopted at Saginaw (see Pro-
ceedings, p. 135) concerning the liberalization of Church Extension
Funds for educational purposes, your Board recommends the
following:

1. That Synod urge District Church Extension committees to carry
out the regulation of Synod with regard to loans for new
schools, and also that Synod revise its own limit of $10,000 for
a single project to a much higher figure. This will also require
that the Districts adjust loans upward in line with increased
building costs of today.

2. That Synod urge District Mission Boards and Church Extension
Committees to adopt the policy when purchasing real estate

consideration the eventual needs for a complete program of
Christian education in the congregation, including the parochial

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