# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S297
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 297

school, and to make adequate provision for the same in the
original purchase of real estate property. In far too many in-
stances, congregations find themselves handicapped because the
property purchased for them proves inadequate for them in
a short time.

3. That Synod urge District Mission Boards to consider the ad-
visability of erecting a school building with temporary chapel
facilities, as the first building unit in a mission congregation,
particularly in urban areas, This will enable the mission station
to begin with a school and to build up the congregation around
the nucleus of the parochial school. It will also permit more
effective planning of the congregation’s plant, for permanent
chapels erected in the early stages of a mission are frequently
inadequate for the needs of the growing congregation and are
also unsuitable to be converted into schoolrooms.

4, Sunday School

4.1, That the idea of the Sunday school as the “children’s
church” be everywhere discouraged and that our congregations
conscientiously train the young in regular church attendance.

4.2. That evangelism or personal soul-winning be made one
of the major objectives of the Sunday school, and that to this end
a definite program be planned with the objective of reaching the
children and also unchurched adults living in the community.

4.3, That our Sunday schools throughout Synod be encouraged
to build the Nursery (Cradle) Roll and Nursery Class, and utilize
it to the fullest extent, both for the sake of the families of the
church and for the benefit of unchurched families that may be
won for Christ through Nursery Roll endeavor.

4.4, That District Boards of Education give leadership and
guidance in organizing circuit Sunday school associations in co-
operation with the Visitors of the respective circuits. Sunday
school associations afford an excellent opportunity for teachers to
receive guidance in their work and stimulation to faithful and
effective teaching.

4.5. That unusual care be exercised in the selection of teachers;
that regular teachers’ meetings be held in the interest of doctrinally
sound and effective teaching; and that all congregations sponsor
our synodical teacher-training program,

4.6. That our congregations be urged to give public recognition
to their Sunday school teachers for the quiet but effective work
they are doing in behalf of the children and youth of the congre-
gation.

4.7. The Board for Parish Education herewith requests Synod
to furnish an additional writer for the Sunday School Office. We
make this request for the following reasons:

1. The scope of the work is so great as to be beyond the capacity
of one person. The Sunday School Office is responsible for the