# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S299
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PARISH EDUCATION 299

means of providing additional time for religious instruction through
the various part-time agencies.

6.2. Vacation Bible schools, Saturday schools, and released-time
classes, each offer unique additions to the educational program of
the local congregation. Quite likely few congregations will want

to sponsor all three of these agencies, but we urge each congre-
" gation to study the possibility of each and to adopt those best
suited to its local conditions.

6.3. In any consideration of the three educational agencies their
strong missionary potentialities should not be overlooked. We urge
our congregations to make the fullest possible use of our part-time
agencies, both for supplementing Sunday school instruction and
for capitalizing on opportunities for mission work.

7, High Schools

7.1, That Synod encourage our congregations to recognize the
Lutheran high school as an extension of their facilities for Christian
education. In most instances it will be impossible for individual
congregations to sponsor a high school. The several congregations
in an area are urged to form a high school association. High schools
thus sponsored are a type of central school.

' 7.2, Congregations are urged to seek the guidance of their
District boards and of the Board for Parish Education so that they
may have the benefit of professional guidance in setting up their
programs. There are obviously certain minimum requirements
that a successful high school project must meet. Ill-advised at-
tempts to promote a high school without a sufficient constituency,
without adequate reckoning of the financial support needed, etce.,
will not produce satisfactory high schools.

8. Adult Education

8.1. It is recommended that Districts and congregations inaugu-
rate their program of adult education by making a special effort
in Bible study and parent education.

8.2. It is recommended that every congregation of Synod pro-
mote the reading and study of the Bible by setting up Bible classes
for the adult groups in the parish.

9. Lutheran Education Week

9.1. Lutheran Education Week has proved to be a real blessing
to the Church in the promotion of Christian education. In view
of the effective use which many congregations have made of the
occasion and the materials, the Board for Parish Education urges
wider participation in the promotion.

9.2. Numerous objections have been raised to the fact that in
our promotion of Christian education we have made education