# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S303
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 808

Sunday School Teacher Training
(Memorial 202)

In this Centennial year of Synod, the Sunday School Teacher
Training Committee gives thanks to God for His blessings on the
efforts expended in the service of Sunday school teacher education.
Up to ten years ago not more than two or three hundred teachers
had been enlisted in any single study group. At the time of our
latest report 17,116 teachers have been reported enrolled in courses
and working for credit out of a possible total of about 32,000.
Significant also is the fact that 35,293 credits have been issued for
courses completed satisfactorily.

But the influence of the teacher-training program goes beyond
the number of teachers enrolled for credit. Some indication may
be gained from the number of books sold, which amounts to 184,471,
an average of about six for every Sunday school teacher in the
Missouri Synod. Our Sunday schools have made commendable
progress toward the goal “Every Teacher a Trained. Teacher.”

These courses are well adapted for leadership training for
church workers other than Sunday school teachers. Synod may
want to encourage congregations to use these courses not only for
Sunday school teachers, but also for laymen who are interested
in better indoctrjnation and better understanding of beliefs and
practices held essential in the Lutheran Church.

Pastors and other instructors of these courses are still assuring
the Committee that the program provides the best material for
Sunday school teacher training yet devised by Synod. The Com-
mittee sincerely appreciates the helpful suggestions made by the
brethren who sent in proposals for the improvement of the courses.
We look to continued criticism of the material for its steady
improvement.

In this Centennial year we thank God for the interest our
pastors, teachers, and laymen have revealed in the training of
Sunday school teachers. We pray that His grace may ever rest
upon this venture, and that our goal “Ryery Teacher a Trained
Teacher” may be more fully realized from year to year.

_Paut Koenie, Chairman
A. C. Mustuer, Secretary

Bible Study and Bible Classes
, (Memorial 203)

In January, 1945, representatives of the Board for Parish
Education, the Board for Young People’s Work, the Walther
League, and Concordia Publishing House met in St. Louis for the
purpose of surveying the field of Bible study and to determine

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