# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S453
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 4538

such films and sufficient publicity, the entire initial cost could be
liquidated within a short time. And if such films are a paying
__ proposition from the financial angle, they will most certainly be
a paying proposition from the spiritual angle.

Workshops in Colleges and Seminaries

Several of our colleges and seminaries expressed their willing-
ness to inaugurate training courses, or workshops, for our audio-
visual education department. In the future such shops should
be established. We feel that if every one of our young candidates
for the preaching and teaching profession were acquainted with the
great possibilities visual education holds for the future, much of
the preparatory work of our Department in the various parishes
would be eliminated. By means of such workshops our men will
be better equipped to make use of these modern tools of education
and be prepared to face audio-visual problems when placed into
the fields. 7

No report of this kind, can be finished without a few words
regarding the unlimited opportunities in this our Church’s second
century for Christ. Vast changes will loom before us — changes in
the economical, social, and spiritual aspects of our lives. All of
them must be met in some manner or other. We, who carry the
true banner of His Word to all nations, must avail ourselves of
modern developments, modern ingenuity, modern progress, to
achieve as great an acceptance of the old Gospel as possible and
wherever possible.

Towards this resolve a modern, wide-awake, progressive
missionary and audio-visual education department of our Church
can do much. Such a department’s entire program, integrated and
essential, must present to the world a new front that is up to date,
alert, and ever aware of its opportunities to bring lost souls to the
Savior of man.

Visual Education Service — General
January 31, 1947 -
Profit and Loss Statement '

Proft Loss Balance
October, 1942, to January, 1944 —_____ $3,954.90
February 1, 1944, to January 31, 1945 _.____ 4,130.21
February 1, 1945, to January 31, 1946 721.10
February 1, 1946, to January 31, 1947 _____._ $9,150.83
Total Loss ———_____- $8,806.21
Total Profit ______EE . 9,150.83
Profit ——————_______ $ 344.62
Loss on “Out of the Depths” —_________ 4,101.69 4,101.69

Ner Loss as of January 31, 1947 —.— $3,757.07

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