# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S256
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

302 PARISH EDUCATION

them to develop greater home-church co-operation, more home ‘

visitation and effective marriage counseling.

13. That our congregations encourage their pastors, teachers,
and lay workers to get special training for an effective program
of family life education; and that the Board for Parish Education,
through its Family Life Committee, assist the Districts in providing
opportunities for such training.

2. Parochial Schools .

2.1. That Synod provide additional facilities for teacher train.
ing to meet the desperate demand for teachers in our expanding
school system.

2.2. That a judicious recruiting system be inaugurated in order
to provide the necessary number of male students for the teachers
colleges, the details to be worked out by the Board for Parish
Education in co-operation with the teachers colleges.

Nore: The Board for Higher Education and the Committee on
Enrollment Trends and Teacher Demand will have specific recom-
mendations concerning both the foregoing points.

23. That a more determined effort be made to reach the en-
rollment goal of 50 per cent of our children in elementary schools.
(The gain during the past triennium was only 1.7 per cent, that is,
from 32 per cent in 1945 to 33.7 per cent in 1948, though the enroll-
ment for the same period increased by 14,253 and the number of
teachers by 473).

24. That the missionary efforts of the schools be increased
and encouraged and that provision be made to receive into our
schools the increasing number of children on “waiting lists,” either
by local congregations themselves or by means of a subsidy from
the Districts.

3. The Status of the Teacher

3.1. Since it has been necessary for synodical officials and for
the Board for Parish Education to clarify the status of the Lutheran
male teacher, and since a formal approval of the action of its of-
ficials in this matter has not heretofore been given by Synod itself,
it is requested that Synod officially approve the clarification given
to the Government of the status of the Lutheran male teacher.

4. High Schools

4.1. That Synod remind Lutheran communities not to lose sight
of the desirability of following up the program of Lutheran ele-
mentary education with a good program of Lutheran secondary
education; and, conversely, not to forget the fact that any success-
ful program of Lutheran secondary education must be undergirded

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with “a: sound program of Lutheran elementary education. This
m eans that congregations in the community should establish and

ntain an adequate number of Lutheran elementary schools
before a high school project is undertaken.

5, Sunday Schools

5.1. That the many congregations without a nursery depart-
ment be urged to introduce this department so as to assist parents
in the Christian training of their children and to enlist a growing
number of small children for the educational program of the
Sunday school.

5.2, That every congregation be urged to develop an adequate
program of evangelism on the basis of the suggestions given in the
Lutheran Education Week booklet Evangelism Through the Sun-
day School.

53. That the program of missionary education be intensified
with the regular observance of a monthly Mission Sunday by all
Sunday schools, and that the mission talks and other materials
prepared by Synod be used faithfully for the missionary educa-
tion of the young.

5.4. That all congregations be urged to examine their Sunday
school facilities for all departments of the Sunday school from
pre-school to adult and, where necessary, provide improved and
adequate facilities for Sunday schools and vacation Bible schools.

5.5. That Synod authorize the Board for Parish Education, in
consultation with the Hymnology Committee, to prepare a Sunday
school hymnal according to the specifications listed in the Sunday
school report.

6. Vacation Bible Schools, Saturday Schools, Released-Time
Classes.

6.1. That all congregations be urged to recognize the dire need
of a thorough Christian education for all children, provide ample
opportunity for such education, and make use of a variety of
agencies to reach the maximum number of children and to provide
the maximum amount of time for Christian education.

6.2. That Synod encourage congregations to continue the pro-
gram of released-time classes which they have set up, and en-
courage other congregations to introduce such classes wherever
possible.

6.3. That Synod urge all congregations that do not maintain
a parochial school to explore the possibility of beginning a Satur~
day school. :

6.4. That Synod urge the more than fifty per cent of its con-