# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S263
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316 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

the living Word, Christ Jesus, who must be the center of our youth
program. Bible study is also a part of each day’s Program at the
Lutheran Service Volunteers schools and at the summer Confer.

ence camps.
Boy Scouts

Your Board, following the instruction of Synod, has also con-
cerned itself with Scouting in the Lutheran Church, Particularly
in the Missouri Synod. However, since a special committee ap-
pointed by the President of Synod is reporting to Synod, no further
mention need be made here of this work. It will perhaps be of
interest to mention that the latest synodical figures reveal that
there are in the Missouri Synod 265 Boy Scout Troops and 65 Cub
Packs. Sixty-six Scouts have received the Pro Deo et Patrig

award.
Need of Leadership Training

Your Board believes that leadership training among the youth,
among the students preparing as pastors and teachers, and among
the youth leaders in the congregations is one of the greatest oppor-
tunities in our youth program. We believe that this phase of the
program ought to be expanded and adequately supported,

This summary review of our youth work discloses how great
are the resources which God has given us in His Gospel for meet-
ing the profound needs of our young people today. However strong
the forces which are against effective youth work in our time, they
can be overcome by the victory through Christ and in no other
way. We plead for your prayers and your assistance in every
endeavor of your Board to advance the reign of our Savior in the
activities of our youth groups.

THE Boarp ror Younc PEopre’s Worx
CLARENCE Peters, Chairman
L. W. Sprrz
Homer GRUBER
Gr1tserT Muczow
Paut W. JasKer, Secretary

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Report of the Student Service Commission

The past triennium was, under God, an eventful and fruitful
one for Synod’s department of student service. It witnessed the
dedication of initial student chapels and centers authorized by
synodical Districts in a total construction program exceeding
$2,000,000. It witnessed the universal introduction of District co-
ordinators of student work with a laudable increase in campus
consciousness and emphasis of student service. While the triennium

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also:: witnessed the conventional indication and recognition of
campus opportunities which could not be met by certain finan-
cially ‘handicapped synodical Districts, the same triennium wit-
nessed the extraordinary recommendation of caution upon a
number of Districts whose construction plans exceeded our Com-
mission’s estimate of good stewardship in the area of student
service.

.. An item which merits special recognition is the. gratifying re-
sult of our soul-winning efforts on the campuses of the United
States and Canada during the past three-year period. Approx-
imately 1,000 students and faculty members, not a few of whom
had been hostile to the Church, pledged their allegiance to Christ
and the. sacred Scriptures since the convention in Chicago in 1947.

Equally gratifying are the reported indications of increased
participation by our college-trained men and women in the affairs
of the Church on the local, District, and Synodical levels,

Toward enlisting the graduates of the yesteryears for full-
time or full-life service to the Church, the Student Service Com-
mission has aggressively Promoted the Lutheran Collegiate As.
sociation and the Lutheran Medical Missions Society, inaugurated

in its present stage, is limited to the field of education.

In the matter of overseas student work our Commission en-
couraged Gamma Delta to adopt as its project the Tokyo Lutheran
Student Center, which required furnishings and equipment. Other
opportunities in foreign student work were referred to Synod’s
Emergency Planning Council. Our Commission also urged Lu-
theran students to contribute toward the Displaced Persons pro-
gram sponsored by the colleges and universities in which they

Coast to Coast not only in their effort to conquer the problem of
Secularism, but also to contribute toward the solution of another