# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1045
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 847

=. Directors with a request for a subsidy for several textbooks. Since
. the textbooks for our schools are printed in first editions of
; approximately 15,000 as compared with the 100,000-copy run of
; first editions of public school textbooks; it is necessary for Synod
to provide a subsidy so that the books can be offered by Con-
cordia Publishing House at prices comparable to those offered to
our schools by public school textbook publishing companies. The
Board of Directors evidenced its interest in our schools also. here
by appropriating funds to make possible a lower price for the two
new textbooks, Treasury of Christian Literature and The Church
Through the Ages.

The Board for Parish Education has also enjoyed the co-
operation of the Department of Publicity and Missionary Educa-
tion. Through the good offices of this department it was possible
to make available each year several free educational tracts and
to promote Christian education through various materials. The
annual issues of Parish Activities, the booklets Studying His Word,
Lutheran School Teaching as a Career, A Family Life Program
~ for the Parish, Evangelism Through the Sunday School, and other
tracts were made available with the co-operation of this department.
The Board for Parish Education kept close contact with the
field in planning the preparation of new materials. The Sunday
School Conference, held in February, 1949, made an effective con-
tribution toward the planning of the new Sunday school curricu-
_ lum. The Workshop on Lutheran Elementary One-Teacher Schools,
held during the summer of 1948, contributed to the welfare of our
school system by showing how various problems arising from the
founding and maintenance of one-teacher schools can be solved.
The Workshop in Religious Education, held at Seward in the sum-
mer of 1949, under the leadership of Mr. William Kramer, proved
a long step forward in the direction of improved instructional
materials in Religion for the intermediate and upper grades. The
Board for Parish Education is grateful to Concordia Publishing
House for helping to finance the Sunday School Curriculum Con-
ference and to the Committee on Allocation of the C.T.O. Funds
for a grant to the Workshop in Religious Education.

The Board maintained contact with the Lutheran Education
Association by having its Executive Secretary represent it at most
of the meetings. The Board also subsidized in part the publication
of Parent-Child Relationships in the Christian Home by Prof.
Alfred Schmieding.

In keeping with a resolution of the Centennial Convention, the
Board for Parish Education has issued, since January, 1948, Parish
Education and mailed it free of charge to all active pastors and
teachers. Many local boards of education and an increasing number