# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1101
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK 4038

the Lutheran Youth Conference in Chicago, January, 1950, treated

e harmonious integration of the synodical and the Walther League
‘Youth Boards on synodical and District levels, as outlined in the
FHandbook, of Synod. Members of your Board regularly serve on
f the faculty of L.S.V. schools, on summer conference camp staffs
“4n the districts and at Arcadia, and as representatives of the In-
‘ternational Walther League at Walther League district conventions.
* To be effective the youth program must in every activity
pply and release the power of the Gospel, which alone is able to
win and to hold young people for Christ and His kingdom. The
hrist-centered program chart of the Walther League graphically
rtrays this essential need and clearly indicates the way by which
can and must be met. A program chart, however clear the prin-
Giples which it outlines, is at best only a theory, a vision, or a goal.
meets the needs of our youth program only when its principles
e translated into the practice of every one of our youth groups
every activity. To make the Walther League program effective
‘the local society is one of the great unfinished tasks of our youth
ogram. To this vital task the Walther League and your Board for
oung People’s Work are devoting their energies and their re-

"The materials on youth work which the Walther League pro-
f duces in the Walther League Messenger, the Workers Quarterly,
Fthe Bible Student, and in special pamphlets and reprints concen-
trate attention on the necessity of making every activity of the
uth group a process of Christian growth and on the Scriptural
f. methods by which this can best be done.

* In recognition of this tremendous task the Walther League
as initiated regional youth work under a trained worker whose
task it is to help our young people and leaders of youth in applying
: Christian truth in everything they plan and do together. This is
a most significant step in the endeavor to make the Christian
philosophy of youth work a reality at the grass roots.

“In addition to this emphasis on the development of its pro-
@ gram as both a process and a product of Christian growth, the
Walther League has continued its projects of Christian love. It con-
ibuted more than $5,000 for CARE packages for the summer
nference program of our Free Church in Germany. It gathered
ore than $12,000 for youth work among the Chinese in our True
Hight Church in New York and in China. It is this year engaged
‘directing attention to the missionary opportunities in Japan: by
ging offerings for a youth center at the University of Hokkaido.
F These mission projects are developed in consultation with the
"Board for Foreign Missions and are an integral part of the mission
study program of the Walther League.

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