# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1104
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

406 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

request that the necessary sums be placed in the synodical bud
your Board made this request in 1949, and the Fiscal Con
allowed the sum of $3,000 for this program. Mindful of the ‘
tion of Synod to conduct such a leadership training program,
Board together with the Walther League laid plans to condy
such two-week training conference during 1950; however, the
of Directors of Synod declined the request to carry out this.
ship training meeting “until our people realize more full;
stewardship obligations and we are assured that the ne
funds are forthcoming, first of all to meet our missionary ,
tions and to. provide the needs of our educational program
cause of this shortage of funds in the budget treasury, you
finds itself in this situation that, after seeking to carry
resolution of Synod, after following the request from the fie
place this program in the synodical budget, and after m
request for as large an amount as $3,000 for the first time ;j
thirty years of the Board’s existence, it is unable to carry,
this {raining program with budget funds.

Lutheran Service Volunteer Schools os

A third area of youth leadership training is the traini
youth itself. This phase of leadership training is carried,
the Lutheran Service Volunteer Schools throughout Synod,
by the Walther League and the Board for Young People’s
Twenty-one such schools are planned for this year. Words
cannot describe the value of these schools. We can only sa
anyone who has attended one of these schools to determine
value. To help defray expenses of these schools, your Board:
sored special offerings for this program among youth on Mi
1948. Many of the congregations responded, for which your :
is very grateful as are the young people who were servedye, z
fund is now exhausted. Rather than to have special offerin
the future, your Board is of the opinion that a sufficient ¢
should be budgeted to the Board for Young People’s Work a
by, the Fiscal Conference, so that special collections are
. necessary. Y
Youth Conferences

Pursuant to a synodical resolution in Saginaw, 1944, your
has arranged annual Lutheran Youth Conferences, attended bs
synodical District Youth Committee chairmen or their alter#
These District youth leaders met in Chicago in January, 194%
two. days, one day alone, and the second day together with
Walther 5aene district re 1050, In January, 1949, they,