# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1110
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

412 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

Resolved, That Synod’s Board of Directors and the
Conference transfer the listing of appropriations for the Board:
Young People’s Work from its present location (No. 78, Treas
Report, Memorial 803) to its proper position immediately followi
listing No. 27, entitled “Parish Education,”

Nore. — Introducing this report, Prof. O. H. Theiss conferred a ci
tion on President Behnken for his part in the cause of our youth,

Report of the Student Service Commission
(Memorial 302)

The past triennium was, under God, an eventful and fruit
one for Synod’s department of student service. It witnessed the
dedication of initial student chapels and centers authorized b
synodical Districts in a total construction program = exceeding,
$2,000,000. It witnessed the universal introduction of District cc
ordinators of student work with a laudable increase in campusi,gi
consciousness and emphasis of student service. While the triennium,
also witnessed the conventional indication and recognition of:

“campus opportunities which could not be met by certain finand,
cially handicapped synodical Districts, the same triennium wits
nessed the extraordinary recommendation of caution upon 8:
number of Districts whose construction plans exceeded our Com-:
mission’s estimate of good stewardship in the area of studen
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 wh
had been hostile to the Church, pledged their allegiance to Chris
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
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, inaugurat
a file of college-trained men and women, a file of Doctors of P
losophy, and a file of men and women on the faculties of colleg
and universities, and also instituted. a placement ‘service whi
in its present stage, is limited to the field of education.

‘In the matter of overseas student work our Commission ens
couraged Gamma Delta to adopt as its project the Tokyo Luthera
Student Center, which required furnishings and equipment. ‘Othe!
opportunities in foreign student work werk referred to Synod's