# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1112
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

414 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

program to meet the increased opportunities in the years that lie.
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Our Commission is sympathetic toward all economy measures |
and regards as reasonable the mandate of the Fiscal Conference “
eliminating unnecessary meetings of synodical agencies. Efficient *
conduct of our work, however, demands an annual joint confers “
ence of full-time student pastors and of District co-ordinators of :
student work, whose responsibility it is to promote student serv-| 3
ice in their Districts, conduct’ annual conferences of their student 3
pastors, and sponsor conferences of student groups within their
respective areas. It is our hope and expectation that a synodieal ;
directive will insure continuation of these annual meetings, which
involve policy in a specialized category and which are designed @
to improve and intensify student service in the several synodical..4
Districts. ae
Financial restrictions have prevented our Commission from
carrying into effect the proposed and approved publication of
a Commission-edited bulletin addressed to every student in our
jurisdiction.. The desirability of such a bulletin was recently réi°%
affirmed by resolution of a synodical District whose students are,
largely enrolled in colleges and universities isolated from our 4
Church. The publication of the proposed bulletin is, like other 4
items included in this report, contingent upon a reaffirmation of...
the 1947 resolution of Synod urging the Board of Directors and 4
the Fiscal Conference to strive for higher levels of subsidy for the.

department of student service. 2
Mention has been made of the inability of certain subsidized .
or destitute Districts to meet their campus opportunities for want
of adequate facilities in campus communities. The only solution ;
to this vexing problem lies in an outright financial grant by the
General Church Extension Board. Our Commission therefore Suge: .
gests a synodical appraisal of this problem in the hope that pros. wai
vision may be made for reasonable grants to Districts requiring.
financial assistance enabling them to meet extraordinary campus
opportunities within their geopraphical areas. Our attention has
been directed to an existing plan whereby every congregatio
having students in college sends $5.00 per student to its Genera:
Board, in our case the Student Service Commission. The Boand
transmits this money to the student pastor at the school in whiek.
the reported parishioner is enrolled to supplement the financia’
assistance provided by the supporting agency. Adoption of thigag
plan, with an allocation of accumulated funds by the Student Serwg.gi
ice Commission, is offered as an alternative suggestion for..thé
relief of financially handicapped Distyjcts. meet
We are grateful to the Lord of the Church, who enabled ig