# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S186
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

186 PARISH EDUCATION

danger the program of parish education and marshal all avai
resources to counteract such tendencies and movements;

c. Plan and direct the production of textbooks and other pring
materials necessary for the carrying out of an effective prog
parish education;

d. Assist in co-ordinating and integrating the various edug
tional agencies and activities intended to promote parish educatiq

e. Assist the District Boards in supervising and directing
formal educational activities of the congregations of Synod, ’s
as the Lutheran elementary and secondary schools, the S
school, the summer school, the vacation Bible school, the .
time weekday religious schools; ;

f. Initiate and direct research activities necessary to pron
and improve parish education;

g. Advise Synod, its Districts, and congregations with res
to problems, needs, and possibilities in the field of parish
cation;

h. Call an educational conference of representatives of:
Board for Parish Education of Synod and the Districts which
a rule, shall meet every year;

i. Provide adequate material for the training of Sunday
teachers and other parish workers.

During the past triennium the Board for Parish Educatio
tried to discharge the responsibilities thus outlined by Syno
to carry out the specific resolutions of the 1950 convention.
shall first provide a general overview of the work of the B
and then give special consideration to work in the following ar
elementary schools, Sunday schools, other part-time agencies, ay
firmation instruction, high school, adult education, Lutheran Edi
cation Week, the status of the teacher, recent developments
Church-State relations in education, and special assignments ;
activities of the Board. ;

A. The Work of the Board

After the Milwaukee Convention the Board for Parish
cation divided itself into the following subcommittees: Commiff
on Schools and High Schools — Rev. E. A. Krause, Mr. John Pi
Mr. Fred Kuhlmann; Committee on Part-time Agencies —
C. T. Spitz, Mr. E. C. Gutz, Mr. Robert Steinmeyer; and Comm

on Adult Education— Dr. P. M. Bretscher, Dr. P. W. Lange, "%
Rex L. Becker. While the Board functioned chiefly as a commit
of the whole, the subcommittees gave special attention to spedtt
matters in these three major areas of work and brought sp
recommendations to the entire Board for final action. The
met monthly except in the months of July and August. Ret
the Board has held both a regular meeting and a plenary m
in the months of November and. May. At the plenary mee

representatives of the seminaries and teachers’ colleges are i