# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S217
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 217

3. Sunday School Teacher Training
following table reveals the growth of Sunday schools in
suri Synod over a ten-year period:

Schools Pupils Teachers
4,516 456,724 51,188
3,685 270,276 29,629

831 186,448 21,559

growth, the 1951 figures are impressive. The gains alone
‘new: Sunday schools, 186,448 new pupils, 21,559 additional
}. would constitute a sizable Sunday school organization.
‘Sunday school statistics carry an important message, the
of a growing responsibility. The increase in the number
g:and teachers has heightened the responsibility of our
i to both pupils and teachers.

“owe it to the pupils to provide them with study materials
doctrinally sound and to provide them with teachers who
icient in teaching the holy Word of God. To provide the
is a relatively safe matter, for typewritten manuscripts
read critically by a number of persons and carefully revised
joing to the press. To obtain able and trained teachers

owe it to our teachers to provide them with whatever helps
ed in order to prepare for the weighty task of teaching
ord to the children. For the Church to provide these
s is likewise a relatively simple matter. But to reach our
chers with these materials, and to make good teachers
a very difficult task.

Wi fiénthe Teacher Training Committee began publishing
Hin 1938, it adopted the slogan “Every Teacher a .Trained
": Anticipating the time when the program would be well
siished, the committee voiced the conviction no persons were
e considered eligible for permanent appointment as
tunless they had completed the six courses of the First
had earned the “First Certificate.” To expect our
to take six courses, each requiring eight to ten hours of
is anything but a severe requirement when viewed in
of the years of preparation which are required of pastors
ish school teachers.

this report the committee will attempt to give the con-
‘an accurate picture of the status of teacher training in
Hod. We shall glance first at the bright side and see whether
made a fair measure of progress toward. the goal. During
in which the program has been in operation, more than
edits have been awarded to more than 25,000 persons,

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