# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S219
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 219

‘be-satisfied until we have the best-qualified men and women
sin our Sunday schools.

mmittee, therefore, expresses the hope that the leaders
District of Synod, in particular the Visitors and District
of Education, will get behind the teacher training program
omote it intensively and indefatigably. The committee also
eg the hope and prayer that Synod, in convention at Hous-
‘encourage adoption of the training program throughout
hurch by declaring itself in agreement with the following

‘desirable objective toward which all ought to strive:

at weekly or biweekly teachers’ meetings be the rule
‘where such meetings are entirely out of the question;

all Sunday school teachers be enrolled in the synodical
raining program and work for credit;

t ordinarily teachers complete two courses a year;

sThat teachers continue in training at least until they have
the First Certificate;

hat teachers who complete the First Series be given an

ity to take Second Series courses and thus remain in
throughout their teaching life.

dd grant us the courage and determination to work toward
ly goal which we as members of the Church of God can
ously set ourselves, the goal of Every Teacher a Trained

4. State Aid to Non-Public Schools
od adopted in 1944 a policy on State aid to non-public
which was reaffirmed at the 1947 and 1950 conv.
tion emphasized the following:

SThat the social service programs of the State should in

e available to all children of school age, irrespective of

1001 association. The Church can accept this program as it
and may even be in its rights in demanding it:

hat the granting of tax money by the State to subsidize

chools is de facto support of the teaching program of

schools, hence also support of religious instruction. We are

o the granting of State or Federal funds for the support
schools,

entions.

lod reaffirmed this policy in 1950 for the next triennium
ouraged the Board for Parish Education and other inter-
ties to continue to study the problem. The Board for
Education has kept closely abreast of any further develop-

this field. Since no new developments have occurred, it