# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S233
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK 233

publicized and attractive programs under competent pas-
ce and spirited student leadership were, in the main,
r:this noteworthy improvement.

: ttractive character of our current student service facili-
gram during the lean years of college enrollment, how~
s the necessity of making provision now for adequate
acilities and manpower for the years that lie immediately
n-the greatly increased birth rate of recent years will
tself also in greatly increased college enrollments. Long-
:to synodical Districts from some synodical source, in
of the pattern set by such allocations from the “Conquest
” offering, are suggested as means of solving the student
; acilities problem.

opportunities for Christian impact on the campus have
ar.Church through proffered chairs of religion at State
d. universities. Our Commission has experimented with
non-credit courses in religion on a part-time basis and
g.,expand its program in this area by sponsoring Synod-
full-time and part-time chairs of religion where oppor-
present themselves voluntarily or through negotiations.
fice of principle is involved through our expanded activity

ous feature which is proving increasingly popular at
lleges and universities is the annual administration-
d Religious Emphasis Week, or Religion-in-Life Week.
ars our Church has participated i in the program, which
portunity for Christian testimony in classrooms, student
vocations, seminars, inquirers’ hours, and scheduled
Several universities have invited representatives of
as featured speakers. If our Church is to command
f respect, the Student Service Commission must be
ake available experts who are qualified to take their
ide the skilled rabbis and Jesuits who represent their
teligious groups with éclat.
lishment of the National Lutheran Council’s division of
ervice in Chicago and the retention of our own Commis-
“in this center of student population encouraged
at . meetings of the two commissions, periodic con-
“the two executive secretaries, and frequent emergency
nthe two student service headquarters with consequent
téomes in the establishment and enforcement of student
s, the solution of innumerable campus problems both
pb and’ grass-roots levels, and the ‘détermination of areas
ble co-operation. A universally applied joint statement