# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S234
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

234 YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK

concerning the Lutheran ministry to students resulted f
acknowledged necessity “for those of us who labor on b
particular Lutheran bodies to recognize and respect the lin
which exist at the present time.”

While our Commission requests the privilege of spé
annual conferences of District co-ordinators of student wo
full-time student pastors when emergencies arise, the seve
of gratifying experimentation with biennial student workergs
ferences induced our Commission to schedule these :
conferences biennially in the future and encourage Distj
ordinators of student work to conduct District student
conferences on an annual basis.

Earlier in this report reference was made to the pu
objectives of Gamma Delta, the International Association
theran Students. This fine organization of consecrated coll
is currently supporting two noteworthy projects; a medica
sions scholarship and maintenance of an agricultural a
the Lutheran missionary in Guatemala. Its major objectiv
ever, remain in force: group and personal Bible study and
in churchmanship..

During the past triennium the Student Service Co
continued its encouragement to the Lutheran Collegiate Assd
and labored toward the establishment of chapters in metro
communities from coast to coast in an effort to channel thé
power of the alumni into avenues of Kingdom service.

The acquisition of Pastor Rudolph Norden as editorial
to the Executive Secretary of the Student Service Commi
been a definite boon to our department. His directed a
tinuous use of existing channels of communication has conf
immeasurably toward the development of a campus-consci
His authorized and integrated releases to our student gro
contributed toward Christian growth and the development
synodical consciousness. His aids to student pastors have si
especially the campus tasks of the preoccupied parish
college communities.

While the two clergy members of our Commission — Cl
W. C. Birkner and Secretary E. M. Plass — have cheerful;
Synod in this area for a period of 20 years, Mr. Walter H,;
assistant treasurer of International Harvester Company 2
director of a Chicago bank, was pressed into service as lay ni
and treasurer of the Commission after the sudden death:
J. Meier several months after his election at the Milwauk
vention in 1950. ‘