# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S550
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550 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

the preparation of plans for the enlarging of our efforé
seminaries.

These plans envision opportunities for the training
logical students as well as pastors who desire to improve:
in pastoral care. We hope soon to make real progress by
several training centers staffed with accredited superviso
and by persuading our seminaries to offer more classroo
tion in these subjects. This will insure a continuance of
tensive and blessed work in institutional missions in whi
80 pastors are engaged as full-time chaplains and some 60
are giving part-time service.

3. Surveys and Studies

The Department of Social Welfare offers its services”
cal Districts, mission boards, institutional mission’ so¢i
agencies, and institutions of charity in making survey:
of existing needs and opportunities for doing institutio
and. welfare work in any given area. The Department
ing to render aid to institutions and agencies which*
improve or enlarge the services they are rendering our
This service evidently has. filled a very real need, since thi
tive Secretary, aided by a score of part-time consultants,’
busily engaged responding to such requests.

their respective areas:

Southern California, Florida-Georgia, Northwest
and Nevada, Central Illinois.

The following agencies and institutions requested
received, studies and evaluations of their work and
for expansion and improvement:

The Lutheran Home-Finding Society of Iowa, the
Children’s Home Society of Nebraska, the Lutheran Ac
cil of Washington, D.C., the Boys Ranch Associati
N. Dak., the Lutheran Orphans’ Home and the Luthet

of Napa, Calif., the Society of the Evangelical Luthe
for Works of Mercy, in Boston, Mass.

consultation service, relating to the various phases of

by mail.

work and Christian charity in many areas. In makin et
mendations, workers for the Department, however,”b}