# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S553
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 553

“There is a very real need for the recruitment of young
for this field of service and of aiding them by the
‘of: scholarships both on the undergraduate and graduate
he Wheat Ridge Foundation and a number of local
our Church have pioneered in this area, and the Board
elfare hopes that within the near future it may engage
the recruitment of workers by setting up scholarship
dents to aid them in obtaining the necessary training.
kers must still be trained in secular and non-Lutheran
and the Department hopes eventually to be instrumental
« of establishing a Lutheran School of Social Work in
our own institutions. : ;
eference to institutional chaplains, as we already pointed
is also a dearth of men adequately trained to meet the
nts established by hospitals and other institutions. Many
esire to obtain the necessary clinical training in pastoral
alify them for chaplaincies, but they are unable to defray
such training. The Board of Social Welfare has there-
ed the sum of $1,500 in its budget for 1953, which is
for the granting of subsidies to chaplains who desire
clinical training in pastoral care. The Board is now giving
on to the setting up of the machinery for the administra-
fund. .

pation in the Work of Other Synodical Agencies

dance with the directives given to the Board of Social
,the Department is to be the general correlating agency
burch in all welfare projects. Since the Department is

directed to participate in the work of relief, the
Secretary was appointed a member of the Board of
the Board of Directors of Synod. The Board of Social
Maintains close contact with the Family Life Com-
e. Committee for a Research Project on Psychology and
xthe National Council of Lutheran Agencies, various com-

agencies of Synod, and others. It is hoped that through
acipation in the work of these boards and committees
of purpose and better correlation of efforts will result.

8, Public and Private Welfare Agencies

mon with many citizens, particularly with members
tian Church, members of the Board of Social Welfare
with concern the rapid rise and development of public
ies. While conceding their necessity and the worth-
their efforts, we believe that public or tax-supported
never supplant agencies of mercy established by the