# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S733
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 733

afe acceptance of the proposed code will be reported at this year’s
tional convention.

the meantime efforts have been made to set up a program
R: clinical training at Concordia Seminary and in co-operation
bth the St. Louis City Mission. Professor Mahnke has been offer-
classroom instruction in the techniques of pastoral counseling,
Both on the undergraduate and the graduate level, to all students,
in d has been supervising the program of clinical training in the
Bt, Louis City Mission. These efforts, however, are only the feeble
Beginning of a program which must be intensified and expanded
fo meet the high standards of training which will be adopted by
Ail the various training centers which desire to have their students
2 redited as professional hospital chaplains. The Department, in
Feo-operation with Concordia Seminary, has been instrumental in
the preparation of plans for the enlarging of our efforts at our
Fseminaries.
- These plans envision opportunities for the training of theo-
Jogical students as well as pastors who desire to improve their skills
; in pastoral care. We hope soon to make real progress by setting up
F several training centers staffed with accredited supervisor chaplains
F‘and by persuading our seminaries to offer more classroom instruc-
} tion in these subjects. This will insure a continuance of the ex-
} tensive and blessed work in institutional missions in which over
f 80 pastors are engaged as full-time chaplains and some 600 pastors
* are giving part-time service.

3. Surveys and Studies

The Department of Social Welfare offers its services to synodi-
4 cal Districts, mission boards, institutional mission societies and
: agencies, and institutions of charity in making surveys or studies
: of existing needs and opportunities for doing institutional mission
- and welfare work in any given area. The Department is also offer-
« ing to render aid to institutions and agencies which wish to
- improve or enlarge the services they are rendering our people.
This service evidently has filled a very real need, since the Execu-
tive Secretary, aided by a score of part-time consultants, has been
busily engaged responding to such requests.

The following synodical Districts requested a study of needs
and opportunities for institutional mission or welfare work in
their respective areas:

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

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

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