# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S282
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION

8. Materials for the teachers of adults.

9. Promotion of the Sunday school.

10. Leadership training.

11. Nursery class materials for the Sunday school.

12. Parents’ Guides for the Sunday school.

13. New Sunday school courses.

14. Summer conferences and camps.

15. Audio-visual aids.

16. Guidance for Sunday school superintendents.

17. Standards for the Sunday school.

18. The Extension Department of the Sunday school.

19. A Sunday school manual.

20. More contact with District Boards of Education.

21. More promotion of various phases of parish education.

22. More field work.

Some of these areas have already received attention; other
areas will receive consideration by the Staff and Board for
eventual development.

A further part of the program of evaluation was a consideration
of principles which should guide the Board in its work. Three
basic principles were enunciated, namely:

1. Field work should not be divorced from writing. The Board
feels that some field work is necessary to the stimulation of the
writer to help him keep contact with the grass roots of the church.

2. As a long-range program the Board must encourage the
location, development, and use of outside writing talent. The
Board has participated with Concordia Publishing House, with
the General Literature Board, and with Concordia Teachers College,
River Forest, in sponsoring a Writers’ Workshop in 1954, 1955,
and 1956. It has also located talent that can be used for specific
needs and has made use of such talent for the production of
materials for the school, the Sunday school, the vacation Bible
school, Bible class courses, and other specific items in its program
of producing materials.

3. The production of new programs in the field of parish edu-
cation should be timed and evaluated on the basis of the capacity
of the field to absorb such programs. Proper timing will permit us
to shape up a long-range program in which the various areas of
concern will receive major attention in an orderly way.

The Salarying of Staff Members. — During the past triennium
the Board for Parish Education consulted with the Board of