# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S298
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PARISH EDUCATION 297

in sectional meetings and suggested improvements. A revised draft
was then submitted to all District Boards of Education for further
reactions and was given a final revision by the committee before
being published. It represents the corporate thinking of many
leaders of education in the Missouri Synod.

The Standard for Lutheran Sunday Schools will appear in
three forms or items: (1) a large poster presenting the objectives
and goals; (2) a booklet containing the Standard in detail; and
(3) a manual which interprets the items listed in the Standard.
A copy of the Standard will be mailed to all pastors and Sunday
school superintendents with the 1956 Lutheran Education Week
materials. The main concerns of the Standard are:

I. A sound educational program

II. Adequate and trained leadership
III. Planned mission endeavors
IV. Good administration and equipment
V. Vital home-and-church relations

As immediate steps toward developing and maintaining the
best possible Sunday schools in the Missouri Synod, the committee
urges ALL Sunday schools of Synod to exhibit the poster on the
bulletin boards of the local church plant so as to develop an
awareness of the goals. Moreover, the poster will serve as a visual
aid at all meetings in which the Standard is discussed. Secondly,
copies of the Standard, available from the Board for Parish
Education, are intended to be discussed by all Sunday school
workers in meetings this fall, if at all possible. Local boards of
education are also being asked to make a careful study of their
Sunday schools on the basis of the Standard. Thirdly, findings
of the Sunday school staff and the local board constitute the basis
for a full discussion of possible improvements by the voters’
assembly and other groups in the congregation.

The whole procedure, following prayerfully, humbly, and con-
scientiously, will assure every congregation a better Sunday school
with which to carry on the Lord’s work of reaching and teaching —
to His glory and the eternal salvation of souls for whom the Savior
died. Let’s remember, the best is none too good for Him!

Recommendations to Congregations

1. In view of the issuance of a Sunday School Standard by the
Board for Parish Education this fall, and the need and value of
periodic objective examinations of all aspects of our work for
the Lord, pastors, local boards of education, and Sunday school
staffs are urged to make use of the Standard when available and