# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S301
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

300 PARISH EDUCATION

a Nursery manual, continuation of Bible-study materials on three
levels, preparation of a booklet on Sunday school plants and equip-
ment, development of a complete Sunday school manual, perhaps
work on materials for the mentally handicapped, materials for the
extension of the Sunday school through the week (“Children of
the Church” program of social and religious integration), continual
revision of materials on all levels, activity materials for small
children, ete.

Recommendation: It seems clear from previous experience that
the Sunday school editors will not be able to give the kind of
attention to administrative, promotional, and leadership concerns
which this expanding educational and mission agency of the church
deserves, and that a general Sunday school secretary is needed
who can give the kind of full-time leadership that our Board now
provides in its school and adult departments.

The work of a synodical Sunday school secretary could involve
the following areas of attention:

1) The great need of a training program for lay Sunday school
superintendents.

2) The revision and development of teacher-training courses,
the conducting of the teacher-training program, and the promotion
of leadership training in general.

3) The possible development of in-service training programs
for Sunday school workers through conference camps, workshops,
conventions, and institutes for Sunday school workers at our
synodical summer schools.

4) The promotion of Sunday school expansion particularly
through encouragement of planned programs of field work through
the District boards, etc.

5) Leadership and assistance in developing policies and pro-
motional materials, printed and visual, in the interest of external
as well as internal growth of our Sunday schools.

In view of the above the Board recommends that Synod pass
an enabling resolution which would authorize action by the Board
of Directors after further consideration of the matter of calling
a general Sunday school secretary.

Recommendations to Synod:
Part V — Teachers’ Meetings and Teacher Training
Background:
1. The majority of the. men and women enlisted for teaching

in the Sunday school are nonprofessional teachers and inadequately
trained for the task of teaching God’s Word.