# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S302
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION 301

2. Regular weekly or biweekly meetings and specialized train-
ing are necessary to prepare teachers for doctrinally sound and
pedagogically correct teaching.

3. According to the 1954 Statistical Yearbook, fewer than
50 per cent of our Sunday schools hold weekly or biweekly teachers’
meetings, 776 groups meet only once a month, 397 groups meet
less frequently than that, and some report no meetings.

4. We are strangely inconsistent when we insist that pastors
and parish school teachers be thoroughly prepared for their work,
but permit untrained or poorly trained persons to teach in our
Sunday schools.

Recommendation:
1. That Synod reassert its deep concern that “all pastors and
congregations provide . . . adequate Sunday school teacher training

for all teachers, and to that end establish regular weekly Sunday
school teachers’ meetings and Sunday school institutes, and use
every other means at their disposal to improve the teaching ability
of the men and women appointed to instruct the young of the
church in the sacred doctrines of the Christian religion” (Hand-
book, 7.07).

2. That Synod urge and admonish congregations to inaugurate
and maintain regular weekly or at least biweekly meetings for
their Sunday school teachers.

3. That Synod urge and admonish pastors to introduce and
regularly to administer the synodical teacher-training program or
comparable training courses.

ACTION

Concerning Section “C” in the report of the Board for Parish
Education, Committee 4 brought in the following recommenda-
tions, which were adopted:

Resolution 9
Subject: Sunday Schools

Wuereas, The growth of our Sunday schools during the past
six years has been blessed by God far beyond our fondest expec-
tations; and

Wurreas, It is apparent that an increase of 75,000 persons an-
nually is a conservative goal; and

Wuereas, There is yet room for improving the soul-keeping
activities in many of our Sunday schools; therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That