# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S304
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PARISH EDUCATION 303

Wuereas, The range of the Sunday school has been extended
downward and upward during this time; and

Wuereas, These extensions have increased the demands made
on the Sunday school editors so that they can no longer give the
kind of attention to the administrative, promotional, and leadership
concerns which this expanding educational and missionary agency
of the church deserves; therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That Synod empower its Board of Directors
after further consideration of the matter to authorize the Board
for Parish Education to call a general Sunday school secretary;
and be it further

Resolved, (b) That the following areas of attention constitute
in general the duties of this office:

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

2. 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;

3. The great need of a training program of lay Sunday school
superintendents and department leaders.

4. 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.

5. The revision and development of our teacher-training pro-
gram, and the promotion of leadership training in general.

Resolution 12
Subject: Teachers’ Meetings and Teacher Training

Wuereas, 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; and

Wuereas, Regular weekly meetings and specialized training
are necessary to prepare teachers for doctrinally sound and ped-
agogically correct teaching; and

Wuereas, According to the 1954 Statistical Yearbook, fewer
than 50 per cent of our Sunday schools hold weekly or biweekly
teachers’ meetings; and

Wouereas, 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; therefore be it