# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S305
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

304 PARISH EDUCATION

Resolved, (a) 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
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); and be it further

Resolved, (b) That Synod urge and admonish congregations
to inaugurate and maintain regular weekly meetings as the rule
(and resort to biweekly meetings only as an emergency) for their
Sunday school teachers to prepare the lesson for the following
Sunday; and be it further

Resolved, (c) That Synod urge and admonish congregations
and their servants to introduce and regularly to administer the
synodical teacher-training program or comparable training courses;
and be it further

Resolved, (d) That the Synodical Board for Parish Education
be instructed

a. To survey and study the problem of Sunday school teachers’
meetings, their frequency and nature;

b. To provide pastors and congregations with additional prac-
tical guidance for helping all Sunday school teachers (Nursery to
Adult Bible Class).

D. Other Part-Time Agencies

The Statistical Yearbook for the years 1952, 1953, and 1954

lists the following information on the other part-time agencies.

Vacation Bible Schools

Children of
Year Schools Pupils Nonmembers
1952 2 _ 2,331 165,411 51,864
1953 200 2876 178,172 55,751
1954 Wo 2,606 202,020 60,671
Weekday (Released-Time) Classes
Congregations Children of
Year Participating Pupils Nonmembers
19520 — 414 18,156 5,376 _
- 455 19,499 5,560
1994 0 426 21,354 6,872
Saturday Schools
Children of
Schools Pupils Nonmembers
764 16,272 1,900
811 18,244 2,696

787 16,960 2,176

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