# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S311
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

310 PARISH EDUCATION

- In addition to these pupils in Lutheran high schools there were
in the 1955—56 school year 187 pupils in separate ninth grades and
1,398 students in the high school departments of our synodical
institutions. This makes a grand total of 7,152 students of high
school age receiving a Lutheran secondary education, or six per
cent of an estimated 120,000 persons of high school age in the
32 North American Districts of Synod.

During the past triennium a number of communities have
begun or continued the exploration of the possibility of opening
a Lutheran High School. The communities actively studying the
possibility of a high school are the following: Baltimore, Md.; San
Francisco, Calif.; and Northern New Jersey.

The High School Curriculum project of the Association of
Lutheran Secondary Schools is moving ahead. During the past
triennium 60 units were completed and are available for Lutheran
high schools. When completed, this curriculum program will pro-
vide resource units for all the subject-matter fields in the Lutheran
high school curriculum. We are already experiencing the benefits
of the resource units in our Lutheran high schools. The completed
program should make for a tremendous forward step in our pro-
gram of effective Lutheran secondary education.

G. Adult Education — Bible Study
It is necessary to lead every generation into the Bible and to
give it those basic rules of Bible interpretation which are funda-
mental to Lutheran theology and to the development of a Bible-

using people.
1. The Production of Materials

In 1954 more than 40 pastors and educators were called to-
gether for a Bible Study Curriculum Conference to determine the
needs and the form of better Bible study materials. Out of this
workshop grew the basic principles from which we have developed
an entirely new series of Bible study guides; the High School
Bible Discussion Guides (Walter Riess, editor) ; the Young People’s
Bible Discussion Guides (John M. Weidenschilling, editor) ; and
the Adult Bible Discussion Guides (Robert J. Hoyer, editor),
appearing in the summer of 1955. These have been a boon both
to the lay teacher and to the student and played a major role in
stimulating more interest and better teaching. From 1953 to 1955
the Adult Bible Class Series 100 was continued with the publi-
cation of studies in Habakkuk, Galatians, Joshua, Amos, James,
Proverbs (Oscar E. Feucht, editor). Materials were also supplied
in the Concordia Bible Student and Bible Student (John M. Wei-
denschilling, editor).