# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S347
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK 347

assistance and guidance from your Board and from the Walther
League staff. Your Board also takes heart at some of the recom-
mendations of the curriculum report for the junior and senior col-
leges, in that some of the recommendations for increased prepara-
tion for youth work have been included in the proposed program.
Each year several scholarships to a youth workers conference
are awarded to students at the seminaries and teachers colleges.
This arrangement has helped to develop interest in the program
and has given a number of students the help and training to
develop into excellent youth leaders. Testimony of the students
and the results following their graduation have convinced the
Board of the value of this arrangement.
{ Your Board is presently working on a proposal, in co-operation
with the Walther League, the Lutheran Laymen’s League, and
Valparaiso University, to offer academic training in youth work
at the Valparaiso campus, on a scholarship basis, in the hope of
producing more and better-trained professional youth leaders for
: the church.

5. Printed and Visual Materials

The past triennium also has enabled your Board to make many
mailings in behalf of youth and youth work and to produce several
important pieces of printed literature. These include a tract for
parents, a manual for district youth committees, a manual for the
congregational youth committee, materials for preparing elemen-
tary school children for youth work, a booklet “You for Youth”
on enlisting college graduates as local youth counselors (in co-op-
eration with the Student Service Commission), and a filmstrip on
a congregation youth program, entitled “Growing Up in Christ.”
All of these endeavors have had the closest co-operation and finest
help on the part of the entire Walther League staff. It is your
Board’s sincere hope that the filmstrip will have its premiére at
the convention in St. Paul, time permitting.

The Walther League, your Board, and the Armed Services
Commission are considering the preparation of materials to help

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: the young men in the Armed Forces, faced with so many and
. severe temptations.

t 6. Conferences

; The past three years have also offered many opportunities to
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1 speak on behalf of youth at pastors and teachers conferences

throughout the church. The Northern Illinois and Florida-Georgia
. Districts have been leading in making time available for this cause.
Synod at Saginaw in 1944 resolved that a conference of synod-
f ical District youth-committees chairmen be held annually. Expe-
rience has shown that this resolution was not only wise but neces-

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