# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S348
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

348 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

7. Personnel Requirements

The continued, important expansion of leadership training in
the area of youth work in Synod demands adequate creative and
administrative personnel, as is indicated also in the “Youth Survey
Report.” At present almost all of this work is done by the under-
manned Walther League staff. Your Board pays only for the sec-
retarial and clerical] help.

The Walther League, in its long-range program of leadership
training, developed in co-operation with the Board for Young

feasible, in the department of leadership training. These would be
an executive Secretary, an executive assistant, and an Office sec-
retary. Such personnel would be under the general supervision
of your Board, but in order to co-ordinate the leadership-training
program with the over-all youth work in the church, would be
members of the Walther League staff.

The duties of such personnel would include:

a. Development, Promotion, and administration of YOUTH
WORKERS CONFERENCES.

b. Development, Promotion, and administration of LUTHERAN
SERVICE VOLUNTEER SCHOOLS.

ce. Development, Promotion, and administration of YOUTH
CARAVANS.

d. Development and supervision of youth leadership-training
workshops at SYNODICAL schools and colleges,

e. Development, Promotion, and administration of a youth
leadership-training program for laity.

f. Development and supervision of “follow-through” of youth
workers conferences and LSV schools on local level (this would
mean regional, area, and local training sessions).

g. Development and production of resource materials for lead-
ership training on the congregational level.

Such an expanded Program, as your Board and the Walther
League envision it, would cost approximately $50,000 a year above
the current allocated synodical budget for this Board.

Your Board is happy to report that the Walther League exec-
utive board has given its wholehearted endorsement to the pro-

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