# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S349
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YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK 349

posal that Synod, through its Board for Young People’s Work,
provide the personnel needed for this work, and has agreed to make
arrangements whereby the personnel can be selected by mutual
consideration with your Board.

Boy Scouts

The Board for Young People’s Work is working in co-opera-
tion with the commission on organizations relative to Boy Scouts
and is in agreement with the procedure of bringing certain objec-
tions to the attention of the Boy Scouts of America. We are grate-
ful for Dr. Iverson’s assurance that these suggestions will be
included in the revised editions of the handbooks. We join the
commission in cautioning against membership on the part of our
boys in troops under sectarian control. Our pastors and scout-
masters will be wise to arrange for Lutheran services and other
needed spiritual service at outings and jamborees. The Pro Deo
et Patria award for Lutheran scouts has been granted to 369 scouts
in our Synod, while 2,422 boys from our Synod have applied for
this award.

Recommendations

In keeping with the findings of the Youth Survey Report, your
Board requests Synod by resolution to urge more support of youth

work in the local parish through the appointment of youth com-
mittees, the use of trained youth counselors, through information
on youth work to parents, and through judicious financial support
to the youth as needed. In the conviction that the youth should
support their own program financially as far as possible, this res-
olution might further suggest that congregations encourage their
Walther League societies to regular and adequate financial support
of the Walther League: local, district, and International.

Following the emphasis of the Youth Survey Report, once
again alerting the church to the importance of strengthening and
expanding the youth program, your Board suggests that Synod
urge all pastors and teachers conferences to give at least one day
of their program to consideration of youth work as soon as pos-
sible, preferably during 1957. Your Board and the Walther League
stand ready to provide a planned program and trained staff for
such meetings. In the past, members of your Board have at-
tended district conferences and conventions only with discretion
and upon request. We believe these opportunities must be met
more effectively.

Since the Lutheran Witness has only sixteen pages, the back
page being used for advertising, two or three pages for official
notices, and the front page for a picture, only eleven pages are
left for articles, the church’s program, editorials, etc., it is difficult

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