# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S355
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK 355

Resolution 7
Subject: Financing the Expanding Leadership Program

Wuereas, Rapid expansion has been experienced in youth lead-
ership training in the Lutheran Service Volunteer schools, which
have increased from five schools in 1944 to fifty-eight in 1956, as
well as in the areas of Youth Workers’ Conferences, workshops
in our synodical colleges and seminaries, and youth caravans which
were begun in 1956; and

Wuereas, Nevertheless the weakness of the youth program in
our church remains, in great measure, the fact that insufficient
numbers of lay people are enrolling in the youth leadership train-
ing program which prepares them for service as youth counselors
on the congregational level; and

Wuereas, The leadership training program also needs further
strengthening or expansion in the areas of youth leadership train-
ing on the District level, “follow-through” on the circuit and con-
gregational level in the use of those trained as youth leaders, and
in the production of resource materials for the training of lay youth
leaders; and

Wuereas, Such an expanding program of leadership training
makes it impossible for those to whom this work is entrusted to
carry it out successfully; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod request the Fiscal Conference to allocate
up to $50,000 per year to the Board for Young People’s Work, above
the annual budget of this Board, in order to provide the necessary
personnel and materials to carry out such an expanding leadership
training program.

Resolution 8
Subject: Financing of Youth Program Materials

Wuereas, The youth groups of some congregations are not
affiliated with the Walther League but are availing themselves of
the materials developed by the Walther League; and

Wuereas, The use of such materials often leads to the affiliation
of such youth groups with the Walther League, for which we are
grateful; and

Wuereas, The supplying of such materials is a financial bur-
den on the Walther League; therefore be it

Resolved, (a) That Synod request congregations whose youth
groups are not affiliated with the Walther League to pay the Wal-
ther League for such materials; and be it further

Resolved, (b) That Synod request the Fiscal Conference to in-
clude in the budget of the Board for Young People’s Work the cost
of these materials not borne by the above-mentioned congregations.