# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S358
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

358 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

ecumaniacs — involving freedom of worship. There is a growing
and declared recognition of the principle that students and faculty
‘personnel who worship under different symbols cannot worship
together.

Worship-Centered Program

The very apparent attractiveness of relevant Gospel preaching
in well-located District-provided campus chapels has encouraged
our Commission to emphasize the worship feature of its student
service program. There simpy is no substitute for the campus
chapel in attracting our own and unchurched students to the means
of grace and involving them in a program designed to train them
in the art of churchmanship. Multiple Sunday morning services,
the required enlargement of several existing chapels, attendances
which exceed the number of Lutheran students on record, and
alumni at work in church and society attest the effectiveness of
the worship-centered program in all its ramifications.

The aggregate capital investment in existing and authorized
‘campus chapels and chapel-equipped student centers approximate
$5,000,000. Our current concern is the inability of subsidized or
financially weak Districts to provide such needed ‘facilities on
strategic campuses within their geographic confines. It is our Com-
mission’s desire, therefore, that $35,000 per year be added to our
budget during the next triennium, enabling us, with the concur-
‘rence of Synod’s Church Extension Board, to make outright finan-
cial grants to needy and fast-growing Districts, thereby encouraging
or enabling them to provide these essential campus facilities.

Reaching

Reaching unchurched and dechurched students and faculty
members is a major campus activity vigorously promoted by our
Commission. To stimulate student involvement in soul-winning,
the Commission published Witness, a Campus Evangelism Manual,
and urged its use in our student discussion groups.. One student
pastor, who had requested 35 copies for a special meeting on evan-
gelism, was pleasantly surprised when 60 members of his group
showed up to learn the techniques of evangelism.

The attention of student pastors is also directed to displaced
Lutheran and unchurched foreign students whose names and
assigned colleges are sent to our Commission’s office by recognized
agencies and our University of California student group at the
San Francisco port of entry.

Through our participation in Religious Emphasis Week on the
‘campuses, Jesus Christ also has an opportunity to be heard through

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