# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S359
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK

359

men provided by our Commission or by our student groups. Our

Commission is developing an impr

men who have declared their availa

service.

Shocked at the

essive catalog of competent

bility for this extraordinary

Teaching

peripheral place of religion in the curriculum,

an increasing number of universities

credit religion cour
encouraged its qual
opportunities. By authority

called one man—

Church is making

move into the heart
of religion and comp
in proffered religion

teach religion — or

How far will Synod,
education except on

to go in creating.

by Synod?

are including credit or non-

ses in the curriculum. Our Commission has
ified student pastors to create and meet such
of the Houston Convention we also

Rev. Eugene Klug — into full-time teaching

preparations to

service —at the University of Tllinois. The Roman Catholic

meet every: opportunity to

of the campus with religion courses, teachers
ulsory Roman Catholic student-participation
courses. The state universities are going to

about religion — whether we like it or not.

whose budget makes no provision for higher
the professional level, permit our Commission

and meeting opportunities to conduct credit
courses under our Commission’s auspices and with funds allocated

Advance

A noteworthy advance in Synod’

American continent is the recent
politan communities by full-time s

large state universities and subsequently extended to agricultural,

engineering, private, and teachers

students away from home,

s student work on the North

invasion of campuses in metro-
tudent pastors. Launched at the

colleges, with emphasis on

our student work has now found

important focus on metropolitan college students who live at
home. Extension and intensification

gram in these commun
and expansion of colleges an

With the establishment of our church in Pacific isles, campus
work was promptly inaugurated at the University of Hawaii, and
early in 1956 a representative of our church in the Philippines
tain duties enabling him to concentrate on

University of the Philippines.

was relieved of cer
students and staff at the

A vigorous program

of our student service pro-

ities must keep pace with the extension
d universities in these communities.

Recruitment

of recruitment of students for temporary
or permanent full-time church work was recently launched by
the Student Service Commission in conjunction with Synod’s Board
for Parish Education and its Board

of Social Welfare. This con-