# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S360
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

360 YOUNG PEOPLE'S. WORK

certed effort grew out of the crying need for social workers and
Lutheran parochial and high school teachers, and the unsyn-
chronized sporadic appeals for qualified personnel in these areas,
(Interestingly enough, more than 100 students currently at our
Springfield Seminary transferred to that seminary’s training pro-
gram without the benefit of a special recruitment effort.)

Through materials provided by the Walther League and
Synod’s Young People’s Board, our college seniors will in the
future receive a measure of guidance and training in youth work,
enabling them to serve as youth counselors and youth committee
members in local congregations and as advisers to committees in
zones and districts of the Walther League.

Tidal Wave

In the years that lie immediately ahead, enrollments will
double in some colleges, triple in others. This prospect imposes
upon us the necessity of being ready, not getting ready, when the
tidal wave of students strikes. Our District co-ordinators have
been alerted to the campus opportunities which will confront our
church body. We are counting on our Districts to respond en-
thusiastically and promptly by providing competent manpower and
adequate facilities meet for the manifest opportunities.

Talents

We also face another concern — getting more of our qualified
young people into colleges where their specific God-given talents
can receive proper development and where our church is effectively
at work. In co-operation with synodical and Synod-related
agencies our Commission is currently in the process of providing
manuals designed to offer guidance to our young people, their
parents and pastors regarding these matters of major import.

Faculty Conference

Jointly with the Lutheran Academy for Scholarship, as
directed by the Houston Convention, the Student Service Com-
mission sponsored two fruitful conferences in the interest of the
308 known Lutheran men and women who are teaching at non-
synodical colleges and universities. Additional subsidy for this
budget item would enable the sponsors to intensify their work
with these people and enable them also to publish significant
essays written by these learned men and women of our faith.

Organizations
Organizations to which the Student Service Commission gives
guidance include Gamma Delta, the expanding International
Association of Lutheran Students (not to be confused with the

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