# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S726
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726 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

5. Promoting Research, Disseminating Information, Planning Fund

Raising, Maintaining a Personnel Bureau, Promoting Recruitment,

and Training of Workers in Social Service and in the Ministry
in Institutions

This directive alone might provide full-time jobs for a staff

those objectives, but others have hardly been touched because of
staff-personnel and fund shortages.

Several research projects have been considered, but no actual
work could be done because of lack of manpower and funds,

Information on welfare activities has been disseminated chiefly
through the pages of the Welfare Review, a bulletin issued from
four to six times a year by the Department. The Welfare Review

free of charge to social agencies, schools and institutions, and to
pastors and laymen who have asked for them.

To obtain better coverage and to disseminate information on
our ministry of mercy among all our congregations, the Depart-
ment of Social Welfare has memorialized the Twenty-eighth Del-
egate Synod to make the magazine “Advance” a more complete
guide for practical church work by enlarging it and opening its
pages to all departments of our church’s work.

Through Associated Lutheran Charities, a voluntary associa-
tion of missionary and welfare agencies, the Department has aided
in publishing Proceedings, an annual publication of approximately
175 pages, devoted to the discussion of problems in welfare and
institutional chaplaincy work, and of The Good News, a monthly
publication issued in 30,000 copies for free distribution by our
chaplains in institutions, The Executive Secretary serves as editor
of both publications.

Courage pastors and congregations to aid in the recruitment of
young men and women for this Christian service.

In the case of institutional chaplains the emphasis has been
placed on the promotion of opportunities for clinical training in
pastoral care,

The Department is continuing to promote this work and has
prepared a memorial to the Twenty-eighth Delegate Synod in the
hope that Synod will encourage both the expansion of the blessed

work of institutional chaplaincies and recommend the establish-

ment of additional centers for the training of chaplains.

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