# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S199
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PARISH EDUCATION

COMMITTEE 4— Parish Education

School Promotion
RESOLUTION 1, COMMITTEE 4

Memorial 201, page 237, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, Our Lutheran elementary schools have shown mar-
velous growth; and

Wuereas, These schools are a great blessing to the children
attending them and to the church; and

Wuereas, Establishing a school on a sound basis requires care-
ful and long-range planning; and

Wuereas, In some of this planning both the District Board of
Education and the District Mission Board are involved; there-
fore be it

Resolved:

a) That District Boards of Education and District Mission
Boards be encouraged to continue and intensify their efforts in the
interest of schools, and that they consult where responsibilities for
school promotion overlap;

b) That District Boards of Education

1. offer their services to promising congregations by way of
advice and planning; and

2. assist areas where interparish schools seem advisable to
make the necessary surveys and studies;

c) That District Mission Boards

1. urge new congregations to list the school as a goal in their
constitutions; and

2. acquire sites and erect initial building units which encour-
age a broad program of Christian education, including an eventual
school.

Action: After a paragraph under b had been deleted, this
resolution was adopted as printed above.

School Improvement
RESOLUTION 2, COMMITTEE 4

Memorial 201, page 240, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, Only good schools have a place in the church’s pro-
gram; and

Wuereas, A good school must provide sound indoctrination,
foster a Christian view of life, and exert an over-all Christian
influence; and