# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S200
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

200 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 4

Wuereas, Both District Boards and congregations are involved
in keeping our Lutheran elementary schools on a high level of
efficiency and performance; and

Wuereas, Many factors go into making a good school; there-
fore be it

Resolved:

a) That District Boards continue and intensify their efforts to
encourage in-service training through principals’ conferences,
workshops for beginning teachers, summer school attendance on
the part of teachers, and other useful means;

b) That congregations be urged to

1. recognize and discuss the rising levels of teacher training
and the trend toward higher certification requirements;

2. encourage and assist their teachers financially in striving
to meet certification requirements;

c) That congregations and their boards of education be en-
couraged to emphasize the school principalship as a position of
responsibility, both for general leadership in Christian education
and for school administration;

d) That congregations and their boards of education be en-
couraged to engage in continuous and systematic evaluation of the
school for the purpose of identifying school strengths and weak-

nesses and for correction of weaknesses.

Action: After paragraph 3 under b had been deleted and sev-
eral changes in the wording had been proposed and accepted, this
resolution was adopted as printed above.

Recruitment
RESOLUTION 3, COMMITTEE 4

Memorial 201, page 241, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The need for pastors and teachers is great and is
increasing; and

Wuereas, Recruitment is essentially a congregational matter;
therefore be it

Resolved:

a) That congregations be encouraged to study their own con-
tribution to the supply of full-time church workers in the Synod;

b) That congregations encourage their qualified young people
to train for the full-time church vocations; and

c) That congregations make an official -board, perhaps the
board of education, responsible for recruitment of young men and
young women for church vocations.

Action: This resolution was adopted.