# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S159
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PARISH EDUCATION AND SERVICES 159

To Commend the National Lutheran
Parent-Teacher League
RESOLUTION 7-13

Report 7-02 (CW, pp. 301, 302)

Wuereas, The purposes of the National Lutheran
Parent-Teacher League are:

1) to assist congregations in helping all parents
achieve greater competence in Christian child training;

2) to assist congregations in developing a home-
church-school partnership in Christian education for
all parents and children;

3) to work with the Family Life Committee of the
Board of Parish Education of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod in program development, the produc-
tion of materials, and the extension of parent guidance
in local congregations; and

Wuereas, The National Lutheran Parent-Teacher
League fulfills these purposes by providing materials
designed to develop a sound program of Christian guid-
ance for all parents; therefore be it

Resolved, That this 46th convention of The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod commend the National Lu-
theran Parent-Teacher League and assure it of our con-
tinued prayers and support.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

To Have Every School-supporting
Congregation Make Its Educational Program
Increasingly Available to the Local
Community, etc.

RESOLUTION 7-14

Overture 7-04 (CW, p. 303)

Wuereas, An essential purpose of the Christian
school is to add a dimension in depth to the witness of
the individual Christian in the world; and

Wuereas, A genuine awareness of its call as a com-
munity of forgiven sinners to speak and live the Gospel
among its own in its surrounding neighborhood should
lead the Christian school to foster a program of public
service truly evangelical in nature; and

WHEREAS, Such witness on the part of the Christian
school is warranted in all communities, be they inner
city, changing neighborhoods, suburbs, or rural areas;
and

Wuereas, The Gospel witness of the Christian school’

is increasingly necessary and urgent as our society
grows daily in secularism and materialism; and

WuereEas, The Christian school at times has been
isolated from its particular community so that its mes-
sage and services have been fostered almost exclusively
for the sake of its own membership in the parish, and
as a result the Christian school frequently is little
known and often misunderstood by the community as to
its proper role and potential services; therefore be it

Resolved, That wherever feasible school-supporting
congregations aggressively and increasingly make the
educational program, the physical facilities, and the
teaching ministry of the school available to the growing
needs of the local community and toward that end con-
sider these and other possibilities as appropriate courses
of action:

1. Broaden the base of enrollment policy so that a
substantial percentage of nonmember children in the
community can attend the Christian school;

2. Actively seek out enrollment prospects from the
non-Lutheran community;

3. Make it possible for virtually any child who de-
sires to attend to do so regardless of ability to pay; and
to that end welcome voluntary community support in
the form of sponsorships, grants, etc.;

4. Conduct building programs which allow educa-
tional space for substantial numbers of non-Lutheran
enrollments;

5. Enable Christian school facilities to be used for
specialized part-time educational efforts during non-
school hours, for example: weekday classes, tutorial
programs, “lighted schoolhouse” activities, etc., to serve
the community youth better;

6. Place Christian school facilities at the service of
worthy community activities;

7. Participate openly and constructively in worthy
community affairs.

Action: This resolution was referred to the Synod’s
President.

Sunday School Curriculum
RESOLUTION 7-15
Overtures 7-14 (CW, p. 307); 7-18 Un (URO, p. 38)

Whereas, There are many considerations that must
enter into the planning of a basic Sunday school cur-
riculum (for example: grading, comprehensiveness, and
balance, as well as chronology, uniformity, and the
church year); and

Wuereas, The liturgical propers do not appear to be
an adequate organizing principle for the Christian in-
struction of our children, because the purpose of our
Sunday school program embraces much more than prep-
aration for public worship; and

Wuereas, Adequate Sunday school teacher training
calls for much more than “covering” a uniform text for
all age levels; and

Wuereas, Both Biblical chronology and the church
year are taken into consideration in the present curric-
ulum on the preprimary and elementary grade levels;
therefore be it

Resolved, That we decline Overtures 7-14 and 7-18
Un; and be it further

Resolved, That in order to have quality Sunday
schools, our pastors, local boards of education, and Sun-
day school superintendents be asked to give particular