# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S101
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Action Regarding Individual Institutions 101

3. It provides for the Cooperative study of problems that arise
and the needs that present themselves on every level where educa-
tion is attempted.

4, It. places responsibility for the guidance of all educational
functions, also of those which have so far not had organizational
connection with, nor responsibility to, any existing committee of
Synod.

5. It is in agreement with the principles of Synod in that it

a. Maintains the advisory capacity of the Council of Christian
Education and thereby safeguards the autonomy of the local con-
gregation;

b. Aims to counteract conditions which tend to disturb the
unity of faith by coordinating the entire program of Christian
education;

c. Offers a means for better cooperation and more effective
guidance of the different phases of the educational program,

Each committee is conceived of as a functional unit dealing
with the educational problems of that division. These committees
may be selected with reference to their geographical location so
that the members of a single committee may meet frequently. At
least one member of each committee should be a specialist in the
field. It is not necessary, and probably not desirable, that all com-
mittees live in one community. Various sections of the country
should be represented in the educational work of the Church.

Representatives from each of the committees would constitute
the Council of Christian Education. This council would coordinate
the work of the separate boards and develop policies for the better
coordination with, and integration of, the educational program as
a whole. Not more than from two to four meetings a year should
be necessary for the council.

Recommendations
We recommend: menda

1. That in the election of boards dealing with education in the
larger sense Synod select members with.a view to working toward
an integrated program. For the first the following boards would
come under consideration:

a. The proposed permanent Committee on Higher Education,
which may in time consider problems pertaining not only to the
training of pastors and day-school teachers but also to that of lay
workers, especially if training is given in our synodical institutions.

b. The Young People’s Board, which may concern itself with
the problem facing all the young people of the Church.

c. The present Board of Education, which may further develop
and explore the possible improvements in the education of children
of elementary school age.