# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S115
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Elementary Education 115

Sunday-School-Teacher Training

On this subject, which was treated also in Memorial 202, Com-
mittee 7 brought in the following report and recommendations:

Synod in its convention at Cleveland adopted in the report of
the Board of Christian Education the statement “that pastors be
held to prepare their lay members for work in the Sunday-school
and that pastors and congregations make such provisions for the
training of Sunday-school teachers, so that the time may soon come
when no teacher will teach in a Missouri Synod Sunday-school who
has not received at least some training.”

The Honorable President of Synod appointed the following
committee for the purpose of providing materials so that this
request of Synod could be carried out: Professors P. E. Kretz-
mann, E. J. Friedrich, Theo. Kuehnert, and W. O. Kraeft; and
Pastors Paul Koenig and A. C. Mueller. This committee has pub-
lished three books to date, and others are in preparation.

Your Committee recommends:

1. That Synod approve the appointment of this committee,

2. That Synod authorize the completion of this work by the
same committee;

3. That the Board of Directors be empowered to authorize the
necessary expenses in carrying out this work;

4, That Synod encourage all congregations to use the material
provided.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

School Fund

Committee 7 considered Unprinted Memorial 18 on a School
Fund and brought in its recommendations, which were adopted
in the following form:

Your Committee recommends:

1. That the Districts of Synod be advised to make appropria-
tions in their annual budget for the establishment and support of
parochial schools in mission-congregations and, if necessary, also in
self-supporting congregations;

2. That District mission boards, as heretofore, make appropria-
tions for schools in the mission-congregations under their jurisdic-
tion from the school fund and that Districts, at their discretion,
designate either the Mission Board or the District Board of Educa-
tion, or both, acting jointly, to make subsidies from this fund for
schools in self-supporting congregations;

3. That a Synodical School Fund be created;

4. That the Secretary of Missions and the Secretary of Schools,
together with their boards, be directed to determine and to suggest