# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S130
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1380 Young People’s Work

the salary of the proposed secretary for Student Welfare Work,
his traveling and office expenses, and also the expenditures in-
cidental to the annual student census, the student periodical, and
the annual university pastors’ conference.

Our intention in making these recommendations is not to in-
crease Synod’s overhead by adding an unnecessary worker to
Synod’s pay-roll; not to relieve parents, pastors, and mission boards
from the obligations the Lord has placed upon them; not to foster
bureaucracy and official meddling. But we are interested in
strengthening one department of our church-work which has grown
tremendously in importance during the last decades, which, how-
ever, has not yet received a corresponding increase of attention on
the part of our Church to permit facing new conditions successfully.

In concluding our report, we wish to express our appreciation
‘of the sympathetic help that has been given us by many members
of Synod and to urge upon our entire membership to continue to
support also the phase of our church activity which has as its
object “to look after the spiritual care of our students at non-
synodical institutions of learning” (Synodical Handbook, Edition

1937, p. 83, § 2). Respectfully submitted,

SyNopicaL STUDENT WELFARE COMMITTEE
W. C. Birkner, Chairman
E. M. Puass, Secretary
E. J. Frrepricu, Treasurer

Report of Committee 8:

Your Committee has carefully examined the report of the Stu-
dent Welfare Committee, and our findings are as follows:

1. Wuereas, The Student Welfare Committee, according to its
report on p.105 ff. of Reports and Memorials, No. 302, has worked
faithfully and conscientiously within the limits and scope of its con-
stitution and in keeping with what might be expected of it under
difficult and complex circumstances, by conducting a student census,
assisting in providing spiritual care for students in Lutheran high
schools, secular colleges, and universities, organization of a National
Lutheran Students’ Association, arranging University Pastors’ Con-
ferences, etc.; therefore be it

Resolved, That Synod

a) Encourage all pastors to cooperate with our brethren who do
university work in taking the annual student census;

b) Particularly request the parents to report without delay the
presence of their sons and daughters at any non-synodical institu-
tion of higher learning to the respective university pastor;

c) Urge that in the selection of institutions of higher learning
all possible preference be given to Valparaiso University as well as