# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S172
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

170 Young People’s Work

not only to meet our routine expenses of salarying our Executive

Secretary, defraying his traveling expenses, sponsoring the Univer-
sity Pastors’ Conference, and giving nominal support to the Na-

tional Association of Lutheran Students, but to permit us, in ad-

dition, to make available more pamphlets and publications for our

Lutheran students, to provide Lyceum lectures for them, and to

secure secretarial help for our Executive Secretary. a,
. 10) Discussing the possibility of reorganizing all student-wel-

fare work in such a way that it will be directed and financed by

Synod through the Student Welfare Committee.

Your Committee appreciates the developing student-con-
sciousness that has manifested itself in increasing measure in the
various sections of Synod.

It is our confident hope that this interest will increase and as-
sert itself so that, under the benediction of the Lord of our Church
and through specialized pastoral ministration, our more than 10,000
students will emerge from their respective colleges and universities
with the high resolve to serve the Lord with gladness.

Respectfully submitted,
SynoprcaL StupENT WELFARE COMMITTEE
W.C. Brxner E.M.Prass_ E. J. FRIepRICH
By R. W. Haun, Executive Secretary

Report of Committee 5

Resolved, That we endorse the objectives of the Student Wel-
fare Committee and that we specifically recommend:

1. That the attention of parents and pastors be called to the
universities served by our student-pastors and that such informa-
tion be obtained from the Student Welfare Secretary;

2. That parents, congregations, and pastors should cooperate
fully in sending complete lists of university students to the Student
Welfare Secretary by September 1, if possible;

3. That we recognize the urgent need for trained and com-
petent student-pastors at more colleges and universities;

4. That efforts be intensified to direct students to Valparaiso
University;

5. That we encourage endowments for the spiritual care of
Lutheran students; :

6. That we appropriate $7,500 annually for the expenses of
the Student Welfare Committee and its secretary.

7. That the Student Welfare Committee discuss with District
mission boards the possibilities of coordinating and reorganizing
Student Welfare Work.

Action of Synod: These resolutions were adopted.