# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S120
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120 ' Elementary. Education |
3. Wurreas, A Lutheran family ‘magazine: is desirable for the
promotion of Christian education, and mo
Wuereas, Synod has recognized this need by instructing its
Board for Parish Education to study such a project and by giving
Concordia Publishing House permission to re-form and re-articu-
late its publications; therefore be it - .
Resolved, That the Board for Parish Education, together with

the management of Concordia Publishing House, be empowered to

formulate plans and policies according to which such a family

; Magazine could be edited and published.

The report of the Board for Parish Education continues:

Lutheran Education Week

For a’ number of years suggestions have been made by in-
dividuals. and conferences, including also the 1941 Delegate Synod,
recommending that congregations set aside a Sunday each year in
the interest of Christian education. Prompted by these sugges
tions and especially by the circumstances’ in which many of the
educational agencies of the individual congregations find. them-
selves, your Board has completed ‘plans for the observance of a
Lutheran Education Week for the fall of each year. The.general
objectives of such a week are: 1. To encourage congregations to
analyze their educational program at regular intervals; 2. to stress
the obligation of the home and church in training the young;
3. to assist the congregations and their communities to recognize
the objectives and achievements of our educational system,

While the entire field of parish. education will be covered in
the plans of Lutheran Education Week each year, special emphasis
will be placed on a particular topic. Because the home is the basis

-of all education and has the prime responsibility, the home will

receive special stress in the first observance of Lutheran Educa-
tion Week under the topic, “Building Today for Tomorrow.” Ma-

-terial' for the 1944 observance will be sent to all pastors and

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teachers; |

Emphasis will be given not only to the Christian home but
also to the unchurched home. In recent months we have- heard
much of the growing concern.over the number of serious crimes
committed by boys and girls under twenty years of age, and the
churches have awakened to the challenge of. the millions of. chil-
dren and youth who are growing up without. any religious instruc-

_tion whatever. According. to the. figures given below only about
35,000 unchurched children are enrolled in all educational agencies.
- With regard to Lutheran Education Week, your Board has com- —