# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S131
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‘Elementary Edueation 484

“momentum in the present and’ near future and that hun-’
iréds. of congregations will start part-time’ schools during: the
xt triennium.. The Board of Christian Education has. outlined
two-year graded course for part-time agencies in three units,
o units for weekday religious instruction and one unit for sum-
ner schools. Teachers’ guides and worksheets for three courses
shave already appeared, A number of courses will be published
uring the current year and hereafter, until all units have been
‘completed. The courses now available may be’ used in any of the
three part-time agencies enumerated above. ,

Tracts a ‘. . \

Special promotional tracts.on the following subjects are being
issued: The Organization of a Parachial School, Sunday School,
Vacation Bible School, Central Parochial Schools, Released Time:
‘Classes, Teacher Training. Courses, and. the Cradle Roll De-
partment.

ACTION

Committee 4 brought in the following resolution, which was
adopted:
“ «Resolved, That the congregations of Synod be encouragéd to
make greater use of part-time agencies, such as Saturday school,
‘ vacation Bible school, and released time school, etc., especially in
‘congregations having no Christian day school, but also in congre--
gations having such a school, to instruct children not reached by
‘the school;

' That Synod’s Board for Parish Education be encouraged

~’ to continue, to furnish material for such part-time agencies,

State Support of Church Schools

ao Synod in’. convention in 1941 ‘instructed the’ Board of Chris-
“:tian Education to study the question of government aid to churches
in the field of education. Soon thereafter your Board appointed
- Prof. Paul E. Bente,-Mr. E. C. Sieving, and Mr. Robert Berning of -
Fort Wayne, Ind., as a committee to study the question of state
Support of our church: schools. After a preliminary report this
committee submitted its findings in an eighteen-page report during —
February, 1944. ' On the basis’ of this: extensive study your Board’

formulated the following policy in this matter. and recommends’ it

to Synod for adoption:

Essential Services of the State {

. We. recognize . that ‘some’ services of ‘the State are. essential
‘to the nature of the State, withdut which the State cannot be said’
' to exist (e. os under’ the constitution of the United : ‘States: protéc-'