Árdís - 01.01.1966, Blaðsíða 25

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The committee on Sunday School work also gave a report,
signed by Mrs. Thjodbjorg Henrickson and Mrs. Flora Benson,
which mentioned the training course as followers: “An idea has
been brought forth at our meetings about establishing a training
camp which young people could attend and be inspired to be-
come leaders and teachers in our Sunday Schools and young
people’s organization in our churches. This idea has to grow in
the minds of those who are willing to sacrifice for it.” The Sunday
School Committee had, namely, found it difficult to secure leaders
in their efforts to establish permanent Sunday Schools in outlying
disticts having no resident pastors, and this proposed Leadership
Training course, if successful raised hope in their hearts that it
would prove to be a solution to their problems. Many girls had
been sent by the committee to these outlying districts where they
had given their time to establish Sunday Schools and had roused
interest among the local people to carry on their own work. But
such girls were not easy to find and after a while none where avail-
able to send out on these missions.
In 1939 there was fair unanimity among the members of the
L. W. L. that the time was now ripe for commencing the much
discussed project. The Canadian Sunday School Mission Camp
was again available and was rented from August 10 to 20 at $12.00
per day for the first Leadership Training Course offered by the
Lutheran Women’s League. Two ministers of the Synod kept their
promise and responded to the call from the L. W. L. Rev. E. H.
Fafnis was chosen as dean of camp and Rev. S. Olafsson as dean
of boys. Miss Kristin Skulason, school teacher, was chosen as dean
of girls, Mrs. Iíolmfridur Danielson as registrar, Mrs. Gudrun
Johnson as dining room hostess, and Mrs. Ingibjörg Olafsson as
camp mother. Miss Emily Bardal was engaged as camp nurse and
Miss Petra Jonasson as cook.
A group of forty-five young people registered and stayed for
the whole course, which consisted of lectures by the ministers and
entertaining programs in the evenings. The students were inter-
ested in the course and many returned for one or both of the
íollowing summers, when the work was continued along the same
lines and in the same place. There were forty-eight campers in
1940 and fifty in 1941.