# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S57
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

TASK FORCE

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criteria for its assigned programs. It shall report its
activities to the convention, the President, and the
Board of Directors.

e. The staff develops procedures, recommends
and reviews programs and ministries, manages pro-
grams, and recommends policy and program modi-
fications. It implements decisions of its respective
board in accordance with approved policy. It is
responsible to its respective board or commission and
also to the President of the Synod, who shall exercise
supervision in accordance with the Constitution and
Bylaws, resolutions of the Synod, and the decisions of
the respective board and of the Board of Directors.
Staff represents the board or commission and is
ordinarily the liaison between the board or com-
mission and the field. Each principal staff person
shall report on staff activities and recommendations
to his board or commission and, as requested.
to the President of the Synod. The Board of Directors
shall establish position titles.

1.37 Definitions

a. A program board is an officially established
group of elected persons charged with administrative
responsibility for a programmatic function of the
Synod. Its chairman (or its permanently appointed
representative) is a voting member of the Board of
Directors.

b. A support services board is an officially estab-
lished group of persons appointed by the Board of
Directors with the approval of the President and
charged with administrative responsibility for certain
support services assigned to it. Members are appoint-
ed in view of their special abilities and experience in
certain closely defined areas of competence.

c. A standing committee is a small group of spe-
cialists, appointed by the Board of Directors, a
program board, or a support services board, who
provide professional or technical assistance to a
board. With the approval of the President, or upon
instruction by the Board of Directors, a board may or
shall, as the case may be, delegate certain
responsibilities to such a committee while retaining
supervision. The size of each standing committee
shall be determined by the Board of Directors after
consultaton with the respective board.

d. A commission is a group of persons elected or
appointed as prescribed in the Bylaws, rendering a
precisely defined service function of the Synod and
responsible, as the case may be, to the convention, the
President of the Synod, or the Board of Directors.

e. A council consists of persons from various
administrative areas or agencies, with the primary
function of coordination.

f. A department is an operating unit which is
directly responsible to the Board of Directors.

g. A subcommittee consists of voting or advisory
members of a board or a commission who perform a
specific function and are in a reporting relationship
to the parent group. This may be either a standing
subcommittee or an ad hoc committee.

h. A task force is a group which has an ad hoc
assignment to accomplish a specific task, has a
definite expiration date, and does not necessarily
consist of members of the appointing body.

i. An agency of the Synod is an instrumentality
other than a congregation, whether or not separately
incorporated, which the Synod or its Board of Direc-
tors has caused to be formed to further the Synod’s
objectives and includes without limitation each
board, commission, seminary, college, and District,
as well as Concordia Publishing House, Concordia
Historical Institute, The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod Foundation, and Lutheran Church Extension
Fund—Missouri Synod. .