# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S487
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506

2. b.

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

. Committee for the Division of Synodical Services, com-

posed of two laymen and one vice-president.

. Committee for the Division of Higher Education, composed

of one pastor, one layman, and one vice-president.

. Assigned to the Division of Missions shall be:

1) Board for Missions in North and South America,
2) Board for Missions in Foreign Countries, 3) Church
Extension Board, 4) Board for Missions to the Deaf,
5) Board for Missions to the Blind, 6) Board for European
Affairs, 7) Armed Services Commission, 8) Student Serv.
ice Commission. ‘

All District Mission Boards shall co-operate with Synod’s
Board for Missions in North and South America.
Assigned to the Division of Parish Education shall be:
1) Board for Parish Education, 2) Board for Young People’s
Work, 3) Board for Visual Education.
Advisory relationship shall exist between this. Division
and 1) Lutheran Laymen’s League, 2) Lutheran Women’s
Missionary League, 3) Walther League.

The District Parish Education Board shall co-operate with
Synod’s Board for Parish Education. ,

All District Boards for Young People’s Work shall co-
operate with Synod’s Board for Young People’s Work.

. Assigned to the Division of Synodical Services shall be:

1) Board of Support, 2) Board for Relief, 3) Public Rela-
tions Department, 4) Social Welfare Committee, 5) Lodge
Information Bureau, 6) Literature Board, 7) Young People’s
Literature Board, 8) Radio Committee, 9) Committee on
Constitutional Matters, 10) Committee on Church Ar-
chitecture, 11) Transportation Secretary, 12) Director of
Publicity and Missionary Education, 13) Fiscal Office
(Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Legacy Officer),

-.14) KFUO, 15) Concordia Publishing House shall be as-

2. d.

signed to this Division for advisory purposes and shall keep
the Board of Directors informed by means of regular finan-
cial and administrative reports. ©

Note on (3): The Public Relations Department shall be
responsible to the President of Synod for policy and action
but related. to the Board of Directors of Synod in financial
and all other matters.

Assigned to the Division: of Higher Education shall be:
1) The Board for Higher Education, 2) Valparaiso Ad-
visory Committee.

. The Board of Trustees for Synodical Trust Funds shall be

directly responsible to the Board of Directors.

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4b.

5. b.

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 507

The Auditor and the Statistician shall be directly respon-
sible to the Board of Directors as staff officers of that
Board. ,
Each Board or Committee in a Division shall have contact
with the Board of Directors through the Board of Direc-
tors’ Committee for that Division.

. The Vice-Presidents shall be asked by the Board of Direc-

tors or through its committees to attend meetings of boards
and committees in the Divisions to which they have been
assigned once a year or oftener, as the need arises. The
Planning Counselor and the Comptroller shall attend meet-
ings of boards and committees of Synod upon request of
the Board of Directors, its committees, or of some divisional
board or committee, whenever in the opinion of any of
these boards such a need arises; and shall be ready to
serve the Board of Directors or its committees with data
desired, recommendations, etc.

Meetings of the subcommittees of the Board of Directors
shall be held regularly for the purpose of considering all
business and plans that should come before those com-_
mittees. They shall prepare recommendations for their
Division to be presented to the Board of Directors. The
subcommittees shall keep the boards and committees in
their Division informed of the time and place of their
meetings. They shall grant to these divisional boards op-
portunities to send a representative to such meetings of the
subcommittees, when either the subcommittee or any of
the divisional boards or committees consider it necessary
for, and in the interest of, the work of Synod in the Division
to which they have been assigned.

. The executive secretaries in each Division shall serve as

information sources for the committees of the Board of
Directors, and at the request of these subcommittees or
of the Board shall attend the meetings of the Board of
Directors.

In order that the respective committees of the Board of
Directors and the Planning Counselor of the Board of
Directors may be kept fully informed ofthe work of the
various boards and committees of Synod, every such board
and committee shall be expected to transmit to its respec-
tive committee of the Board of Directors and the Planning
Counselor of the Board of Directors a digest of the minutes
of each of its meetings and a copy of every important
proceeding, announcement, or report.