# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S489
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

510 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

c. The Division of Synodical Services
Assigned to this division shall be:
1) Board for Support and Pensions
2) Board for Relief
3) Board for Public Relations
4) Lodge Information Bureau
5) Literature Board
6) Young People’s Literature Board
7) Radio Committee
8) Committee on Constitutional Matters
9) Committee on Church Architecture
10) Transportation Secretary
11) Director of Publicity and Missionary Education

12) Fiscal Office (Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant
Legacy Officer)

13) KFUO
14) Board of Directors Concordia Publishing House, which
shall be assigned to this division for advisory purposes
d. The Division of Higher Education
Assigned to this Division shall be:
1) The Board for Higher Education
2) Valparaiso Advisory Committee
. The Board for Home Missions in North and South America
8.27 Duties of Board (B. 2.a.)
Add following sentence to d:

“d. All District Mission Boards shall co-operate with the Board
for Home Missions.”

. Concordia Publishing House

11.03 The Board of Directors (B. 2. c. 15)

Add following sentence to e:

“3. It shall keep the Board of Directors of Synod informed by
means of regular financial and administrative reports.”

. Department of Public Relations

12.03 Functions and Duties (B.2.c. Note on (3))

Add following paragraph as e:

“e. 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.”

. 9.29 covers what is said in B. 2. e.

CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 511

2.93 Auditor (B. 2f)
Add following statement to last sentence of 2.93:
. as staff officer of the Board.”

2.97 Statistician and Chronicler (B. 2 f)

Add following statement to the first sentence of 2.97:
. to which Board he shall be responsible as staff officer of
the Board.”

_F. The Board of Directors of Synod

Change “2.71 Membership” to read “THREE pastors” instead
of “two pastors,” and “FIVE laymen” instead of “four
laymen.” . .. Insert as second-last sentence: “The four
Vice-Presidents of Synod shall be advisory members of
the Board.” (A)

. Add 2.81 as a completely new section to F. The Board of Direc-

tors of Synod:

281 Co-ordinating Synod’s ‘Work. (B. 1. abed)

a. The Board of Directors shall appoint from its membership
four committees to help co-ordinate the work of Synod:

1) Committee for the Division of Missions, composed of one ,

pastor, one layman, and one Vice-President;

2) Committee for the Division of Parish Education, composed
of one pastor, one layman, and one Vice-President;

3) Committee for the Division of Synodical Services, com-
posed of two laymen and one Vice-President;

4) Committee for the Division of Higher Education, com-
posed of one pastor, one layman, and one Vice-President:

b. The Committees of the Board of Directors for each Division

shall be the means of communication with the Board of

Directors for each Board and Committee in that Division.

(B. 3. 4ab. 5 abc.)

To this end the Committees of the Board of Directors shall:

1) meet regularly to consider all business that should come
before them; ;

2) prepare recommendations for their Division to the Board
of Directors;

3) keep the boards and committees in their Division in-
formed of the time and the place of their meetings.

4) ask the divisional boards and committees or grant them
opportunity to send representatives to the meetings of the
committees of the Board of Directors, when either the
Board of Directors’ committee or any divisional board

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