# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1986_S170
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RESOLUTIONS

B. CONSECRATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

7.21 Prerequisites for Consecration and
Installation

A candidate for one of the positions for which a con-
secrated lay worker is eligible may be consecrated and
installed in a specific position when the following pre-
requisites have been met:

1. The individual shall have satisfactorily completed
a course of study prescribed or approved by the Board
for Professional Education Services and have received
an appropriate degree, diploma, or certificate from a
synodical college.

2. The individual shall have given evidence of a read-
iness and desire to serve a congregation or other eligible
entity.

3. The individual shall have received endorsement
by the proper faculty as a consecrated lay worker.

4. The individual shall have received and accepted
an appointment from a congregation or other eligible
entity.

7.23 Responsibilities of District President

The district president shall be responsible for guid-
ing the congregation or other eligible entity as to the
consecration of candidates for any category of conse-
crated lay workers and their installation within his dis-
trict.

7.31 Supervisory Responsibility

The responsibility for supervision of consecrated lay
workers rests solely with the congregations and other
eligible entities which have employed them. The appro-
priate district president shall seek to advise a congre-
gation and other eligible entity as it exercises its
responsibility.

C. POSITION ASSISTANCE AND LISTING
7.41 Position Assistance

Assistance in securing positions for graduates from
approved consecrated lay worker programs shall be pro-
vided by the college placement officers. District presi-
dents, education executives, and other appropriate
district personnel shall assist the placement officers in
carrying out this function. Congregations and other el-
igible entities seeking to employ consecrated lay work-
ers are encouraged to contact the appropriate placement
officers of the colleges where the programs are housed.

7.43 Position Listing

When a congregation appoints a consecrated lay
worker, it is to report this action to the district presi-
dent. Those consecrated lay workers who wish to con-
tinue to be listed with the Synod as eligible consecrated
lay workers shall be responsible for providing the Sec-
retary of Synod with appropriate data for such listing.

Action: Adopted (11).

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H. To Retain Present Chapter 8, “Reconciliation,

Adjudication, and Appeal”

Action: None.

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I. To Renumber Present Chapter 7, “Resource
Development and Utilization,” as Chapter 9
Action: None.

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J. To Renumber Present Chapter 9, “Fraternal
Organizations,” as Chapter 10

Action: None.
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K. To Renumber Present Chapter 10, “Doctrinal
Review,” as Chapter 11

Action: None.
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L. To Renumber Present Chapter 11,
“Publications,” as Chapter 12

Action: None.

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M. To Renumber Present Chapter 12, “Interchurch
Relations,” as Chapter 13, with Revisions to Meet
New Situation

XIU. INTERCHURCH RELATIONS
A. National Inter-Lutheran Entities
13.01 Representation*

Representatives of the Synod to various national in-
ter-Lutheran entities in which the Synod in convention
or through the synodical Board of Directors has au-
thorized holding membership shall be named by the
President of the Synod on recommendation of the Coun-
cil of Administrators. These representatives shall par-
ticipate in the activities of the respective inter-Lutheran
entities according to the constitutions and bylaws of
those entities and in keeping with the theological and
constitutional principles of The Lutheran Church—Mis-
souri Synod. These representatives shal] submit formal
reports to the President and keep the Council of Ad-
ministrators informed of the activities of each such ent-

ity.

(*Note: 1983 Bylaw 12.01 will apply with reference
to the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., which is expected
to go out of existence on Jan. 1, 1988.)

13.02 Privileges

a. Ordained and commissioned ministers of the
Synod shall be entitled to be active members of the
Synod while serving a national inter-Lutheran entity of
which the Synod is a member.

b. Such entities will be eligible to be “employers”
under the various Worker Benefit Plans of the Synod,
unless the policies of such a plan preclude such orga-
nization as an eligible employer.

Action: Adopted (11).

(During consideration a motion to substitute “Commission on
Theology and Church Relations” for “Council of Administrators”
in Bylaw 13.01 was declined. The chairman declined a call for a
division of the house and was sustained in his decision by the
assembly.)

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N. To Renumber and Revise Former Chapter 13,
“Auxiliary and Listed Service Organizations,” as
Chapter 14, “Auxiliary and Other Recognized
Service Organizations”

XIV. AUXILIARY AND OTHER
RECOGNIZED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

14.01 Auxiliaries

a. Definition. An organization desiring to be recog”
nized as an auxiliary of the Synod may apply for that
status to the synodical convention, through the Board
of Directors, if it satisfies the following requirements:

1. It is national in scope and voluntary in member-

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