# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1989_S25
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION 25

Res. 5-01 was placed before the assembly: “To Enable
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Seminary and
College Faculty to Serve As Members of Boards and Com-
missions.” By common consent the word under was added
to line 24 between the words commissions and which.

The convention chairman called for the orders of the
day. Res. 5-01 will be discussed further the next time Com-
mittee 5 comes to the podium.

Announcement

Delegates were informed that voting pads would be val-
idated at 1:25 p.m. Sunday afternoon and that voting for
the Second through Fifth Vice-Presidents would occur at
2 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

Closing Devotions

The assembly was led in closing devotions by Dr. Arnold
G. Kuntz, convention chaplain.
President Bohlmann declared the convention in recess.

Session 3
Afternoon, July 9

Opening Devotion
The delegates were led in devotions by Chaplain Kuntz.

Election Committee

Dr. Alvin Kollmann led the delegates in validating their
voting pads.

Witness and Outreach (1)

The chairman of Committee 1, Rev. Dr. Wilbert J.
Sohns, set the stage for the resolutions of his committee
by reflecting upon the urgency of the mission and outreach
opportunities challenging our beloved Synod at this time.
Furthermore, on behalf of the committee, Dr. Sohns ex-
pressed words of appreciation to these leaders in mission
and outreach who are retiring from service, including Dr.
Edward Westcott, Dr. Erwin Kolb, and Dr. LeRoy Biesen-

thal. Dr. Sohns also noted that the Synod is in the midst
of two significant projects, the writing of a new statement
concerning our mission theology, and the formation of a
mission blueprint for the 1990s and beyond.

Dr. Sohns introduced Res. 1-01 (Today’s Business, p.
31). Two corrections were made: In line 13, “80%” was
changed to “67%.” In line 36, the words and Districts of
the Synod were deleted. The resolution was placed before
the assembly.

An amendment was proposed to delete the fourth last
resolve, beginning on line 50, and to substitute the third
and fourth resolves from Overture 1-10 from the Conven-
tion Workbook, page 151.

An amendment to the amendment was proposed to add
the words the highest immediately in front of the word
priority within the fourth resolve of Res. 1-01. The amend-
ment to the amendment was adopted.

The amended amendment was again placed before the
assembly. Following several moments of discussion, the
delegates voted to close debate on the proposed amend-
ment. The amendment was then placed before the dele-
gates and was adopted.

Elections

Committee 10 reported the nominations for Second
through Fifth Vice-Presidents as follows:

Robert King .......... 0... cece cece cee ce cence eeeeee 639
George Wollenburg ................. cece cence eee 597
Alvin Barry ............ cece cece ence e cece ence eeeeees 525
Eugene Bunkowske .................0c0ceceeeeeeees 391
Walter Maier, Jr. ........ bce e eee eeeeeeneeeneeeee 317
Guido Merkens ............ 0... cc cece ece cca ensneees 238
Robert Sauer 2.0.0.0... 0. ccc cece ccc c ence cee eeneees 224
Charles Mueller ................. 0c. c ccc c cece eeees 123
Robert Preus ......... 0... cece cece ence cece renenee 101
Robert Kuhn ............. 02. cece ccc cece eee nee e eens 92
Richard Hinz .............. cc csc cece cece ee eeeeeeee 67
Glenn O’Shoney ............ cece eee e eee eeceeeeneees 66

Arnold Kuntz .......0. 0.0.0 ccc ccc cece cece eee cateees 43