# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1992_S153 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION 151 is to be placed shall be consulted, and his suggestions and recommendations shall be part of the final recom- mendation to the Board of Assignments. 127 Consecration and Initial Installation uisites A oni te 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: a. The individual shall have satisfactorily completed a course of study prescribed or approved by the Board for Higher Education Services and have received an ap- pro tate degree, diploma, or certificate from a synodical college. 6. The individual shall have given evidence of a readiness and desire to serve a congregation or other eligible entity. c. The individual shall have received endorsement by the proper faculty as a consecrated lay worker. - 4d. The individual shall have received and accepted an appointment from a congregation or other eligible entity. 2. Rites of Consecration and Installation The President of the District of which the appointing congregation is a member or in which the eligible ap- pointing entity is located or with which it is otherwise identified shall be responsible for the rite of consecration of candidates, The rite of consecration will take place in the presence of the congregation or other entity to which the candidate has been appointed. The District President shall issue a diploma of consecration. \ 3. Initial Installation i Acting under the authority provided in the Bylaws,. the District President shall be responsible for initial 'in- stallations of consecrated lay workers appointed to po- sitions with congregations which are members of his District or with other eligible calling bodies subject to his ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The rite of installation shall always take place in the presence of the appointing ation or other appointing body, except that in the cose of lay missionaries appointed by the Synod, mem- bers of a faculty of a synodical institution, or institu- tional church workers, the rite shall take place in a setting approved by the District President. 4. Forms and Practices - The rites of consecration and rites of installation should be in accordance with forms and practices de- veloped by the Synod for that purpose, and in all events the consecrated lay worker shall be solemnly pledged to the Scriptures as the inspired and inerrant Word of ' God and the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church asa true exposition of the Scriptures. C. ECCLESIASTICAL SUPERVISION 7.41 Supervision The consecrated lay worker sholl be under the eccle- Siastical supervision of the President of the District|in which he/she is serving. 7.43 Certified Church Workers, Lay, Listing Subject to the pravisions of the Constitution and By- laws, the District President shall be responsible for the initial placement of the names of all consecrated lay workers on the certified church workers, lay, listing|of the Synod and also for their removal. A consecrated lay worker accepting an appointment to a congregation ina sister District, ‘shall immediately report such decision|to histher District President and ask for a transfer. The District President shall forward such transfer to the President of the sister District. Upon receipt of the trans- fer and of a Request for Installation Form from the con- secrated lay worker, the District President of the sister District shall install or authorize installation of such consecrated lay worker. The District President shall be responsible for maintaining records of transfers into and out of his District. 7.45 Seeking Certified Church Workers, Lay, for Appointment 1. Congregations shall seek the advice of the respec- tive District President when appointing consecrated lay workers. 2. If congregations which are members of the Synod shall desire to appoint and be served by consecrated lay workers, they shall appoint and be served only by con- , secrated lay workers who have been admitted to these respective ministries in accordance with the rule and regulations set forth in these Bylaws. 3. Congregations which violate this requirement and persist in such violation shall, after due admonition, forfeit their membership in the Synod. { 4. Workers who violate the requirements for eligibility for listing as consecrated lay worker and persist in such violation shall, after due admonition, be removed from the listing of consecrated lay workers and shall no longer be eligible to serve in that capacity. ° 5. Notification of ineligibility for service shall be sent to the Council of Presidents; ‘and be it further 1 Resolved, That all those who meet the eligibility re- ‘quirements and who have been serving in this capacity be ‘recognized as Certified Church Workers, Lay. Action: Adopted (12). To Refer. Term Limitation to Board of Directors RESOLUTION 5-06 1 ‘Overtures 5-39-49, 8-34 (CW, pp. 248-60, 303-304) Wuereas, Floor Committee 5 carefully looked at the subject of term limitation for aynodical President and Vice- President; and Wuereas, There is wide divergence of opinion on the subject; and | Wuereas, This matter has been presented to several previous conventions; therefore be it Resolved, That this matter be referred to the Board of Directors (Council on Mission and Ministry, if adopted) of the Synod for study and report to the next synodical convention. | Action: Adopted (14). To Transfer Fountain of Life from English to Pacific Southwest District ' RESOLUTION 5-07 Overture 5-74 (CW, p. 263) I ' Resolved, That Fountain of Life Lutheran Church, Tuc- son, Ariz., at its request, be transferred from the English District to the Pacific Southwest District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Action: Adopted (11).