# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1962_S131
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130 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 6

may be impractical in such Districts as have established
or may hereafter establish full-time District presiden-
cies and regional vice-presidencies; and

Wuereas, The Constitution of the Synod provides
(Article XII, 5) that the election and time of service of
the District officers shall be determined by the Bylaws;
therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 3.21 be amended to read as
follows: .

a. A District President and two or more Vice-Presi-
dents shall be elected by every District of the Synod.
A majority of votes shall be required for election.

b. Each District may adopt regulations for the nom-
ination and election of its President, the nomination,
election, and ranking of its Vice-Presidents, the succes-
sion in case of vacancies, and the filling of vacancies.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

To Grant Missionaries in Foreign Countries
Representation at Conventions

RESOLUTION 6-30
Unprinted Memorial 645

Wuereas, Missionaries in foreign mission fields,
though members of the Synod, seldom have an oppor-
tunity to serve as delegates to a synodical convention;
and

Wuereas, Missionaries have requested that mission-
aries on furlough may be recognized as delegates;
therefore be it

Resolved, That mission areas, as defined by the
Board for World Missions, be granted the privilege of
electing one of their group on furlough for each ten of
their male missionaries or major fraction thereof, to
serve as advisory delegate to the convention of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, with the under-
standing that each area be entitled to representation by
at least one advisory delegate; and be it further

Resolved, That synodical Handbook section 1.59 be
amended to make provision for such representation.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Election of First Vice-President
RESOLUTION 6-31
Report 602 Il, B, 2, p. 240, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The office of First Vice-President of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod is a full-time posi-
tion, the election to which should be apart from the elec-
tion of the other Vice-Presidents; therefore be it

Resolved, That section 2.134, “Election of First Vice-
President,” be inserted in the Bylaws to read as follows:

The First Vice-President of the Synod shall be nom-
inated and elected in the same manner as the President
of the Synod after the President has been elected.

and be it further

Resolved, That section 2.135 be amended to read as
follows:

The primary election for the nomination of the re-
maining Vice-Presidents shall be held after the President
and the First Vice-President have been elected.

and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Constitutional
Matters be instructed to reword section 2.137 to reflect
the above changes with reference to the election and
ranking of the remaining Vice-Presidents.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Term of Office
RESOLUTION 6-32

Report 602, II, B, 7, and Memorials 629, 630,
pp. 244, 281, 282, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, It has been the established principle of the
Synod that all elective offices have been for specified
terms without limitation as to reelection; and

Wuergas, Sufficient cause for limiting the tenure of
office has not been established; therefore be it

Resolved, That Memorials 629 and 630 and the rec-
ommendation of the Survey Commission on page 244
of Reports and Memorials titled “Term of Office,” para-
graphs 3—7, be declined.

Action: This resolution was lost.
Note: See resolution 6-39

Ordination and Commissioning of Military
Chaplains
RESOLUTION 6-33
Memorial 624, p. 281, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The military authorities require that the
Armed Services Commission solicits and processes ap-
plications for appointments as military chaplains; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That Section 8.155 of the synodical Bylaws
be amended to read as follows:

The Commission shall -—

a. solicit and process applications for appointments as
military chaplains and request the President of the Dis-
trict in which the chaplain resides to issue the order for
the ordination and commissioning or commissioning of
such chaplains;

b. give counsel to chaplains;

c. insist on regular monthly reports to the commission
from chaplains on active duty;

d. withdraw ecclesiastical endorsement from such
chaplains as depart from the accepted Scriptural teach-
ings and practices of our church body or persist in an
ungodly life or when such withdrawal is demanded for
the good of the services;

e. provide financial support for a reasonable length
of time for chaplains who have been honorably dis-
charged from the service.

Action: This resolution was adopted.