# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S562
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

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Other Concerns

To Participate in Ecumenical Meetings with
Devotions . 199
(Also 3-276)

To Avoid Dissension on Fellowship Issue —— -— 199

Later Additions
To Encourage Fellowship 199
To Consider Membership in LWF —--————- 200
4. Synodical Administration

The President’s Report — 201
Report of First Vice-President _ 201
Report of the Synod’s Board of Directors _——--— 201
Report of Executive Director —_-_--_-_--—— 207
Report of Synodical Services Commission —_—_—- 210
Report of Department of Research and Statistics 211
To Return to Triennial Synodical Conventions — 212
To Charge for Filing or Printing Overtures —-— 212
To Elect Committee on Review of Convention
Resolutions - 212
To Elect Advisory Committee to Assist President

in Supervision of Doctrine and Practice ____--._ 213
To Exhort District Presidents to Exercise Proper
Supervision 214
To Implement Autonomy for Lutheran Church —
Canada 215
To Make Board for Higher Education an Elec-
tive Board 215
To Increase Membership of Stewardship Board 215
To Revise Regulations for Commission for Ser-
vices to the Mentally Retarded _____.-__---. 216
To Retain Separate Identity of Commission for
Services to the Mentally Retarded ___-— 216
(Also 4-17 to 4-19)

To Stress Advisory Function of Council of Presi-
dents - __. 217
To Reduce All Synodical and District Boards to
Maximum of 9 Members _-. 217
To Reinstate in Budget Administrative Expenses

for World Relief . _. 217
To Refine Procedure of Fiscal Review Commis-
sion _ _.__.— 218
To Provide Semester of Study for 20-Year Pas-
tors . 218
To Send Workbook and Proceedings to All Lay
Members of Boards and Commissions After Their
Election _ 218
To Initiate Unified Mailing 218
To Recognize Part-Time Ministries —~-————_—-— 218
To Develop Funding Process for Programs to
Meet National Crisis _ 220
To Study Certain Questions of Organization — - 220
To Recess and to Reconvene for 3-Day Session 220
To Set Mass Communications Priorities ____-_- 221
To Give Representation to Minorities ——__-—._ 221
Report of Special Committee for Review of the
Synod’s Editorial and Periodical Policies ._—-— 221

5. Constitutional Matters

Report of Commission on Constitutional Matters 225
Report of Special Overtures Committee —___--—_ 227
To Amend Constitution to Provide for Congrega-
tional Referendum on Establishment of Fellow-
ship 229
To Amend Bylaws to Permit Referendum 229

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To Incorporate in Handbook Specific Statement
Requiring Pastors of Congregations to Be Mem-
bers of the Synod 229
To Study Convention Representation —___——_ 230
To Restudy Principles of Representation at Con-
ventions 230
To Give Advisory Delegates Voting Representa-
tion 231
To Permit Laymen to Serve as Advisory Dele-
gates _ 231
To Revise Procedures for Electing Delegates —— 231
To Change Method of Selecting Delegates 232
To Reconsider Procedure for Electing Delegates 232
To Revise System of Electing Delegates to Syn-
odical Conventions — 233
To Have District Presidents and Counselors De-
termine Method of Electing Delegates 233
To Change Procedure for Election of Delegates
to Synodical Conventions 233
To Seek Ways of Extending Franchise to Cam-
pus Worship Communities _ 234
To Experiment with Representation at District
Conventions - 234
To Permit Laymen to Present Overtures 235
To Permit Individual Laymen to Petition _——.- 235
To Give Individual Laymen Right to Present
Overtures —- - 235
To Rescind Action Regarding Overtures from
Laymen . - 235
(Also 5-22)
To Change Method of Appointing Convention
Committees and Processing Overtures ____ ---— 236
(Also 5-24)
To Require Majority Vote in All Elections ——-.. - 236
To Provide for Election of All Officials by Ma-
jority Vote — _ 237
To Require Election of Some Younger Persons 237
To Revise Bylaws Governing Board for Conven-
tion Nominations i 237
To Revise 5.65. Board of Appeals —__-_—_-—-— 239
To Examine Synodical Constitution and District
Bylaws in Light of Mission Affirmations — 239
To Revise Congregational Constitutions ___—_ 240
To Require Annual Subscription to Constitution
and Installation Pledge 240
To Divide the Synod into Two Bodies —____--__- 241
(Also 5-34)
To Move Toward Discontinuation of English
District _ 242
To Divide Present Atlantic District into Atlantic
District, New England District. and New Jersey
District - 242
To Form a New Jersey District 242
To Consider Division of Atlantic District with
Utmost Caution 242
To Retain Present Atlantic District ———_-__--— 243
To Realign Northern and Southern Nebraska
Districts . 243
To Combine Northern and Southern Nebraska
Districts and Form a Wyoming District —— 243
To Study Feasibility of New District in South-
west 243
To Establish Boundary Line of Ohio District in
Kentucky 244