# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S125
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
by him to convention floor committees appointed by him in the
name of the convention .
(a) Appointments will be made from among the voting delegates (Bylaw 3 .1 .2ff), advisory delegates (Bylaw 3 .1 .3ff), and
advisory representatives (Bylaw 3 .1 .4ff) .
(b) Ordained ministers, commissioned ministers, and laypersons shall be represented on all committees .
(c) The President shall notify floor committee members of
their appointment and of the time and place of their first meeting no later than 16 12 weeks before the start of the convention .
(d) The committee rosters shall be published in an official
periodical at least 10 weeks before the convention .
(e) If the President deems it advisable, he may convene any
floor committees prior to the opening of the convention .
(f) After due consideration of the matters referred to it, each
floor committee will report its findings and recommendations to
the convention .
(g) Each proposed resolution involving expenditures, prior
to its consideration on the floor of the convention, shall be presented to the floor committee on financial matters, which in
consultation with the accounting department shall attach to the
recommended resolution accompanying information on estimated cost on an annual or project basis .

Pre-Convention Publications
3 .1 .8 A Convention Workbook containing a convention manual, reports and overtures, the names and mailing addresses of
all voting delegates, and other information shall be published
under the editorship of the Secretary subject to approval of the
President .
(a) The President shall also decide which of the matters accepted for presentation to and consideration by the convention
shall be published in the Convention Workbook .
(b) The content A copy of the Convention Workbook shall be
posted on the Synod’s Website sent not later than 12 10 weeks
prior to the opening date of the convention, with printed copies
mailed to each ordained and commissioned minister on the official rosters of the Synod, to each lay delegate and alternate,
all officers of the Synod, and to each lay members of boards,
and commissions, and councils of the Synod, and to all such
lay teachers and lay ministers as are designated by their district
presidents .
(c) Any member of the Synod (congregation, ordained minister, commissioned minister) and any lay delegate to the convention wishing to express comments on reports and overtures
appearing in the Convention Workbook may submit them in triplicate at least nine seven weeks prior to the convention to the
Secretary of the Synod, who shall transmit them to the appropriate convention floor committee for consideration .
3 .1 .8 .1 The content of the first issue of Today’s Business
containing the proposed resolutions of the convention floor
committees and other convention business shall be posted on
the Synod’s Website, with printed copies mailed sent to all registered delegates of the convention and all officers of the Synod
and members of boards, commissions, and councils and to each
congregation of the Synod .
(a) Responses to the proposed tentative resolutions contained in the first issue of Today’s Business shall be submitted

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to the chairman of the appropriate floor committee at least one
week prior to the convention .
(b) All floor committees shall meet at the convention site at
a time prior to the opening of the convention to review such responses and reconsider their proposed resolutions accordingly .

and be it further
Resolved, That the bylaws governing the work of the
Committee for Convention Nominations be amended as
follows:
Committee for Convention Nominations
3 .12 .3 The Committee for Convention Nominations is to be
regarded as an ad hoc convention committee, to which limitations on holding multiple offices do not apply .
3 .12 .3 .1 In preparation for a convention of the Synod, onehalf of the districts shall elect through their regular election procedures at the district convention one member to the Committee
for Convention Nominations and an alternate:
Atlantic
Nebraska
California-Nevada-Hawaii
North Wisconsin
Central Illinois
Northern Illinois
Florida-Georgia
Northwest
Indiana
Oklahoma
Iowa West
ELC
Minnesota South
South Dakota
Missouri
Southern
Wyoming
3 .12 .3 .2 In preparation for the following convention, the remaining districts shall elect in the same manner:
Eastern
New Jersey
English
North Dakota
Iowa East
Ohio
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
Michigan
South Wisconsin
Mid-South
Southeastern
Minnesota North
Pacific Southwest
Montana
Southern Illinois
New England
Texas
3 .12 .3 .3 One-half of the electing districts shall be designated by the Secretary of the Synod to elect a professional church
worker and the other half a layperson, with roles reversed every
six years .
3 .12 .3 .4 The Secretary of the Synod shall handle the preliminary work for the Committee for on Convention Nominations .
(a) He shall begin to solicit names of potential nominees
from officers, boards, commissions, and agencies of the Synod
and its districts at least 24 months prior to the convention .
(b) Approximately 24 months before a regular meeting
of the Synod in convention, he shall solicit from the program
boards and the synodwide corporate entity boards descriptions
of criteria for qualified candidates to serve on those boards .
(c) With such criteria in view, the Secretary shall issue the
first call for nominations through a publication of the Synod and
on the Synod Website 18 months before the convention, soliciting names from program boards and synodwide corporate entity boards, as well as congregations, district presidents, district
boards of directors, circuit counselors, and other likely sources .
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