# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S 18
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Name of delegate ­­___________________________________________________________
Home address _____________________________________________________________
Convention address _________________________________________________________
For reporting errors in registration listings, see last page of this workbook.
For ongoing convention information, check www.lcms.org/convention.

Preface
This 2010 Convention Workbook comes to you in three volumes. (1) This volume contains a listing
of delegates and floor committees; reports from the Synod’s officers, boards, and commissions; overtures
submitted by congregations, district conventions and boards, official conferences, faculties, boards, and
commissions; the texts of Commission on Constitutional Matters opinions from the past triennium (plus a
few extra); and the reports, documents, and opinions produced by the Commission on Theology and Church
Relations since the 2007 convention. (2) The second smaller volume contains a report of the results of
the nominating ballot for President and vice-president elections and also the report of the Committee for
Convention Nominations of its slates of nominees for all other offices to be filled by election by the convention.
(3) The third volume is the report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synod Structure and Governance, certainly
one of the focal points of the coming convention.
The names of the more than twelve hundred voting delegates and several hundred advisory delegates
and representatives to the convention have been carefully processed according to the bylaws governing their
selection. From these names, the President of the Synod has appointed nine floor committees to facilitate
the business of the convention. Each of the dozens of reports and the hundreds of overtures submitted to the
convention has been assigned to one of these committees to review in preparation for the convention. From
these the floor committees will propose resolutions for convention action.
The overtures that have been submitted have been processed the following manner:
• Each was reviewed, its source validated as an entity entitled to submit business to the convention, and
grouped according to subject matter.
• In cases of identical or very similar overtures, the first to be received was processed and printed, and the
names of other entities submitting like overtures were listed immediately following.
• Some overtures that were submitted have not been published because they contained subject matter not
allowed by bylaw (Bylaw 3.1.6.2 [b] and [c]). Such overtures have been referred to the appropriate district
presidents.
• Overtures received after the March 6 deadline may be accepted for convention consideration and printed in
the first issue of Today’s Business if their content is adjudged to be of overriding importance and urgency
and not adequately covered by documents already before the convention.
• The first numeral of the number ascribed to each overture and report identifies the floor committee that will
be responsible for preparing a proposed action for convention consideration.
Member congregations, ordained and commissioned ministers, and lay delegates wishing to comment
regarding any reports or overtures in this Convention Workbook may do so by sending a signed letter (in
triplicate) to the Secretary of the Synod (1333 S. Kirkwood Road, St. Louis, MO 63122). Letters must be sent at
least seven weeks prior to the convention to allow time for forwarding to the appropriate floor committee for its
consideration.
May God bless our coming together for our Synod’s convention in Houston, Texas, that ours will be a good
and productive time together as “One People—Forgiven.”
Raymond L. Hartwig, Editor
[Note to delegates: Bring all three volumes of this Convention Workbook with you to the convention, as they
contain valuable resource material that will be referred to repeatedly during the course of the convention.]

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