# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S 28
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Name of delegate ­­___________________________________________________________
Home address _____________________________________________________________
Convention address _________________________________________________________
For reporting errors in registration listings, see last page of this Convention Workbook.
For ongoing convention information, see www.lcms.org/convention.
Delegates must bring copies of all convention publications to all sessions of the convention.

Preface

If you are a repeat delegate to LCMS conventions, you may recognize a new look to this Convention
Workbook and its accompanying Biographical Synopses and Statements of Nominees booklet. Thanks to
the collaborative efforts of the LCMS President’s Office, Communications Department, and Secretary’s
Office, changes in format and layout should make your preparations for your attendance at this 66th Regular
Convention of our Synod a little easier.
The booklet Biographical Synopses and Statements of Nominees contains the information you will need
to prepare for the many elections that will take place at the convention. It is larger than in the past, due in part
to change of layout, which places all information regarding all candidates for a given election in one place for
ready reference. In addition, it contains a list of all nominees for all elections handled by the Committee for
Convention Nominations (referred to as the “pool”) for your use, should you wish to make a nomination from
the floor of the convention. And it contains a second list of those nominees submitted by congregations for
regional board positions (referred to as “outside the pool”) who have indicated a willingness to be considered
for Concordia University System positions. (For more information regarding these lists and their use, see the
Preface page to the Biographical booklet.)
This Convention Workbook has also undergone some change to make it more user friendly, primarily by
relocating and expanding its table of contents to provide easier reference to its primary content: reports and
overtures. Other than elections, these reports and overtures are the entirety of the business to come before the
convention. They will be addressed by one or more of the convention’s 18 floor committees, with proposed
resolutions that will be printed in the pre-convention and daily issues of Today’s Business.
The floor committees will be meeting in St. Louis over Memorial Day Weekend, May 27–30, 2016.
Between now and that weekend, any member of the Synod (congregation, commissioned minister, or ordained
minister) or any lay delegate may offer comment to any of the floor committees regarding the content of reports
and overtures by sending a signed letter to me at this address: Office of the Secretary, The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod; 1333 S. Kirkwood Road, St. Louis, MO 63122. Such letters must be sent at least nine weeks
prior to the convention (May 7, 2016) to allow time for forwarding to the chairman of the appropriate floor
committee.
May God bless our coming together for our Synod’s convention on July 9–14, 2016. May it be a good and
productive time for each of us and our Synod as we join our efforts to do the work of His Church upon whose
Rock it and our hope is built.
Secretary Raymond L. Hartwig, Editor