# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S31
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

For Fourth Vice-President
Benjamin T. (Ben) Ball
Christopher S. Esget
Nabil S. Nour

116
282
581

(elected)

305
676

(elected)

For Fifth Vice-President
Benjamin T. (Ben) Ball
Christopher S. Esget
For Sixth Vice-President
Benjamin T. (Ben) Ball

(elected)

Committee 14: Convention Nominations – Floor Nominations
for Secretary and Synod Board of Directors
President Harrison called to the podium the chairman of
the Committee for Convention Nominations, the Rev.
Benjamin Ball, to present the slates for election of Secretary
and Board of Directors and to receive floor nominations for
these positions. Chairman Ball introduced the members of
his committee in attendance and called attention to the slate
of candidates for Secretary, as determined by the committee.
President Harrison opened the floor for nominations, none
of which were offered. The chair declared nominations for
these positions closed.
Chairman Ball next called attention to the slate for Board
of Directors and President Harrison opened the floor for
nominations. It was moved and adopted [Yes: 656; No: 185]
to add Jan W. Lohmeyer (Waveland, MS, Texas District) to
the slate for Board of Directors, At-Large Commissioned
Member.
It was moved to add Korey D. Maas to the slate for Board
of Directors, At-Large Lay Member; as Rev. Maas is ordained,
this was impossible. It was moved to add Steven J. Buuck,
who is already on the ballot for At-Large Commissioned, and

then Linda Stoterau, likewise already on the ballot for AtLarge Layperson. Interest in floor nominations for these
offices having been exhausted, the chair declared
nominations closed.
Recognition of 125 Years of International Mission Efforts: Latin
America and Caribbean Region
Assuming the chair, Sixth Vice-President Christopher
Esget introduced the Rev. Ted Krey to speak of the Synod’s
nearly five generations of work in the Latin America and
Caribbean Region and to play a video featuring the Rev. Joel
Fritsche, LCMS missionary to the Dominican Republic—a
regional, residential formation site for pastors, evangelists,
and deaconesses. He spoke of long-term work in church
planting in Brazil, and its fruit in our daughter church’s own
foreign missions; also of the work of deaconesses in the
region and the preciousness of seminaries to the mission of
carrying the good news “in jars of clay” to every corner of the
region and the globe. He thanked the Synod’s membership
“in Jesus’ name for your support of your missionaries,” and
therefore of those who are “Joy:fully Lutheran” because of
their work.
Committee 2: International Witness
Chairman Esget introduced Committee 2 Chairman Peter
Lange, who in turn called upon Vice-Chairman Roger
Schlechte, President of the Rocky Mountain District, to
introduce Res. 2-03, “To Give Thanks to God for the Work of
the Office of International Mission in the Latin American and
Caribbean Region” (TB, 1:55–56). Having been read and
introduced by the committee, the resolution was adopted
without discussion, [Yes: 787; No: 12].
Omnibus Resolution A
With President Harrison resuming the chair, Omnibus
Resolution A, as presented in Today’s Business, 2B:249–50,
was introduced, with the further correction that Overture 616 be referred to the Council of Presidents, and modification
that Overture 6-17, “To Improve a System for the Placement
of Members on Candidate Status,” also be added and
referred likewise to the Council of Presidents. The resolution
was moved and seconded. Floor Committee 7 also asked that
Omnibus Resolution A be modified to remove Ov. 7-21, “To
Resolve the Issues at Concordia University, Portland.” This
was done without objection. It was moved and seconded to
close debate, a motion that carried by show of hands.
Omnibus Resolution A was adopted as amended [Yes: 771;
No: 91].
Committee 6: Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries

Committee 13 Chairman Scott Sailer
Minutes

President Harrison called Wyoming District President
John Hill and his Committee 6 to the platform, and the
assembly viewed a video expressing the joy of church
workers being sent and being received. Following
introductory remarks noting our greatest, gospel treasures
of “Word and Sacraments” delivered to us by pastors, and
the precious work of other church workers, on account of
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