# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S193
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9. STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION
directors of parish music, deaconesses, parish assistants,
and certified lay ministers directors of church ministries.
2.11 Continued Eligibility of Individual Members
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Inactive Members
2.11.2
Inactive members are advisorymay be retained as
individual members of the Synod.
(a) As such, they have all the rights, privileges, and
responsibilities of advisory individual membership in
the Synod as defined in the Constitution and Bylaws of
the Synod.
(b) To remain on the roster of the Synod as an inactive
member, an ordained or commissioned minister of
religion must be a communicant member in good
standing of a congregation which is a member of the
Synod and must qualify and make application for one of
the following categories.
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3.1 National Conventions
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Voting Delegates
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3.1.2.1
Elections of voting delegates shall take place in
accordance with established policy and procedure.
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(d) All pastors called and installed to circuit
congregations who are not advisory members under
Article V B of the Constitution and not specific ministry
pastors shall be eligible for election.
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(e) Prior to the meeting of the electoral circuit, each
congregation may nominate one layperson (i.e., not a
commissioned or ordained minister), either from its
congregation or from the circuit. These names must be
submitted to the circuit visitor prior to the day of the
circuit meeting and shall constitute the slate of
candidates. All congregational nominees, except those
who have been eliminated through the election of the
pastoral delegate, shall be eligible for election.
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Nonvoting Advisory Delegates
3.1.3
Advisory members of the Synod shall attend
district conventions, but they shall not be elected by any
congregation or by any group of congregations as lay
delegates to a national convention of the Synod.The
advisory delegates of a district convention shall consist of
all individual members of the Synod within the district,
except those pastors representing member congregations
as voting delegates. In a convention of the Synod, advisory
members of the district (all commissioned ministers and
those ordained ministers not eligible for election as a voting
delegate under Bylaw 3.1.2.1 [d]) shall be represented as
follows:
Resolutions

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4.2 District Conventions
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4.2.3
All nonvoting ordained and commissioned
ministers who are members of the Synod within the district
shall serve as advisory delegates.
(a) They are entitled to voice and vote on a floor
committee, if appointed, and to voice in the convention.
(b) All advisory members delegates are expected to
attend all sessions of the convention
(c) Those advisory members delegates whose office in
the Synod, district, or other agency imposes professional
or service requirements on which full and regular
convention attendance makes undue demands, shall
nevertheless, in consultation with their supervisory
boards, arrange for their own partial or occasional
attendance and participation in accordance with policies
established by their supervisory boards.

Action: Adopted (4)
After discussion by the assembly, the chairman put closure of
debate to the assembly, which carried [Yes: 773; No: 154]. The
resolution was adopted by the required two-thirds majority [Yes:
873; No: 77], with ratification by the congregations of the Synod
to follow the convention.

To Add Bylaw 3.3.4.10
to Clarify Access by the Board of Directors
to Information of Synod Agencies
RESOLUTION 9-06
Overture 9-42 (CW, 516)

WHEREAS, The Board of Directors (BOD) of the Synod has
oversight responsibilities over all of the property of the
Synod under Constitution Article XI E; and
WHEREAS, It is necessary for the BOD to have accurate
and complete information when carrying out its
responsibilities to the Synod; and
WHEREAS, There have been circumstances in which the
BOD has faced challenges when attempting to obtain
accurate and complete information and this has hindered
the board’s efforts to carry out its responsibilities to the
Synod; and
WHEREAS, Entities for which the Synod BOD has
oversight are expected to comply with oversight requests
for information in a reasonable, prioritized, and prompt
manner; and
WHEREAS, The BOD desires to fulfill its responsibilities to
the Synod in an efficient, effective, and expeditious manner,
so that the overall coordination of the Synod affairs can be
accomplished, and so that the Synod in convention also is
fully informed of the Synod’s affairs and when taking action
in convention; therefore be it
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