# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S207
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10. ECCLESIASTICAL SUPERVISION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
was held prior to installation as such, or in the case of an
initial call to foreign service, the Missouri District. if
approved by the president of that district after consultation
with the president of the district through which
membership is currently held and the Office of National
Mission or the Office of International Mission, as
appropriate.
2.12.1.5
An individual member of the Synod who isserving
in any other position servingan agency other than a district
and other than a missionary or chaplain serving under call
by the Synod shall hold membership through the district
designated by that person if approved by both the president
of that district and the president of the district in which the
agency is located, but shall be subject to the ecclesiastical
supervision of the president of the geographical district in
which the agencyplace of service is located. When all voting
members of the agency are members of, unless serving an
agency or mission of a non-geographical district, in which
case membership shall be held through that district.
2.12.1.6
An individual member of the Synod who is an
executive or professional staff member called or appointed
by an auxiliary or other recognized service organization
shall hold Synod membership in the geographical district in
which the member resides or the non-geographical district
in which he/she holds membership.
2.12.1.76 An emeritus member having candidate or emeritus
status shall continue to hold membership in the Synod
through the district through which membership was held
at the inception of emeritusthat status unless the president
of the district through which membership is held approves
a transfer:
(a) requested by the member and is approved by both
the president of that district and the president of the
district to which membership would be transferred. ; or
(b) requested by the president of a district within which
the member has come to reside or is involved in his or her
ministry.
2.12.1.8
An inactive member having candidate status shall
continue to hold membership in the Synod through the
district through which membership was held at the
inception of candidate status except when a transfer is
approved by both the president of that district and the
president of the district to which membership would be
transferred.
2.12.1.9
A member having restricted status while not
serving a congregation or other eligible calling body shall
continue to hold membership through the district through
which membership was held at the inception of restricted
status unless a transfer is approved by both the president of
that district and the president of the district to which
membership would be transferred.
2.12.1.107 A member having suspended status shall continue
to hold membership through the district through which
membership was held at the time of the suspension.
2.12.1.8
Service performed within the boundaries of any
geographical district is domestic. Service performed outside
the boundaries of every geographical district is foreign.

Resolutions

2.12.1.9
Amendments to Bylaw section 2.12 are to be applied
to members at the time of their next installation (whether
full- or part-time) or request for transfer.

and be it finally
Resolved, That Bylaws 2.10.3, 4.4.3, and 4.4.7 be amended
as follows, to further clarify matters of district membership
and ecclesiastical supervision:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
2.10.3
The president of the district of which the calling
congregation is a member or in which the eligible calling
agency or other calling body is located or with which it is
otherwise identified that will have supervision of the
worker (see Bylaw section 2.12) shall be responsible for the
rites of ordination and commissioning of candidates for the
ministry called to that congregation, agency, or other
calling body.
(a) The rite of ordination or commissioning should
normally take place in the presence of the congregation,
agency, or other calling body by which the candidate has
been called.
(b) In the case of missionaries called by the Synod,
members of a faculty of an institution of the Synod, or
non-foreign specialized ministers called by the Synod,
the rite shall take place in a setting approved by the
district president of the calling entity.
(c) If an unusual circumstance warrants it, as in the case
of missionaries and non-foreign specialized ministers,
the district president may authorize that the rite take
place in the home congregation of the candidate, or
another appropriate congregation, with the permission
of the calling congregation or other agency or calling
body.
(d) A service of celebration on the part of the candidate’s
home congregation is encouraged.
(e) The district president shall issue a diploma of
ordination or commissioning.
4.4.3
The district president of the calling congregation,
agency, or other calling body (e.g., in the case of corporateSynod-issued calls, the president of the Missouri District)
shall represent theThe Synod shall be represented, in
connection with all ordinations, commissionings, and
installations, by the president of the district that will have
supervision of the worker being ordained, commissioned,
or installed (see Bylaw section 2.12).
(a) An ordained or commissioned minister shall be
installed into each called position, whether for full- or
part-time service.
(b) Each installation shall be authorized by the
appropriate district president and conducted, in
accordance with forms and practices developed by the
Synod for that purpose, by the district president or by an
ordained minister designated by the district president.
(ac) First calls: Ordinations, commissionings, and
initial installations shall be conducted by or at the
direction of the district president when the The
requirements of Bylaw 2.10.2 (a) have been shall be

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