# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S229
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OMNIBUS RESOLUTIONS
Responsibility Assigned to Others
OMNIBUS RESOLUTION A
WHEREAS, Certain overtures submitted to the convention for consideration request action for which the responsibility has
been previously delegated to a board, office, individual, or commission; therefore be it
Resolved, That the following overtures be referred to the appropriate board, office, individual, or commission indicated
below:
Overture

Title

Board, Office, Individual, Commission

Ov. 1-07

To Promote Awareness of and Provide Educational Resources for
Specialized Pastoral Ministry

Board for National Mission

Ov. 1-08

To Request that the LCMS Provide Assistance to Workers Crossing the Council of Presidents
Canada/United States Border to Serve

Ov. 1-10

To Limit Mission Fundraising during Advent and Lent

Chief Mission Officer

Ov. L2-14

To Encourage Joint Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and Lutheran
Church—Canada Outreach to Immigrants and People of Quebec

Church Relations,
Office of International Mission

Ov. 3-06

To Direct the CTCR to Prepare an Addendum to the Study, Immigrants
Among Us

Commission on Theology
and Church Relations

Ov. 4-12

To Reaffirm Formula of Concord Article X and the Freedom to Practice Commission on Theology and Church
Relations, Council of Presidents, President
Certain Church Ceremonies
of Synod

Ov. 4-17

To Care for the Members of the Body of Christ Through Fraternal
Communication

Council of Presidents

Ov. 4-18

To Publish Recommended Steps in, and to Study, Orderly Transfers

Council of Presidents

Ov. 4-21

To Uphold the Pastoral Office in the Electronic Age

Commission on Theology and Church
Relations, Council of Presidents

Ov. 4-22

To Study How to Amend the Practice of Issuing Calls to Positions Not
in the Direct Service of the Proclamation of the Gospel and the
Administration of the Sacraments

President of Synod, Board of Directors,
Council of Presidents

Ov. 4-23

To Provide Clergy for Word and Sacrament Ministry by Designating
Synod Positions to Be Filled with Qualified Laity

President of Synod, Board of Directors,
Council of Presidents

Ov. 4-25

To Adjust Benefits of the Concordia Retirement Plan to Reflect an
Annual Cost of Living Increase

Board of Trustees/Directors—Concordia
Plans / Concordia Plan Services

Ov. 4-28

To Improve the Clarity of Written Communication

LCMS Communications,
Concordia Publishing House

Ov. 5-05

To Revise Paragraph 3(a) of the Operating Agreement Between the
Lutheran Church—Canada and The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod

LCMS Board of Directors,
President of Synod

Ov. 5-09

To Embrace Our Ecumenical Duty

Commission on Theology
and Church Relations

Omnibus Resolutions

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