# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S 27
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Reports

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To Condemn Transgender Ideology in All
Forms and Protect Children. .............................. 311
To Reconsider Woman Suffrage
in the Church...................................................... 311
To Reconsider Woman Suffrage
in the Church...................................................... 312
To Reconsider Woman Suffrage
in the Church...................................................... 312
To Address Use of Aborted Babies in Creating
Vaccines and Other Medications. ...................... 312
To Encourage Synod to Clarify Our Stance
on Fetal Tissues and Their Use Related to
Pharmaceutical Products.................................... 313
To Advocate for Religious Exemption and Against
Vaccine Mandates with Use of Vaccines Decided
as Matter of Individual Conscience. .................. 313
To Reconsider Allowing “Brain Death” Criteria
for Determination of Death at End of Life......... 314
To Commission Biblical Study of Lending
within the Church............................................... 314
To Recognize the Organization 1517 as
Heterodox Tract and Mission Society................ 316
To Distinguish Terms for Pastoral Office from
Those for Auxiliary or Helping Offices............. 316
To Affirm Use of “Deliver Us from
the Evil One”...................................................... 317
To Affirm Inspiration and Authority
of Mark 16:9–20................................................. 318

6. Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries
R1, R1.2, R1.2.2–R1.2.3,
R2.1, R5.2, R13–R13.2, R60

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To Affirm and Strengthen Set Apart to Serve
in Word and Action............................................ 321
To Pray Harvest Prayer (Luke 10:2).................. 321
To Affirm and Strengthen the Synod’s
Commitment to Well-Formed Clergy for
Sake of Gospel. .................................................. 322
To Affirm Residential Pastoral Education at Our
Seminaries.......................................................... 323
To Establish Task Force to Determine Additions
and Revisions for Training of Preachers within
the Synod............................................................ 323
To Strengthen and Expand Routes
to Ministry.......................................................... 324
To Create Plan to Address Near-Term Pastoral
Needs.................................................................. 325

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To Encourage and Support Existing Learning-InMinistry, Non-Residential, Distance Programs
Leading to Ordination. ....................................... 325
To Encourage and Expand Support for
Immigrant and Non-Anglo Pastoral Formation
through Learning in Ministry, Non-Residential,
Distance Programs that Lead to Ordination....... 326
To Encourage and Support Existing
Learning-In-Ministry, Non-Residential,
Distance Programs Leading to Ordination......... 326
To Increase Distance Education Opportunities
to Train General Ordained Ministers. ................ 327
To Explore Non-Residential Opportunities
for Pastoral Education........................................ 327
To Regularize Specific Ministry Pastoral
Classification...................................................... 327
To Encourage Further Consideration of
Successful Completion of Specific Ministry
Pastor Coursework before Ordination and
Placement on Ordained Roster........................... 328
To Establish Specific Ministry Pastor Program
Oversight Board and to Revise Bylaws
Governing Program............................................ 328
To Restore Original Intention of Specific
Ministry Pastor Program. ................................... 329
To Call for Re-evaluation of Specific Ministry
Pastor Program................................................... 331
To Support the Synod’s Specific Ministry
Pastor Program................................................... 331
To Support the Synod’s Specific Ministry
Pastor Program................................................... 331
To Affirm Appropriate Standards for Specific
Ministry Pastor (SMP) Program. ....................... 332
To Regularize Specific Ministry Pastoral
Formation........................................................... 332
To Increase Number of Students Preparing for
General Ordination by Expanding Work of
Cross-Cultural Ministry Center.......................... 333
To Increase Number of Students Preparing
for General Ordination through Distance
Learning Opportunities and by Expanding
Work of Cross-Cultural Ministry Center. .......... 333
To Restore Both Biblical Languages to the
Education of Future Pastors on All Pathways
to the Office of the Holy Ministry. .................... 334
To Create Third Pathway for General Pastoral
Colloquy for Members of Synod Congregations
Who Have Graduated with Accredited Masters of
Divinity Degree from Non-Synod Seminary. .... 334
2023 Convention Workbook