# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1977_S164
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RESOLUTIONS

a reasonably comprehensive summary of the essays
accepted by these pastoral conferences shall be
submitted to a committee appointed by the District
President for examination and a report to the
convention.

4.113 Teachers Conferences

Each District of the Synod shall arrange con-
ferences for its teachers. The minutes and essays or a
reasonably comprehensive summary of the essays
accepted by these conferences shall be submitted to
the District convention in the same way as those of
pastoral conferences.

4.115 Joint Conferences

Each District shall encourage joint conferences of
pastors and teachers.

4.117 Smaller Conferences

Pastors and teachers are encouraged to organize
smaller conferences in addition to their regular
conferences and to meet for the purpose of discussing
doctrinal, professional, and practical matters.

4.119 Intersynodical Conferences

Intersynodical conferences for the study of
theology are desirable and are encouraged on a
regular basis.

4.121 Purposes of Conferences

The official conferences of pastors and teachers
shall be conducted for the spiritual and professional
growth of their members. Matters pertaining to
Christian doctrine and practice, to professional
problems, to the proper conduct in office, to private
study, to the welfare of the respective congregations
and schools, to the work of the District and of the
Synod, or to any other professional matter shall at
all times receive due and sympathetic attention. The
members of the conferences shall aim to cultivate
brotherly relationship, be mutually helpful in every
way possible, and encourage, instruct, and admonish
one another in a spirit of sincerity and Christian
love. Professional conferences have no synodical
administrative functions.

conference for its teachers. Each official conference
shall consist respectively of all clergymen and all
teachers on the District roster and shall meet, if
possible, in plenary sessions at least once each year
and may meet more frequently in major sections (not
more than four sections) whose geographical boun-
daries shall be established by the District in
convention. Also such major sectional meetings
shall be regarded as sessions of the official con-
ference.

b. All clergymen and teachers on the District
roster are expected to attend meetings of their official
conference or present a valid excuse.

c. The plenary and the sectional meetings of both
official conferences may adopt and submit overtures
to the District and synodical conventions.

d. Four weeks prior to the convention of the
District the minutes and essays or a reasonably
comprehensive summary of the essays accepted by
the pastoral conference and by the teachers con-
ference in plenary and sectional meetings shall be
submitted to a committee appointed by the District
President for examination and a report to the
convention.

4.113 Other Conferences

a. The official pastoral and official teachers
conferences shall be encouraged to meet also jointly
for the purpose of discussing doctrinal, professional,
and practical matters.

b. Pastors and teachers are encouraged to
organize smaller conferences in addition to their
official conferences.

c. Intersynodical conferences for the study of
theology are desirable and are encouraged on a
regular basis.

4.115 Purposes of Conferences
(Same as present 4.121)

Action: Adopted as amended (4).

(The committee had added another paragraph to 4.111,
but the convention removed it by amendment: “A represen-
tative from the office of the President of the Synod, together
with a member of the Synod’s programmatic staff, shall be in
attendance for at least one of the annual meetings.’’)