# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S223
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224 LATE REPORTS AND OVERTURES

and bylaws of the congregation and found them to be
acceptable and in agreement with the confessional
position of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod; and

WHEREAS, The congregation has passed a formal
resolution requesting membership in the LCMS; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Synod receive Trinity Lutheran
Church of Litchfield Park, Ariz., into membership.

Trinity Lutheran Church

Litchfield Park, Ariz.

Nathan K. Grefrath, Pastor

L5-09

To Receive Holy Trinity,
La Grange, Ky., and Good Shepherd
Kokomo, Ind., into Membership

WHEREAS, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of La
Grange, Ky., and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of
Kokomo, Ind., are newly organized congregations, and
have been properly incorporated; and

WHEREAS, The Constitution Committee of the
Indiana District has reviewed the constitution and the
bylaws of these congregations, and found them to be
acceptable and in agreement with the confessional
stance of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod; and

WHEREAS, These congregations have passed formal
resolutions requesting membership in The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod receive Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of La
Grange, Ky., and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of
Kokomo, Ind., into membership in the Synod.

Board of Directors

Indiana District

E. H. Zimmerman, President
D. W. Biester, Secretary

L5-10

To Receive Mountain View,
Apache Junction, Ariz., into Membership

WHEREAS, Mountain View Lutheran Church, Apache
Junction, Ariz., has requested membership in The
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod as a congregation
of the Southern California District; and

WHEREAS, The constitution of Mountain View Luther-
an Church has been reviewed by the Constitution
Committee of the Southern California District and
found acceptable; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod receive Mountain View Lutheran Church,
Apache Junction, Ariz., into membership.

Mountain View Lutheran Church
Apache Junction, Ariz.

Lucille F. Pyle, Secretary

Lorenz H. Spockman, Pastor

L5-26

To Adopt Bylaws Regarding Additional
Corporations Within the Synod

WHEREAS, A recent opinion and supplemental opin-
ion have been rendered by the Commission on Constitu-
tional Matters with respect to incorporating the church
extension fund of the Ohio District; and

WHEREAS, In its supplemental opinion the com-
mission found ‘‘uncertainties, possible contradictions,
conflicts, complexities, and definite lack of clarity,
together with the possibility of legal ramifications,”
and urgently suggested that the Synod’s Board of
Directors, operating under its duties (Constitution,
Article XI, F), submit to the Synod assembled in conven-
tion necessary Bylaw changes or other provisions to
provide guidance in this area; and

WHEREAS, The Synod’s Board for Church Extension
and the Board of Directors of Lutheran Church Exten-
sion Fund—Missouri Synod, the corporation created by
the 1979 convention of the Synod as an integral part of
the Synod which is subject to the Synod’s Constitution,
believe that all such uncertainties, contradictions, con-
flicts, complexities, and risk of legal ramifications
should be resolved in order that church extension work,
both at District level and nationally, can be advanced;
and

WHEREAS, The Board of Directors of the Synod
believes that the Synod in convention should address
these important issues; therefore be it

Resolved, That no District (including, but not limited
to, the Ohio District), no seminary or college, and no
other corporation at any time now or hereafter existing
as part of the Synod may establish or utilize another or
other corporations for the purpose of carrying on any
activity or activities which have been or might other-
wise be carried out by that District, seminary or college,
or other corporation of the Synod unless the Synod in
convention hereafter expressly authorizes such, or the
Synod’s Board of Directors, acting for the Synod be-
tween conventions, authorizes such; and be it further

Resolved, That such prohibition does not contravene
1979 Resolution 4-02 because such prohibition does not
serve to prevent a District from continuing to operate its
church extension fund as part of the District; and be it
further

Resolved, That any District (including, but not lim-
ited to, the Ohio District), seminary or college, or other
corporation at any time constituting a part of the Synod
which is permitted by the Synod in convention, or the
Board of Directors, to establish and utilize another
corporation (“new corporation’) for carrying out any
activity which has been or might otherwise be carried
out by such District, seminary or college, or other
corporation of the Synod, shall establish such only
according to the following procedures and subject to the
following conditions:

1. The proposed articles of incorporation and bylaws
of such new corporation must be submitted to the