# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S170
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

170

RESOLUTIONS

duplicate the assigned responsibilities of the synodical
Board of Directors and other corporations and boards.
Therefore, the Council has functioned in this past triennium as a forum to consider issues which will help the
Synod move forward in mission and ministry. It has recommended and the Board concurs that provision should be
made in the Board’s Policy Manual for issue-oriented forums meeting on a semiannual basis with attendance to be
determined by the issue; therefore be it
Resolved, That the convention delete Bylaw 3.940, Council on Mission and Ministry; and be it further

Resolved, The synodical Board of Directors make provision in its Policy Manual for the President and the Board of
Directors to convene, generally on a semiannual basis, forums to serve as an avenue for receiving research and other
information and discussing issues confronting the church
and society, bringing before specific boards recommendations in relation thereto, and receiving from such boards
their responses toward fulfilling the objectives of the Synod
as stated in Art. III of the Constitution.
Action: Adopted (7)