# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S294
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292 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE

8-16

To Remove Reference to Council on Mission
and Ministry from Bylaws

Rationale

The Council on Mission and Ministry, of which the synodical
Board of Directors is a part, has asked the Board to submit an over-
ture ta the 1998 synodical convention requesting that reference to
the Council be removed from the Bylaws. The Council is unable
to carry out the assigned functions in the present Bylaws. These
functions tend to duplicate the assigned responsibilities of the syn-
odical 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 con-
curs that provision should be made in the Board’s Policy Manual
for issue oriented forums meeting on a semiannual basis with at-
tendance to be determined by the issue.

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

1. influence the triennial “Vision” of the President;

2. create a climate for service to, for, and by congregations,
agencies, auxiliaries, and special ministries in which the vision will
spread and be converted to action;

3. define cooperative and coordinated “desired outcomes” from
the vision with particular emphasis on the congregations;

4. serve as an avenue for receiving research and other informa-
tion and discussing issues confronting the church and society,
bringing before specific boards recommendations in relation
thereto, and receiving from such boards their responses toward ful-
filling the “vision” and “desired outcomes.”

Board of Directors
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

9, REGISTRATION, CREDENTIALS, AND ELECTIONS

10. NOMINATIONS

(The Workbook section on nominations is included in a separate addendum to this volume.)