# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2004_S469
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES 469

To Require Full Disclosure of All Funding

from Schwan Foundation ....................085 215
To Direct Disclosure of Foundation Gifts .......... 215
To Avoid Any Conflict of Interest

of Elected Synodical Officials .................0. 215
To Direct Boards and Committees

to Operate “in the Sunshine” .................... 215
To Amend Bylaws

re Chief Administrative Officer Duties ............ 217
To Direct Establishment of Reversionary Interests

on College, University, and Seminary Properties .... 217
To Ensure Unity in the Synod re Property Matters ... 217
To Support Concordia Historical Institute .......... 218
To Develop Electronic LCMS Newsletter .......... 218

To Delegate Responsibility for Electronic Media,
LCMS Web Site, Editorial Services, and Church
Information Center to Board for Communication
SErvVic€S ©... cece ete e eens 218

To Encourage Church-Worker Support and Increase
Funding for Commission on Ministerial Growth

and Support 2.0.0... . 6. cece cece eee eee 219
To Delegate Responsibility for Radio Station KFUO
to Board for Communication Services ............. 219

To Contribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial .. 219
To Provide for Disclosure of Campaign Expenditures 220

5. Higher Education
To Change Membership Structure
of Concordia University System ...............-- 221
To Restructure Higher Education Governance
of Colleges/Universities/Seminaries .............. 221
To Restructure Governance of Higher Education .... 222
To Change Manner of Electing Boards of Regents
and Eliminate Concordia University System Board .. 223
To Restructure Colleges’ /Universities’
Boards of Regents .......... 00... 223
To Restructure Seminaries’ Boards of Regents ...... 224

To Include Qualifications for Laity on
BHE/CUS Board and Boards of Regents in Bylaws .. 224

To Revise Bylaw Requirements

for Deciding Future of Schools .................. 224
To Consolidate Concordia University System ....... 225
To Propose Study and Plan to Provide Regional
Pre-Seminary and Lutheran Teacher Training ....... 225
To Delete Bylaws re Financial Management

of Surplus Institutional Funds ..................5 225
To Commend Our Seminaries ................... 225

To Commend and Affirm Need for Two Seminaries . 226
To Require Parish Experience for Seminary Professors 226
To Require Pastoral Experience

for Seminary Professors ..............6-...-00005 226
To Emphasize Mission Focus and Leadership

Development in Pastoral Preparation.............. 226
To Establish Seminary at Concordia, Selma ........ 227
To Direct BHE to Restore Funding

for Hispanic Institute of Theology ................ 227

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To Clarify Vicarage Requirement ................ 227

To Overturn Council of Presidents’ Policy
re Seminarians’ Wives ............ 00000. eeeeee 228

To Encourage Seminaries to Affirm Role of Women . 228

To Direct Board for Higher Education to Provide Same
Standard for All Alternate Routes

Leading to Ordination ..................00 ee 228
To Encourage DELTO and TEE ................. 228
To Approve Redesigned DELTO Program ......... 229
To Continue to Expand DELTO Program .......... 229
To Reaffirm and Mandate Reconfigured

DELTO Program .......... 0.000 e eee e eee ee 229
To Strengthen and Expand Deacon

Training Programs in Synod’s Districts ............ 230
To Affirm District Lay-Ministry-Equipping Programs 230
To Make Use of New Lay Training Programs....... 231
To Support Continued Lay Ministry Training ....... 231
To Support “For the Sake of the Church”

and Concordia University System ................ 231

To Encourage Congregations and Women
te Ministers of Religion—Commissioned, Deaconess 231

To Place Directors of Family Life Education on Roster 232
To Identify and Roster Family Life Ministers ....... 232
To Amend Commissioned Ministry Colloquy Bylaws 232
To Revise Bylaw Requirements for Teacher Colloquy 234
To Increase Number of Synod-Certified Teachers ... 234

To Encourage Enrollment
in Lutheran Teacher Diploma Program ............ 235

To Equip Teachers Ineligible for Teacher Colloquy .. 235

To Provide Incentive to Encourage Completion
of Lutheran Teacher Diploma or Colloquy Programs . 336

To Emphasize Mission Focus
and Leadership Development
in Professional Church-Worker Preparation ........ 336

To Require Doctrinal Subscription
for All Faculty Members of Synodical Institutions ... 237

To Investigate Teaching of Evolution

in Synod’s Colleges ............ 00... eevee eee 237
To Survey Teaching of Creationism

in Concordia University System ................. 237
To Require Teaching of Doctrine

of Creation in Synod Schools ................... 237
To Clarify Role of “Teachers of Theology”

at Synod Colleges and Seminaries ................ 237
To Mandate College Theology Professors

Teaching Males Be Males .............-.....04. 238
To Affirm Lay and Non-Ordained Rostered Teachers

of Theology in LCMS Universities and Colleges .... 238
To Affirm Women as Teachers of Theology ........ 238
To Require Synodical College and University Presidents to
Be Male ...... 2... cece cece eee eee 238
To Affirm Order of Creation

on Seminary Boards of Regents .................. 239
To Revise Faculty Promotion Bylaw .............. 239

2004 Convention Workbook