# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2007_S426
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

426

43)

4.32

5-01
5-02

5-03

5-04

5-05

5-06

5-07

5-08

5-09

5-10

5-11

5-12

5-13

5-14

5-15

5-16

5-17

3-18

5-19

5-20

5-21

5-22
5-23

5-24

LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

To Give Thanks and Praise to God for LCMS
Foundation’s 50 Years of Service ................05.
To Amend Bylaw 3.8.2.5.5 (i)(2) re Financial
Management .......... 0. cece cece eee eee tenes
To Amend Bylaws 3.8.3.6.4 (e)(2) re Financial
Management ............ 0.00. e cee cece eens
To Encourage Corporate America to Reduce

CEO Compensation .......... 0.0.0 cece eee eee ees
To Mandate Bylaw Compliance in Communication
PracticeS ...... cece cee eee
To Change Appointment Process for Director

of News and Information Services ...................
To Allow Pastors to Serve as District Treasurer ........

5. Seminary and University Education

To Establish Specific Ministry Pastor Program.........
To Support Specific Ministry Pastor Program

and Similar Programs ............. 06.00. e eee eee
To Approve Proposal to Implement a Specialized
Ministry Program ........ 6. 6c cece cece eee eee ees
To Establish Specific Ministry Pastor Commission

to Combine and Oversee to Alternate Routes to

Pastoral Ministry ........... 0... eee eee eee
To Expand DELTO Program .............. 000000005
To Expand DELTO
To Use Distance Education to Increase

the Number of Pastors ............0 0.00 c eee e eee eee
To Place DELTO Oversight Committee under Board

for Pastoral Education .......... 2.0... e eee eee eee
To Discontinue Nonresidential Tracks

toward Ordination ....... 2.0.0... cee ee eee

To Decline Proposals That Lack Existing Requirements
for Preparation of Pastors.............0 000020 ee eee
To Develop Partnership with Districts

for Training Programs .............. 0c cess eee aee
To Explore Pastoral Ministry Options

and Opportunities .............0.. 00... eee eee eee.
To Study Health Insurance Coverage for Seminary
Students .... 0. eee eee ee eee

To Change CUS Membership Structure ..............
To Amend Bylaws re Board Member Qualifications ....
To Clarify Responsibility of Board for Pastoral

Education re Recognized Service Organizations ........
To Strengthen Seminary Boards of Regents .......... .
To Retain Nine-Member Seminary Boards of Regents . . .
To Retain Present Numerical Strength

for Seminary Boards .......... 0.0.00 s eee c cece eee
To Expand College and University Boards of Regents ...
To Amend Bylaw 3.8.3.7.2 re Election

of College/University Presidents ....................
To Require That College and University Residents

Be Male ........ 0... . cece cece eee ee eee
To Require That Theology Professors Teaching

Males Be Male .......... 0.0.06 e cece cece eee eee
To Remove Ambiguous Phrase

from Bylaw 3.8.2.7.3 (b) 2.0... cee eee eee
To Remove Ambiguous Phrase

from Bylaw 3.8.3.783 (b) 2.0.2.0... ee ee eee eee
To Clarify Bylaw 3.8.2.7.2 re Faculty Promotions ......

2007 Convention Workbook

5-29
5-30

5-31

5-32
5-33

5-34

5-35

5-36

5-37
5-38

6-01
6-02

6-03
6-04

6-05

6-06

7-01

7-02
7-03
7-04
7-05
7-06
7-07

7-08

7-09.

7-10
7-11
7-12
7-13
7-14
7-15
7-16

7-17

7-18
7-19

7-20

To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.8.2 re Promotion of the Faculty ....
To Remove Policies of Synod from Faculty

Subscription Requirement ......... 0.0... e eae
To Direct Synod President to Publish Report re Teaching
of Evolution in Synod Educational Institutions .........
To Survey Concordias re Teaching of Creationism .....
To Conduct Study re Teaching of Six-Day Creation

in Synod Higher Education Schools
To Place Candidate Status Pastors Along with Seminary
Graduates . 0.0... 0. cece teen ee

To Encourage Commitment to Continuing Education

for Clergy... 0.0... cece cece cece eee nee
To Promote Continuing Education
To Restore Sacrament to Alumni Gatherings ..........
To Offer Guidelines for Conferring Honorary Degrees
and Awards

6. Human Care

To Receive Thanks for Katrina Care and Support .......
To Assist Congregations to Respond to Undocumented
Immigrants 2.20... eee ee nee
To State LCMS Position on Stem Cell Research........
To Adopt and Honor Policy re Not Placing Children

in Homosexual Contexts ..........2.0.00ce eee eens
To Encourage Ministry to Armed Forces Personnel

and Families .. 0... 0.0... ec eee eee eae
To Encourage Professional Church Worker Sabbatical
Guidelines

7. Planning and Administration

To Revise Bylaw Section 1.5, Add Definitions

to Handbook, and Provide Board Member

Removal Process .......-.. 2.2... cece eee eee e eee
To Amend the Conflict of Interest Bylaw .............
To Amend Bylaw 2.11.2.1 re Emeritus Members .......
To Amend Bylaw 22.11.1 (k) re Roster Eligibility
To Amend Bylaws 1.9 and 3.9.3 Pertaining

to the Doctrinal Review Process .................04.
To Reaffirm Historic System of Convention
Representation ........ 0... eee cece cee eee
To Decline Task Force Recommendation re Synod
Legislative Representation System ...............-.-

To Establish New Process for Delegate Representation ... .
To Broaden Representation at Conventions ...........
To Allow Commissioned Ministers to Serve as Voting

Delegates .... 0.0... 6. cece teen
To Study Voting Delegate Representation

To Amend Bylaw 3.1.2 re Delegate Representation .....

To Address Circuit Exceptions ...............-00000-
To Address Voting Delegate Representation

Exceptions «1.0.0... 0 6. ccc eee ce ee ee eee
To Encourage Districts to Regularly Examine Circuit
Realignment ... 22... 00.0.0 c cece cece eee ees
To Revise Process for Voting Representation at National
Synod Conventions .......... 00.00 e cece eee eens
To Amend Bylaws to Restrict Number of Delegate
Exceptions ........ 0... cece eee cece eee eens
To Limit Number of Delegate Exceptions .............
To Revise Bylaw re Exceptions for Voting
Representation at National Conventions ..............
To Eliminate Delegate Representation Exceptions ......