# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S37 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Eldon Meyer Joseph L. Olson Tom Raabe Nikki P. Rochester Karol Selle Charles H. Wolfmueller 49 36 29 118 30 41 Stephen F. Eggold Charles F. Wildauer Angela Hill Eldon Meyer Joseph L. Olson Tom Raabe Nikki P. Rochester Karol Selle Charles H. Wolfmueller 478 (declared elected) 93 65 28 186 17 49 Eldon Meyer Joseph L. Olson Tom Raabe Nikki P. Rochester Karol Selle Charles H. Wolfmueller 132 247 488 (declared elected) 43 349 452 27 135 380 596 (declared elected) 318 327 Laypersons (elect 2) Lutheran Church Extension Fund Board of Directors Minister of Religion—Ordained or —Commissioned Mark K. DeYoung Noreen L. Linke Kristi A. Matus Janis Boeker Stayton 312 339 231 45 273 459 192 315 627 (declared elected) Mark K. DeYoung Kristi A. Matus Janis Boeker Stayton 508 (declared elected) 388 49 Board of Regents–Concordia College—New York Minister of Religion—Ordained David S. Belasic Jon T. Diefenthaler Dale W. Kaster 188 426 572 (declared elected) 347 370 Minister of Religion—Commissioned Mary E. Hilgendorf Jonathan C. Laabs 487 (declared elected) 445 Laypersons (elect 2) 447 602 (declared elected) 229 319 225 Alice M. Bruening Heidi J. Fields James T. Jahnke Mary Manz Simon 147 414 588 (declared elected) 189 181 157 140 Linda K. Barnes Susan J. Elsholz Gregory J. Miller Richard T. Peltier David E. Wuenscher 188 172 449 577 (declared elected) 66 148 173 89 Alice M. Bruening James T. Jahnke Mary Manz Simon 117 538 (declared elected) 271 Linda K. Barnes Gregory J. Miller Richard T. Peltier David E. Wuenscher 329 117 346 162 David L. Bahn Ronald R. Carnicom Blaise C. Sedney Laypersons (elect 2) 370 428 440 143 505 (declared elected) LCMS Foundation Board of Trustees Minister of Religion—Ordained Richard T. Drews Terry N. Hursh Robert M. Zagore 336 500 (declared elected) 244 337 450 Layperson Barry D. Burgdorf Gregory J. Miller 450 472 (declared elected) Concordia University System Board of Directors Minister of Religion—Ordained David V. Dissen Steven A. Hein Orville C. Walz 118 361 401 427 520 (declared elected) Board of Regents–Concordia University Texas Minister of Religion—Ordained Michael P. Dorn Morris Alan Taylor 507 (declared elected) 421 Minister of Religion—Commissioned Mark M. Bahr minutes 237 The chair called the Orders of the Day. Special Recognitions Vice-President Preus called forward former officers present in the hall for special recognition. Responding to his call were Dean Nadasdy, who served as Third and Fourth Vice-President, and Norman Sell, who served as the Synod’s Treasurer from 1974 until 2001. He also called forward special guests from other church bodies: Rev. Peter Prange of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Dr. Lawrence Welch of the St. Louis Archdiocese, and Rev. David Wendel of the North American Lutheran Church. And he called forward the leaders of partner church bodies: Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee of Lutheran Church—Canada; Rev. Gennadij Khonin of Evangelical Lutheran Congregation “People of God” of Kazakhstan; Rev. Amos Bolay, Rev. Samuel S. Y. Navoh, and Rev. James Kollie of the Lutheran Church in Liberia; Archbishop Christian Ekong of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria; and Rev. Alexey Streltsov and Bishop Vsevolod Lytkin of the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Omnibus Resolution C The chair brought forward Omnibus Resolution C for consideration by the convention. The chairman of Floor Committee 3 announced his committee’s intention to remove Ov. 3-16 from the resolution. A motion was made and seconded to remove Ov. 3-16, and the motion carried [Yes: 557; No: 178]. With no further dis2 0 1 3 C onvention P roceedings | 37