# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S161
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the Synod) and individual members (ministers of
religion—ordained and ministers of religion—commissioned on the roster of the Synod).
(lm) Mission Board: An officially established group of
persons elected as prescribed in the Bylaws, charged
with developing and determining policies for an operating a ministry function of the Synod as prescribed in
the Bylaws. These policies shall establish boundaries,
parameters, and principles that guide the respective mission office in determining present and future
activities and programs. The mission board shall have
oversight of the implementation of these policies. The
President of the Synod shall be responsible for supervising the implementation of mission board policies in
accordance with his responsibilities under Constitution Art. XI and Bylaws 3.3.1.1.1–3.3.1.3. The mission
boards of the Synod are:
(1) Board for National Mission
(2) Board for International Mission
(mn) Officer: Those positions identified in Constitution Art. X A or Art. XII 3 or Bylaw sections 3.3 and
3.4 unless qualified by a modifier.
(n) Operating Board: The Board of Directors and mission boards of the Synod, the Board of Directors of
Concordia Plan Services, and the governing boards of
the synodwide corporate entities.
(o) Oversight: For the purpose of these Bylaws, to monitor; to make inquiry and receive a response thereto; to
make suggestions; to bring concerns to the attention
of a higher authority.
(p) Praesidium: The President and the vice-presidents
of the Synod.
(q) Property of the Synod: All assets, real or personal,
tangible or intangible, whether situated in the United
States or elsewhere, titled or held in the name of the
Synod, its nominee, or an agency of the Synod. “Property of the Synod” does not include any assets held
by the Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri
Synod or by an agency of the Synod in a fiduciary
capacity (including, for purposes of example, the
funds managed for the Concordia Plans by Concordia
Plan Services and certain funds held by The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod Foundation).
(r) Region: A division of the Synod for the purpose of
regional elections.
(s) Shall: A word of command that must always be
given an imperative or compulsory meaning.
(t) Subcommittee: Persons who are voting or advisory
members of a board or commission who perform a
specific function and are in a reporting relationship
to the parent group. Subcommittees may be standing
or ad hoc.
(ut) Supervision: For the purpose of these Bylaws
(other than those pertaining to ecclesiastical superR e s olu t i on s

vision), to have authority over, to direct actions, to
control activities.
(vu) Synod: Refers collectively to the association of
self-governing Lutheran congregations and all its agencies on the national and district levels. The Synod, as
defined herein, is not a civil law entity.
(wv) Synodwide Corporate Entity: A separate corporation established by the Synod for business and legal
reasons. For the purposes of these Bylaws, the “synodwide corporate entities” of the Synod are the following
corporations:
(1) Concordia Historical Institute
(2) Concordia Publishing House
(3) Lutheran Church Extension Fund—Missouri
Synod
(4) Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Foundation
(5) Concordia University System
The term “synodwide corporate entity” is not used in
these Bylaws to include foreign corporations created
by the Synod in order to undertake foreign missions.
(xw) Task Force: An appointed group that has an
ad hoc assignment to accomplish a specific task and
whose duties have a definite expiration date.
(yx) Voting Member: A member congregation of the
Synod. (See Art. V A of the Constitution.)
Action: Adopted (6)
(Res. 6-05 was adopted without discussion by voice vote.)

To Address Synod Handbook Issues
re Synodwide Corporate Entity
Governing Instruments
RESOLUTION 6-06
Overture 6-17 (CW, p. 237)
Whereas, Bylaw 3.6.1.7, as currently worded, requires synodwide corporate entities to provide specific provisions in “each” of
their governing instruments, a requirement which when taken literally is burdensome to these corporations; and
Whereas, “Each” governing instrument can refer to many documents including policy manuals; therefore be it
Resolved, That the 2013 convention adopt the following changes
to Bylaw 3.6.1.7:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
3.6.1.7 Each synodwide corporate entity shall provide the following in its governing instruments:
(a) Each governing instrument shall include the a
provision that every member of the governing board
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