# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S35
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Anthony J. Schultz

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For Layperson
Central Region
(6-year term)
John Frerking
Ernest E. Garbe
Frederick P. Guengerich
Louis W. Kastens, III
Sharon Rapp

196
481
53
57
226

181
554 (declared elected)
290

For Layperson
East-Southeast Region
(3-year term)
Eunice Bailey
Gilbert M. F. Brauch, Jr.	
Julia Habrecht
Michael Killian
Andrew Rullman

120
52
664 (declared elected)
87
87

For Layperson
Great Lakes Region
(6-year term)
Robert Knox
Crysten Sanchez
Matthew Voigt
Joyce M. Voss
K. Allan Voss

397
334
52
70
141

421
499

421
595 (declared elected)

101

For Layperson
Great Plains Region
(3-year term)
Michael Borg
Carla M. Claussen
Robert E. Dunker
Thomas R. Halvorson
Jack H. Hildner

136
545 (declared elected)
152
152
23

For Layperson
West-Southwest Region
(6-year term)
Jeffrey B. Arthurs
Carol A. Hack Broome
James Cullen
Linda Stoterau
Damon P. Tobias

125
391
127
288
78

552 (declared elected)
150
333

Special Recognition—Special Church Body Guests
Dr. Albert Collver, Director of Church Relations and Assistant to the President, began his introduction of the special
church body guests in attendance with the following comments:
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to
the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you” (Ps. 22:27).
On the day of Pentecost, the Lord undid the curse
brought upon humankind, where their language was
confused, and tribalism and racism began. At Pentecost, every person heard the Gospel proclaimed in his
own language, and people were made into one family in
Christ Jesus. Here in this world, we take great joy in recognizing those who share our view of Scripture and our
confession, as well as those who seek it.
“Convention Minutes”

The current age provides an unprecedented opportunity for world Lutheranism. Alignments are shifting as
is the center of world Christianity. In the first centuries
after the apostles, Christianity centered in Northern
Africa and spread to Europe and into Asia. Europe and
then North America dominated world Christianity for
more than 1,000 years. Today, as the churches of Europe
and North America leave behind the truths of the Scriptures, world Christianity is shifting to the Global South,
particularly Africa and Asia. Many of these churches
are seeking the teaching held by the Missouri Synod
and the churches of the International Lutheran Council
(ILC). The time is now to engage these churches in partnership and walk beside them as they seek to increase
their Lutheran identity and their faithfulness to the
Holy Scriptures.
Including our partner churches, the Missouri Synod
has relations with about 70 church bodies worldwide in
about 55 countries. I would encourage you to take a look
at the list of the churches the LCMS has engagement
with (see Sunday’s Today’s Business, Part 1, beginning
on p. 216). I would encourage you to take a look at the
list of these churches and also read the letters received
from more than 40 of these church bodies (Sunday’s
Today’s Business, Part 1).
At this convention, we have present church leaders or
representatives from approximately 20 countries (some
of whom stand before you). Please allow me to introduce these guests to the LCMS convention:

AFRICA
The Rev. Amos Bolay, Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Liberia
The Most Rev. Walter E. Obare, Presiding Bishop,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya
The Rev. Benjamin Lemose, Evangelical Lutheran
Church
in Kenya
The Most Rev. Christian Ekong, Archbishop,
Lutheran Church of Nigeria
The Rt. Rev. Modise Maragelo, Bishop, Lutheran
Church
in South Africa
The Rev. Nathaniel Nyok Bol, South Sudan
Evangelical Lutheran Church

ASIA
The Rev. S. Rajagambeeram, President, India
Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Rev. J. Samuel, President Emeritus, India
Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Rev. Dr. D. Monikaraj, Principal, Concordia
Theological Seminary, India
The Rev. Tatsuomi Yoshida, Japan Lutheran Church

AUSTRALIA
The Rev. John Henderson, Bishop, Lutheran Church
of Australia
UPON THIS ROCK

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