# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S207
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(c) If an unusual circumstance warrants it, as in
the case of missionaries and non-foreign specialized ministers, the appropriate district president
may authorize that the rite take place in the home
congregation of the candidate, or another appropriate congregation, with the permission of the
calling congregation or other agency or calling
body.
(d) A service of celebration on the part of the candidate’s home congregation is encouraged.
(e) The district president shall issue a diploma of
ordination or commissioning.
4.4 District President
4.4.3

…
The district president of the calling congregation,
agency, or other calling body (e.g., in the case of
corporate-Synod-issued calls, the president of the
Missouri District) shall represent the Synod in connection with all ordinations, commissionings, and
installations.
(a) First calls: Ordinations, commissionings, and
initial installations shall be conducted by or at
the direction of the district president when the
requirements of Bylaw 2.10.2 (a) have been satisfied.
(b) Missionaries and non-foreign specialized
ministers: The authorization for the ordination
or commissioning and the installation of a missionary called into the foreign fields, whether as
a first or subsequent call, shall be provided issued
upon the request of the Board for International
Mission by the president of the district in which
the missionary resides Missouri District. The
authorization with respect to for the ordination
or commissioning and the installation for service
of Synod-called non-foreign specialized ministers
within a district of the Synod, whether as a first
or subsequent call, shall be issued provided upon
the request of the Board for National Mission by
the president of that district the Missouri District.
(c) Synod staff members: Ordained and commissioned ministers who are members of the Synod
called or appointed by the Synod to serve the
national Synod shall be installed, in accordance
with forms and practices developed by the Synod
for that purpose, by the president of the Missouri
District, or by his representative.
(d) Professors and instructional staff members:
Ordained and commissioned ministers who are
members of the Synod called or appointed to
serve at the Synod’s educational institutions as
professors and instructional staff members shall
be installed, in accordance with forms and practices developed by the Synod for that purpose, by

“11. Structure and Administration”

the president of the district in which the institution is located, or by his representative.
(e) Second and subsequent installations of
ministers: Except as provided in the foregoing
paragraphs, Rostered ordained ministers and
commissioned ministers who have been duly
called to a positions of full- or part-time service
shall be installed upon authorization provided by
the appropriate district president of the district
from which the call originates. Each installation
shall be conducted, in accordance with forms and
practices developed by the Synod for that purpose,
by the district president or by an ordained minister designated by the district president.
Action: Adopted (8)
(Brief summaries were provided for this and seven other resolutions which the committee wished to bundle into a single action
as “housekeeping matters.” Following explanations provided, the
chair asked the assembly whether it was ready to vote. Hearing no
objection, he called for the vote and the bundled resolution action
that included Res. 11-04B, Res. 11-08A, Res. 11-11, Res. 11-12, Res.
11-13, Res. 11-15A, Res. 11-17, and Res. 11-20 was adopted as presented [Yes: 923; No: 32].)

To Update Bylaw 2.12.1.4 to Include Mention
of Office of National Mission
RESOLUTION 11-13
Overture L11-59 (TB, p. 35)
Rationale
The 2013 LCMS convention (Res. 2-05B) amended Bylaw 3.8.2 by
adding a final paragraph to allow the extension of calls to specialized pastoral ministers by the Board for National Mission upon
recommendation of the Office of National Mission:
3.8.2

Upon recommendation of the Office of National Mission, the Board for National Mission shall serve as a
calling agency for institutional and agency chaplains
and other non-foreign specialized ministers (e.g.,
Veterans Administration chaplains, Bureau of Prison
chaplains, hospital chaplains, pastoral counselors,
and teachers of chaplaincy and pastoral counseling)
after consultation with the appropriate district president(s) (cf. Bylaw 2.12.1.4).

While the parenthetical reference to Bylaw 2.12.1.4 in the above
new Bylaw 3.8.2 paragraph infers its application to Bylaw 2.12.1.4
and its consultation requirement, specific mention of the Office
of National Mission is not made. The Commission on Handbook
therefore proposes the following bylaw changes to affirm the connection between Bylaws 3.8.2 and 2.12.1.4. Therefore be it
Resolved, That Bylaw 2.12.1.4 be amended as follows:

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