# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S53
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

called; this was carried [Yes: 645; No: 21]. The resolution
failed of adoption [Yes: 180; No: 520].
The chair thanked Barb Below and Lynne Marvin;
assistants Kim Vieker, Georgia Endicott, and Jeffrey
Hemmer; Chief Mission Officer Robson and “all the great
people of the LCMS”; those who provided services or
volunteered to serve the convention, the floor committees,
and the convention for “making decisions that mattered in
the future of the Church body.” He expressed the “great
desire” that the delegates would come away refreshed,
“knowing that the Missouri Synod is an amazing thing,
despite our weaknesses.” He blessed the assembly with the
apostolic benediction.
Itinerarium
Chaplain Sean Daenzer led the convention in the
Itinerarium, with the text, Luke 1:68–79; Kantor Machemer
provided accompaniment.
Adjournment
President Harrison declared the 68th Regular Convention
of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod closed in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to
which the delegation responded, “Amen.”
John W. Sias, Secretary

Minutes

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