# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_January 25 26 2013_S39
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those constitutional articles and bylaws pertaining to ecclesiastical supervision shall
determine the full definition of ecclesiastical supervision.
(ih) Executive Director: The top staff administrator of a mission board or commission of
corporate Synod. (Note: the use of the title executive director in these bylaws applies only to
the executives of mission boards and commissions, if any such positions exist. This title is
used in other instances within corporate Synod that are not necessarily subject to the
provisions contained herein.)
(ji) Governing Board: A board that directs a separately incorporated agency of the Synod.
Governing boards are such as a board of directors, a board of trustees, a board of regents, a
board of managers, or a board of governors.
(kj) May: Permissive, expressing ability, liberty, or the possibility to act.
(lk) Member of the Synod: See Article V of the Constitution. Members of the Synod are of
two classes: corporate members (congregations that have joined the Synod) and individual
members (ministers of religion—ordained and ministers of religion—commissioned on the
roster of the Synod).
(ml) 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
(nm) 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.
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