# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_February 23 2013_S48
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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.
(tu) Supervision: For the purpose of these Bylaws (other than those pertaining to
ecclesiastical supervision), to have authority over, to direct actions, to control activities.
(uv) 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.
(vw) 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.
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