# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_August 17 18 2018_S10
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(1) Each voter may write in the names of two such pastors on the initial ballot. The three
pastors (or more, in case of a tie vote) who receive the highest number of votes in this
preliminary ballot shall be placed on the next ballot.
(2) Each voter shall now vote for only one candidate. Balloting shall continue with the
lowest candidate being removed from each succeeding ballot until one pastor shall have
received a simple majority of all votes cast, whereupon he shall be declared the pastoral
delegate.
(3) The congregation or congregations served (in other than an assisting capacity) by the
elected pastoral delegate shall be removed from consideration for supplying any other
voting delegate or alternate for that particular convention.
3.12.2.3 The Secretary of the Synod shall compile and maintain the voters list for the election of the
President of the Synod. This list and any of its parts shall not be disseminated.
(a) This voters list shall include:
(1) the pastor of each member congregation or multi-congregation parish (assisting pastors
are not eligible)
(2) a lay person from the congregation or parish
and be it further
Resolved, That Bylaw 3.3.1, regarding the service of the President of the Synod, be revised as follows
to incorporate the new language of assisting capacity rather than the now-removed constitutional category
of assistant pastor:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
3.3.1

The President of the Synod shall be a full-time executive and shall serve as a voting member of
the Board of Directors of the Synod.
(a) He shall not be in charge of a congregation or hold a chair at any educational institution
but may be called as an assistant pastorto a congregation in an assisting capacity, provided such
services do not interfere with his official duties as President.
(b) He shall, with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Synod, be empowered to engage
sufficient staff to carry out the duties of his office.

and be it further
Resolved, That congregations and district presidents be urged to arrange for those regularly assisting
congregations with pastoral service to be called, installed, and rostered as such; and be it finally
Resolved, That LCMS Rosters & Statistics and the Council of Presidents be directed to coordinate
changes to the forms and procedures for multi-congregation parish designation and then to assist
congregations in adjusting calls and designations as necessary under these newly-adopted bylaws.
Commission on Constitutional Matters
162. College/University Board of Regents Questions (18-2889)
A college/university board of regents of Synod has asked numerous questions concerning the closing of a
Concordia System college or university. The CCM has consolidated these questions in order to provide a
road map of how Synod’s bylaws designate that a Concordia University may be closed. This road map
includes the roles of the board of directors of the Concordia University System, the individual Concordia
University’s board of regents, Synod’s Board of Directors, the Council of Presidents, and Synod itself. The

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