# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_October 16 17 1967_S2
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

2.112 Commission on Ministerial Health
a. Membership. The President of the Synod shall appoint a Commission on Ministerial Health
consisting of two pastors, one teacher, and two lay persons, at least one of whom shall be a
physician or psychiatrist. Each District President shall also appoint a District Commission on
Ministerial Health consisting, if possible, of the same type of membership.
b. Functions.
1. The synodical commission shall develop standards and procedural guidelines.
2. The District commission shall be charged with the responsibility of receiving, investigating,
and considering petitions from or complaints concerning the alleged disability of a professional
church worker. These requests may be initiated in writing by the worker, by an adult member of
his family, by the board of elders or the church council of his congregation, or by the synodical or
District board which is his ecclesiastical employer.
3. The District commission shall be authorized to use the professional consultative services
needed to establish the facts in the situation. Subject to prevailing legal limitations regarding the
necessary consent of a party to comprehensive or special medical examinations, the commission
may secure a prognosis and recommend a program of remedial or supportive care. The
commission may propose vocational redirection or guidance into a more suitable work situation,.
4. The District commission shall have the authority to recommend to the District President
specific courses of action.
5. The Board of Managers of the Concordia Plans, the Board of Support and Pensions, and the
Board of World Relief, respectively, may be asked to offer assistance and support in the care of the
worker and the dependents in an individual case.
6. Reports on individual cases shall be made annually to the synodical Personnel Director, who
shall also refer cases of appeal from the decision of a District commission to the synodical
Commission on Ministerial Health.
c. Staff. The Personnel Director of the Synod shall perform whatever staff work is necessary
for the synodical commission.
16. Paragraph 2.151 Report of Board for Convention Nominations: "Synod" was eliminated from in the
official Synod convention book." See also Resolution 5-34.
17. Paragraph 2.175 Council of Administrators: "shall consist" instead of "consists."
18. Paragraph 3.11 Rules of Order: It was decided not to insert after "The conventions of the Districts" the
word's: "which shall normally be held before the end of July of each even numbered year." (Resolution
4-13).
19. Paragraph 3.37 Election and Time of Service of District Officers: It was resolved to retain this in the
Handbook as 3.39.