# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S488
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-1938A

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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

PACE

To Adopt District Presidents’ Guidelines for
Evangelical Supervision _

(Also 187B, C)
To Seek Reconciliation Through Fraternal Dis-
cussion
To Provide Additional Channel for Resolving
Present Differences
To Take Various Steps Regarding St. Louis
Seminary and Colleges Generally — — ___
To Call Springfield Seminary to Action —____
To Support Efforts to Eliminate “False Teach-
ing” and Promotion of Doctrine That is Con-
trary to LCMS Positions
To Support Efforts of Synod President and Fact
Finding Committee in St.Louis Seminary In-
vestigation _

(Also 3-193B)
To Express Appreciation for the Work of the
Fact Finding Committee —_
To Lend Full Support to Dr. J. A. O. Preus in
His Confessional Stand and Program —_____.

(Also 3-195B)
To Investigate Administrative Decisions of the
Seminary —. a

4. Synodical Administration

President’s Report
Report of First Vice-President _____
Report of Secretary of Synod _...
Report of Board of Directors ..._. ____-__...
Report of Department of Research and Statis-
tics
Report of Synodical Service Commission ___
Report Re Lutheran Church — Canada .-
Report of Commission on Mission and Ministry
in the Church
Report of Ad Hoc Committee to Review the
Appellate Process
Revort of 125th Anniversary ‘Committee -
125th Anniversary Thankoffering Progress Re-
port
Report of Division of Communications (Mil.
Res. 10-11)

(Also 4-11B)
To Call for Realignment
To Divide Synod’s Property
To Structure an Amicable Division

(Also 4-14B)
To Dissolve Synod for Purposes of Peaceful
Division
To Determine Rights of Withdrawing Congre-
gations __-.
Tio Recognize Mission Churches | Overseas as
National Churches
To Encourage Non-U.S. Districts to Form Na-
tional Churches -
To Dissolve English District ————.___
To Suggest Solution to Problem of English
District
To Assimilate English District a
To Merge English into Geographical Districts
To Incorporate English District into Existing
Districts
To Amend Bylaws to Make Possible Establish-
ment of Non-Geographical District
To Establish Non-Geographic District

(Also 4-25B)
To Transfer Trinity, Onarga, IIL,
Illinois District -

(Also 4-26B, C)

to Central

To Transfer St. Paul’s, Venango, Nebr., to Colo-
rado District

(Also 4-27B, C)
To Transfer Christ, Birmingham, to English
District
To Transfer Faith, Girard, Pa., to Eastern Dis-
trict

(Also 4-29B, C)

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To Transfer Highland Park. Los Angeles, to
English District

(Also 4-30B)
To Transfer Christ the King to English District
To Transfer Oklahoma Avenue, Milwaukee, to
South Wisconsin District
To Receive into Membership Christ the Cor-
nerstone Congregation
To Transfer Peace, San Diego, from English
to southern California District —_— _
To Transfer Pilgrim, Chula Vista. Calif.. from
English to Southern California District __
To Merge Commission on Organizations with
CTCR
To Abolish Commission on Mission and Min-
istry in the Church -
To Abolish CMMC
To Dissolve CMMC _

(Also 4-39B, C)
To Continue Commission on World Hunger —
To Create Standing Commission on World
Hunger .
To Provide for Greater Use and Control of
Boards and Commissions . --
To Restore Seminary Property to Synod _
To Exercise Good Stewardship with Synod’s
Budget
To Review Council of Administrators
To Advise President in Appointments ——
To Abolish All Permanent Tenure Offices, In-
cluding Faculty Positions .
To Give Reason for Dismissal or Termination
of Contract -. .
To Reveal Salaries
To Begin No Anniversary Project ‘Until Funds
Are Received _____.. a
To Strive to Do Convention Business Only
with Project Equality Members —.— _._
To Include Teacher Delegates in Mailing of
Proceedings _.
To Eliminate Review of Conference Essays _
To Eliminate Excuse Committee for District
Conventions —~_
To Supply Guidelines | for Congregational Of-
fices
To Call Circuit Counselors’ Convocations —-
To Establish Office of Conciliation —_—_-
To Make Church Extension Board Once Again
an Elective Board —-
To Retain Retirement Policy

5. Constitutional Matters

Report of Commission on Constitutional Mat-
ters _-.
Report of Committee on . Organization ee
Report of CMMC on Denver Resolution 1-15
(Examination of Constitution) ee
To Restudy and Reevaluate the Synod’s Ob-
jectives ...
To Convene a Constitutional Committee to Re-
view and Rewrite Constitution -
(Also 5-05B, C.D. E, F.G,H,1, J, K)
To Call a Constitutional Convention —______
To Study Polity and Structure of Synod with
Reference to Mission and Ministry — ———-____
To Change Legislative Process in Synod and
Districts
To Aiter Makeup of Board of Directors
To Provide New Structure for Policy Making
To Modify Organizational Structures ~_-
To Introduce Quadrennial Conventions —____
(Also 5-12B)
To Hold Conventions Every 4 Years
(Also 5-13B)
To Adopt 3-Year Convention Schedule
To Initiate Changes in Synodical Conventions
ye Restate Conditions of Synodical Member-
ship __

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