# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S422
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

11. ELECTIONS

Since the floor committee on elections has the duty of conducting the elections during
the convention and reporting the results, no reports or overtures were assigned to it for

study and report.

12. REGISTRATION AND CREDENTIALS

12-01

To Declare as Unqualified Delegates
from Congregations Served by
Seminex Pastors

WHEREAS, The so-called Seminex is not an officially sanc-
tioned synodical educational institution; and

WHEREAS, Many of its graduates have been wrongfully
called into the holy ministry of the Synod without having been
endorsed by the faculty of either the St. Louis or the Springfield
seminaries, in violation of the provisions of Bylaw 4.15 of the
synodical Handbook; and

WHEREAS, A pastor not so certified lacks the synodically
specified qualifications for the pastoral ministry within The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; and

WHEREAS, A congregation which has called such a disquali-
fied pastor has violated its sacred covenant to “walk together”
with other member congregations of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That delegates to the convention who are mem-
bers or pastors of such a congregation be declared not qualified
to serve as delegates from their circuit and not be seated.

Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church
Youngstown, Ohio

Charles Shemenske, President
Arthur Schiefelbein, Secretary

12-02A

To Identify Possible Conflict of Interest
Among Delegates

WHEREAS, Elim, Inc. (Evangelical Lutherans In Mission),
possesses the legal status of a not-for-profit religious organiza-
tion; and

WHEREAS, Its stated purposes, structure, and activities
identify Elim as a church; and

WHEREAS, Elim conducts its official business in official
convention with voting delegates; and

WHEREAS, Some of these activities of Elim have been in
conflict with the purposes and activities of The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod; and

WHEREAS, Membership in and adherence to Elim, its stated
purposes, and activities, do indeed constitute a conflict of
interest for any serving as an official voting delegate to the 1975
convention of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; therefore
be it

Resolved, That we call upon all who will serve as delegates
to the 1975 convention of The Lutheran Church-— Missouri
Synod to give up willingly such service, if he or she has actively
joined Elim or spoken for Elim in the past, by each delegate
declaring his or her representation and adherence, for either
Elim, Inc., or The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod, before
the convention Committee on Credentials.

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Shelton, Nebr.

Allan H. Hohm, Chairman
Loren Niemack, Elder
David A. Caspersen, Pastor

Identical or similar:
12-02B to 12-02D

St. John’s, St. James, Minn.
Faith, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
St. Paul, Centreville, Mich.

Arthur Drevlow
O. D. Brack
Gene Kangas

12-03A
To Refuse to Seat Elim Representatives

Resolved, That all voting and advisory delegates representing
Elim, Inc., be denied voting, seating, and speaking privileges
in this official convention of The Lutheran Church— Missouri
Synod.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Sawyer, Mich.

Carl Gnodtke, President
Warren Strefling, Secretary
A. W. Pankratz, Pastor

Identical or similar:

12-03B to 12-03D

St. Paul, Sanford, Mich.
Grace, Lexington, Mo.
St. James, University City, Mo.

Leonard Newmann
K. M. Simminger
Tom Baker

12-04

To Not Recognize Seminex Professors
as Advisory Delegates from a
Synodical School

WHEREAS, Seminex is not a recognized institution of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; and

WHEREAS, The Missouri District assembled in convention
chose advisory delegates with the assumption that Seminex
professors could be advisory delegates to Anaheim because of
their “professorships”; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod assembled in convention declare
the Missouri District advisory delegate elections, which in-
cluded Seminex personnel as such, invalid; and be it further

Resolved, That only professors from Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis, be permitted as advisory delegates from the seminary
in St. Louis.

St. James Lutheran Church
University City, Mo.

John Essen, President

Carl Meinecke, Secretary
Tom Baker, Pastor