LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1983, Page 230

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230 STRUCTURE AND CONSTITUTION

shall convene the Committee on or before February 15 of the
same Year.

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. That the chairman of this Nominating Committee be desig-
nated to serve as an advisory member to the subsequent
Nominating Committee.

6. That forms used in the nominating process be revised and
then proposed to the next Committee for Convention Nomi-
nations.

. That the subcommittee be empowered to create a pool o.
names to fill positions on boards or commissions which may
be authorized by the Synod in convention, and that special
consideration should be given to candidates nominated but
not elected.

Committee for Convention Nominations
E. H. Zimmermann, Chairman

5-64

To Limit Membership
on Synodical Nominations Committee

WHEREAS, Res. 2-12 of the 1981 St. Louis convention: ‘To
Provide District Representation in the Nominating Process”
has almost tripled the size of the Committee for Convention
Nominations; and

WHEREAS, A committee now comprised of 38 members (one
from each District) is impractical, unwieldy, and an excessive
burden on the Synod's already strained treasury; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Michigan District petition the Synod at
its coming convention to limit the Committee for Convention
Nominations to 14 members: 2 teachers, 5 pastors, and 7
laymen; to be elected by the Synod beginning with the 1983
convention.

Michigan District
Eldor F. Bickel, Secretary

5-65A

To Change Method of Electing the
Committee for Convention Nominations

WHEREAS, The 1981 convention of The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod adopted a resolution which provides for the
election of the members of the Synod’s Committee for Conven-
tion Nominations by the Districts, each District electing one
member of the committee; and

WHEREAS, This increases the number of committee members
from 15 to39, making meetings of the committee more cumber-
some than in the past; and

WHEREAS, This structure gives an inordinate amount of
representation to Districts with small populations; and

WHEREAS, The entire membership of this committee that
serves a synodical convention should be elected by the dele-
gates assembled in synodical convention rather than by
individual District conventions electing only one member of
this committee; and

WHEREAS, The provision that one-half of the Districts elect
professional church workers and the other one-half elect
laypersons to serve on the committee could lead to a situation
in which only a few clergymen or noclergymen at all would be
members of the committee, thus destroying the balance
between clergy and laymen that the Synod has maintained in
the past, or to a situation in which no teachers would be
members of the committee; therefore be it

Resolved, That the 1982 convention of the Central Illinois
District memorialize the 1983 convention of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod to amend the Synod’s Handbook,
using the wording of Bylaws 2.139, 2.141, 2.143, 2.145, and 2.
147 as found in the 1979 Handbook, to provide for the election
of the Committee for Convention Nominations by the Synod’s
convention itself.

Central Illinois District
Arthur T. Kuehnert, President
J. Robert Cunningham, Secretary

Identical or similar:
5-65B to 5-65J

Beautiful Savior, Broomfield, Colo.
Messiah, Grand Junction, Colo.

Harlan Harnapp
John W. Meyer

Redeemer, Delta, Colo. Alvin Hahn
Immanuel, Paonia, Colo. Gary Ford
St. James, University City, Mo. Ken Pranschke
Mount Hope, Casper, Wyo J.B. Brown

Carl Tetzloff
Bernard E. Staake
Paul Schmidt

Mt. Calvary, Minneapolis, Minn.
Redeemer, Jackson, Wvo.
St. John’s, Algoma, Wis.

5-66
To Restructure Nominating Committee

WHEREAS, The 1981 convention altered both the numbers
and the method of electing the Committee for Convention
Nominations; and

WHEREAS, The election of a committee of the Synod in the
Districts would be more appropriate in a synod composed of
autonomous districts than in a synod which is subdivided into
districts; and

WHEREAS, A committee of some 40 people is essentially
unworkable as well as unnecessarily costly in its meeting a
number of times in St. Louis; and

WHEREAS, Practical considerations cause a considerable
amount of preliminary work and most of the search for
candidates to fall to the office of the Secretary of Synod; and

WHEREAS, A committee elected so late with respect to the
deadline for its work may be more rushed in decisions than
seems appropriate; and

WHEREAS, The committees of previous conventions were of a
more appropriate size and had a more comfortable time frame
in which to make decisions; therefore be it

Resolved, That a nominating committee composed of seven
pastors, five laypersons, and three teachers be hereafter
utilized; and be it further

Resolved, That these individuals be elected by the Synod in
convention; and be it finally

Resolved, That Bylaw 2.941 be appropriately revised so that
the change will cover the committee for the 1985 convention.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Warren, Ohio

Vincent C. Braun, President

Michael Mason, Secretary

Norman H. Schinkel, Pastor

5-67

To Change the Nominating Process

WHEREAS, The people of The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod desire nationwide representation on the boards and
commissions of the Synod; and

WHEREAS, The nominating system which was adopted at
the 1981 convention of the LCMS fails to give ‘“‘cone man, one
vote” consideration to the members of the LCMS, because
Districts with fewer Lutherans have the same representation
as those with large concentrations of Lutherans; and

WHEREAS, The size of the present committee has increased
the cost of nominating our board and commission members;
and

WHEREAS, It is impossible to elect people to the boards and
commissions of the Synod from every District; and

WHEREAS, Bylaw 2.941a calls for the election of laymen and
“churchworkers” rather than laymen, pastors, and teachers to
the Committee for Convention Nominations, thereby allowing
a possible disproportionate representation by either pastors or
teachers on the Committee for Convention Nominations (the
previous system called for 20% teacher representation); and