LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1992, Page 151

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STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION 151

is to be placed shall be consulted, and his suggestions
and recommendations shall be part of the final recom-
mendation to the Board of Assignments.

127 Consecration and Initial Installation

uisites

A oni te for one of the positions for which a con-
secrated lay worker is eligible may be consecrated and
installed in a specific position when the following pre-
requisites have been met:

a. The individual shall have satisfactorily completed
a course of study prescribed or approved by the Board
for Higher Education Services and have received an ap-
pro tate degree, diploma, or certificate from a synodical
college.

6. The individual shall have given evidence of a
readiness and desire to serve a congregation or other
eligible entity.

c. The individual shall have received endorsement by
the proper faculty as a consecrated lay worker.

- 4d. The individual shall have received and accepted
an appointment from a congregation or other eligible
entity.

2. Rites of Consecration and Installation

The President of the District of which the appointing
congregation is a member or in which the eligible ap-
pointing entity is located or with which it is otherwise
identified shall be responsible for the rite of consecration
of candidates, The rite of consecration will take place in
the presence of the congregation or other entity to which
the candidate has been appointed. The District President
shall issue a diploma of consecration. \

3. Initial Installation i

Acting under the authority provided in the Bylaws,.

the District President shall be responsible for initial 'in-
stallations of consecrated lay workers appointed to po-
sitions with congregations which are members of his
District or with other eligible calling bodies subject to
his ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The rite of installation
shall always take place in the presence of the appointing
ation or other appointing body, except that in the

cose of lay missionaries appointed by the Synod, mem-
bers of a faculty of a synodical institution, or institu-
tional church workers, the rite shall take place in a
setting approved by the District President.

4. Forms and Practices

- The rites of consecration and rites of installation
should be in accordance with forms and practices de-
veloped by the Synod for that purpose, and in all events
the consecrated lay worker shall be solemnly pledged to
the Scriptures as the inspired and inerrant Word of ' God

and the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church asa

true exposition of the Scriptures.
C. ECCLESIASTICAL SUPERVISION

7.41 Supervision

The consecrated lay worker sholl be under the eccle-
Siastical supervision of the President of the District|in
which he/she is serving.

7.43 Certified Church Workers, Lay, Listing

Subject to the pravisions of the Constitution and By-
laws, the District President shall be responsible for the
initial placement of the names of all consecrated lay
workers on the certified church workers, lay, listing|of
the Synod and also for their removal. A consecrated lay
worker accepting an appointment to a congregation ina
sister District, ‘shall immediately report such decision|to
histher District President and ask for a transfer. The
District President shall forward such transfer to the
President of the sister District. Upon receipt of the trans-

fer and of a Request for Installation Form from the con-

secrated lay worker, the District President of the sister
District shall install or authorize installation of such
consecrated lay worker. The District President shall be
responsible for maintaining records of transfers into and
out of his District.

7.45 Seeking Certified Church Workers, Lay, for
Appointment

1. Congregations shall seek the advice of the respec-
tive District President when appointing consecrated lay
workers.

2. If congregations which are members of the Synod
shall desire to appoint and be served by consecrated lay
workers, they shall appoint and be served only by con-
, secrated lay workers who have been admitted to these

respective ministries in accordance with the rule and
regulations set forth in these Bylaws.

3. Congregations which violate this requirement and
persist in such violation shall, after due admonition,
forfeit their membership in the Synod.

{ 4. Workers who violate the requirements for eligibility
for listing as consecrated lay worker and persist in such
violation shall, after due admonition, be removed from
the listing of consecrated lay workers and shall no longer
be eligible to serve in that capacity. °

5. Notification of ineligibility for service shall be sent
to the Council of Presidents;

‘and be it further

1 Resolved, That all those who meet the eligibility re-
‘quirements and who have been serving in this capacity be
‘recognized as Certified Church Workers, Lay.

Action: Adopted (12).

To Refer. Term Limitation
to Board of Directors

RESOLUTION 5-06
1
‘Overtures 5-39-49, 8-34 (CW, pp. 248-60, 303-304)

Wuereas, Floor Committee 5 carefully looked at the
subject of term limitation for aynodical President and Vice-
President; and

Wuereas, There is wide divergence of opinion on the
subject; and
| Wuereas, This matter has been presented to several
previous conventions; therefore be it

Resolved, That this matter be referred to the Board of
Directors (Council on Mission and Ministry, if adopted) of
the Synod for study and report to the next synodical
convention.
|
Action: Adopted (14).

To Transfer Fountain of Life from
English to Pacific Southwest District
' RESOLUTION 5-07

Overture 5-74 (CW, p. 263)

I

' Resolved, That Fountain of Life Lutheran Church, Tuc-
son, Ariz., at its request, be transferred from the English
District to the Pacific Southwest District of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod.

Action: Adopted (11).