LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1962, Page 188

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188 UNPRINTED MEMORIALS

[601-B]

To Amend Section 3.21 of “Handbook”
re Election of District Presidents
and District Vice-Presidents

Wuereas, Some latitude is being requested by sev-
eral Districts of the Synod in the nominating and in
the electing of their District President and Vice~Presi-
dents; and

Wuereas, It seems desirable, in the light of present-
day conditions, which have persuaded some Districts to
elect a full-time President and other Districts to think
in terms of regional Vice-Presidents, to grant this re-
quested latitude to the several Districts of the Synod;
therefore be it

Resolved, To add the following sentence to Section
3.21 of the synodical Handbook:

“Every District of the Synod shall have the right to
adopt regulations regarding the nomination and the
election of its President and regarding the nomination
and the election and the ranking of its Vice-Presidents.”

CoMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTIONAL MatTTErs
ALVIN W. MvueEtier, Chairman

HERBERT KUENNE

Gustave _KUHLMANN

Artaour Nitz, Advisory

W. C. Brxner, Secretary

[602-C]

Supplemental Report of Synodical
Survey Commission

Permit us to propose the following additional items
for consideration at the forty-fifth regular convention
of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, assembled
at Cleveland, Ohio, June 20—30, 1962. We are present-
ing the following materials as addenda to our report
which was printed in Reports and Memorials, 1962,
pp. 228—268.

Items included in these additional recommendations
and proposals are:

1. The creation of a single Division of Missions;

2. The creation of a Board for Services to Mentally
Retarded;

3. The definition of the scope and activities of the
Board for Radio Station KFUO;

4. An additional item for future study;

5. The creation of a Central Office Services Depart-
ment.

The recommendations also include modifications rec-
ommended in our report in Reports and Memorials,
1962, as presented on pages 228—268 in the following
areas:

1. The deletion of a sentence in the proposals re-
garding the President of the Synod;

2. Additions to the regulations concerning the Board
of Directors;

3. The revision of a paragraph on Concordia Pub-
lishing House;

4. The recommendations with respect to the Com-
mission on Church Literature which are to replace those
in Reports and Memorials, 1962, pp. 248—250.

5. Elaboration re job evaluations and classifications
by the Personnel Department.

I. Single Division of Missions

The 1959 convention resolutions concerning the
transfer of the responsibility for Middle and South
American Missions and any other missions outside con-
tinental United States and Canada from the Board for
Missions in North and South America to the Board for
Missions in Foreign Countries (Proceedings, 1959,
p. 253) was not implemented in view of a better pro-
posal to merge the two existing mission divisions into
one. Thus, the Synodical Survey Commission, upon the
recommendations of the Board for Foreign Missions and
the Board for North and South American Missions,
recommends that the Division of World Missions and
the Division of North American Missions be merged
into a single Division of Missions. It is further recom-
mended that after the 1962 convention, cooperative and
joint board arrangements be provided especially for the
Board for Foreign Missions and the Board for North
and South American Missions. Ultimately it may even
be possible to merge some of the boards in the proposed
Division of Missions. This proposal does not provide
for the appointment of a full-time chairman for such
a division. It is assumed that the chairman of the Divi-
sion of Missions will be appointed from among the men
presently serving as full-time executives in the division.

The Survey Commission recommends that the con-
vention adopt the following five paragraphs in order to
implement the proposal:

1. That the Cleveland convention authorize the
merging of the Divisions of World Missions and North
American Missions into a single Division of Missions.

2. That the Board for Foreign Missions and the
Board for North and South American Missions conduct
at least one joint board meeting annually during the
next triennium and that representatives of all boards
in the Division of Missions conduct at least one annual
meeting during the same triennium.

3. That the executive staff of all the boards in the
Division of Missions meet at least quarterly each year
during the next triennium.

4, That the functions of the individual boards, con-
stituting the Division of Missions and their relationship
to the division be reviewed and altered, where neces-
sary, by the Board of Directors in the next triennium
upon the recommendations of the Executive Director
in consultation with the executive secretaries of the
division, the boards involved, and the Council of
Administrators.

5. That the chairman of the Division of Missions be
appointed in the usual manner.