LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 2019, Page 208

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10. ECCLESIASTICAL SUPERVISION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
satisfied before a worker is ordained or commissioned
and initially installed in a first call.
(bd) Missionaries and non-foreign specialized
ministers: The authorizationAuthorization for the
ordination or commissioning and/or installation of a
missionaryan ordained or commissioned minister called
into the foreign fieldsfor foreign service, other than to a
foreign member congregation, whether as a first or
subsequent call, shall be provided by the appropriate
district president upon the request of the Board for
International Mission by the president of the Missouri
District.
(e) The authorization Authorization for the ordination
or commissioning and/or installation of a Synod-called
non-foreign specialized ministers, whether as a first or
subsequent call, shall be provided by the appropriate
district president upon the request of the Board for
National Mission by the president of the Missouri
District.
(c) Synod staff members: Ordained and commissioned
ministers who are members of the Synod called by the
Synod to serve the national Synod shall be installed, in
accordance with forms and practices developed by the
Synod for that purpose, by the president of the Missouri
District, or by his representatative.
(d) Professors and instructional staff members:
Ordained and commissioned ministers who are
members of the Synod called or appointed to serve at the
Synod’s educational institutions as professors and
instructional staff members shall be installed, in
accordance with forms and practices developed by the
Synod for that purpose, by the president of the district in
which the institution is located, or by his representative.
(e) Second and subsequent installations of ministers:
Rostered ordained and commissioned ministers who
have been duly called to positions of full- or part-time
service shall be installed upon authorization provided by
the president of the district from which the call
originates. Each installation shall be conducted, in
accordance with forms and practices developed by the
Synod for that purpose, by the district president or by an
ordained minister designated by the district president.
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4.4.7
The district president shall be responsible for
maintaining the official rosters of his district.
(a) He shall add the names of those ordained or
commissioned ministers initially placed in the district
and those accepting a call to or otherwise transferring to
the district.
(b) He shall remove the names of those who have died
or have resigned their membership or have had their
membership in the Synod duly terminated.
(c) An ordained or commissioned minister accepting a
call to a congregation in a sister district or to an
institution which relates to such district shall
immediately report such decision to his district
president and ask for ashall request his district
membership be evaluated transfer of membership
(Bylaw 2.12.1.1). The district president shall forward such
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any requisite transfer to the president of the sister
receiving district.
(d) Upon receipt of the transfer and of a request for
installation from the minister of religion, the district
president of the sister receiving district shall install or
authorize installation of such minister.
(e) He shall regularly forward roster reports to the
Secretary of the Synod for publication in The Lutheran
Annual.

B. CALLING BODY CONSULTATION WITH DISTRICT
PRESIDENT
Rationale
It was also found to be desirable for bylaws dealing with
call, ordination/commissioning, and installation to deal
more uniformly and completely with all types of called
service (not simply congregational calls), including a
clearer requirement of consultation with the supervising
district in every call situation, for the protection of both
calling bodies and called workers and for the more effective
exercise of ecclesiastical supervision. Obtaining a district
president’s counsel in the call process is essential for many
reasons, most apparently because he has access to
ecclesiastical supervisory information on call candidates
(including any restrictions that may be in place, Bylaws
2.13.2–2.13.2.4).
Therefore be it
Resolved, That Bylaw section 2.5 be amended as follows,
to clarify and extend the requirement of a calling body’s
consultation with the appropriate district president when
it begins the call process:
2.5 Calling Ministers of Religion by Congregations
2.5.1
Congregations, school associations, agencies,
auxiliaries, and recognized service organizations of the
Synod shall seek the counsel of their respective the
appropriate district presidents when calling ordained or
commissioned ministers.
(a) A congregation or school association shall seek the
counsel of its own district president.
(b) An agency, auxiliary, or recognized service
organization shall seek the counsel of the district
president who would, by virtue of the call, assume
supervision of the minister (Bylaw section 2.12). If the
call is such that the district president to assume
supervision is not known, the counsel of the president of
the district within which the entity is located or with
which it is associated shall be sought.
(c) If such a call involves multiple districts (such as by
entity location or connection and/or position locale), the
presidents of all such districts shall be consulted and
mutually agree on which one of them will counsel the
entity regarding the call and assume supervision of the
worker called.
2.5.2
Congregations that are members of the Synod,
association schools, agencies, auxiliaries, and recognized
service organizations shall call and be served only by (1)
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