LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 2007, Page 24

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MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

words “as a voting member.” After discussion, the committee also added the words “at least” prior to the words “two
shall be parish pastors” in the requirement for three ordained ministers under “voting members.” After a motion
successfully terminated debate [Yes: 1,120; No: 72], Res. 506 was adopted [Yes: 1,123; No: 78].
Res. 5-05, “To Encourage Commitment to Continuing
Education for Clergy” (TB, p. 104), was then introduced by
the committee. During the discussion that followed, a suggested motion to make the necessary changes to apply the
resolution to all church workers was followed by a suggestion from the chair that the committee, if it should wish to
do so, should bring a separate resolution for that purpose. A
motion to terminate debate was carried [Yes: 1,122; No: 68],
and Res. 5-05 was adopted [Yes: 1,084; No: 132].
The committee also introduced Res. 5-08, “To Clarify Responsibility of Board for Pastoral Education re Recognized
Service Organizations” (TB, 106–107), and provided explanation. The resolution was adopted without debate [Yes:
1,108; No: 97].
Election of Vice-Presidents Two through Five
The slate of 20 candidates for the offices of vice-presidents two through five was again presented to the assembly. The result of the first ballot was as follows:

David Adams
Wally Arp
Edward Balfour
David Buegler
Bryant Clancy
Eloy Gonzalez
Matthew Harrison
Glenn Huebel
Paul Maier
Elder McCants
Charles Mueller, Jr.
Herbert Mueller, Jr.
Scott Murray
Dean Nadasdy
Clint Poppe
Daniel Preus
Lawrence Rast
Wallace Schulz
Dean Wenthe
John Wohlrabe, Jr.

280
42
39
459
81
265
221
55
675
158
273
62
185
541
32
281
90
395
152
561

Paul Maier was declared elected second vice-president.
After six names were retained according to the requirements of Bylaw 3.12.1.6, the following were the results of
the second ballot:
David Adams
515
David Buegler
593
Dean Nadasdy
666
Daniel Preus
528
Wallace Schulz
563
John Wohlrabe, Jr.
685
John Wohlrabe, Jr. was declared elected third vice-president, Dean Nadasdy fourth vice-president, and David Buegler fifth vice-president.
2007 Convention Proceedings

Reports
Dr. L. Dean Hempelmann, Executive Director of the
Board for Pastoral Education, provided a brief report and
video of the “What A Way” initiative, also describing the
many resources available to assist in efforts to encourage
young people to become full-time church workers.
Dr. Ray Halm, Director of CUEnet, briefly described the
continued success of this teacher colloquy program, introducing the 1,000th teacher to complete the course of study,
Dr. Mary Beth Gaertner. Heather Stuve, director of the colloquy program, reminded the convention that while
progress has been made, the Synod has a long way to go toward its goal of rostering all teachers in its parochial
schools.
Committee 4: Program and Finance
Committee 4 Chairman Keith Kohlmeier, President of
the Kansas District, initiated consideration of Res. 4-13,
“To Give Thanks and Praise to God for LCMS Foundation’s
50 Years of Service” (TB, p. 91), by introducing Rev. Tom
Ries, President of the LCMS Foundation, who spoke of the
foundation’s success in helping with estate planning over
the 50 years of its existence as a ministry of the Synod.
After Res. 4-13 was read and introduced for action, it was
adopted without further discussion [Yes: 1,027; No: 41].
The chairman of the LCMS Foundation’s Board of
Trustees, Rev. George Black emphasized that the LCMS
Foundation is not about money but about saving souls, and
about emphasizing stewardship education according to
sound biblical principles. To mark the LCMS Foundation’s
50th anniversary, he presented a check of $50,000 to the
President of the Synod for the purpose of establishing a
special foundation to promote stewardship education. As he
presented the check, he made the following statement:
In pursuing its mission, the Foundation teaches and practices sound principles of biblical stewardship. Stewardship education is of paramount importance to individual Christians
who seek to live out lives of faithful service and witness to
Jesus Christ. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, the Foundation Board
of Trustees, on behalf of the members of the Foundation,
hereby presents a gift of $50,000 to The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod to establish a permanent, Synod-owned endowment to help fund stewardship education in the Church
and assure that there will continue to be gifts for today, tomorrow, and forever for the work of the Church.

Committee 10: Nominations
Committee 10 Chairman John Brunner, President of the
Eastern District, called attention to Special Standing Rule
25 and noted how the nominations process will continue to
proceed. After President Kieschnick briefly described the
composition of the Committee for Convention Nominations
and the process it used to develop the slates to be presented
to the convention, the committee chairman introduced the
slate for the office of Secretary.
When the chair asked if there was an interest in offering
further nominations, a motion to accept nominations from
the floor was introduced and carried [Yes: 588; No: 581]. A
motion was introduced to nominate Rev. Larry Harvala for
the office of Secretary. When the committee chairman reported that Rev. Harvala’s name was not in the pool of