LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters — Minutes St. Louis, Missouri — July 24, 2019, Page 1

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MINUTES
COMMISSION ON CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS
Marriott Waterfront Hotel and Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Fla.
July 24, 2019 (67th Regular Convention)
222. Lutheran Church Extension Fund Bylaw Change (19-2916)
The committee reconvened, with all members but the Secretary, during the convention to review a change
to the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF) bylaws, as proposed by the LCEF President, pursuant to
the convention’s adoption of Res. 9-09. Article II Section 1 of the LCEF Bylaws reads (in part) as follows:
… The Chief Financial Officer of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod shall be the
Twelfth Director, with voice but no vote. …
Adoption of 2019 Res. 9-09 adds to LCMS Bylaw 3.3.4.6 a new subparagraph reading:
(d) The board shall have the right to designate a representative (by default, the Chief
Financial Officer) to attend, as a non-voting member, all meetings of the boards of
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Foundation, The Lutheran Church Extension
Fund, Concordia Publishing House, and the Board of Trustees—Concordia Plans (Board
of Directors—Concordia Plan Services), including executive sessions.
and modifies Bylaw 3.4.1.3 to read, in part:
The Chief Financial Officer also serves as the Treasurer of the corporation and shall …
(e) serve, if the board’s representation is not otherwise designated …
LCEF President Bart Day offered several possible wordings to bring the above-noted sentence of the LCEF
Bylaws into conformity with 2019 Res. 9-09. The commission gave approval to the following change, to
be presented to the LCEF Board of Directors at its next meeting, and then for approval by the LCEF
members in November:
The representative designated by the Board of Directors of The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod shall serve as the Twelfth Director, with voice but no vote.
Larry A. Peters, Assistant Secretary

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