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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 232

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232 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

(or major fraction thereof) within such mission area:
provided, however, that each mission area shall be
entitled to at least one representative.

Board for Missions
Herman H. Kopplemann,
Acting Executive Secretary

To Amend Bylaw 1.07
(Advisory Delegates)

WHEREAS, The Synod at New Orleans granted equal status
to women teachers and also made them eligible to appear on
the Synod’s teacher roster: and

WHEREAS, All teachers on the roster of the Synod are pres-
ently obligated to attend the District conventions: and

WHEREAS, Such increased attendance will add substantially
to the convention expenses of congregations with schools: and

WHEREAS, Advisory teacher delegates can represent facul-

ties and in return report proceedings to the faculties: therefore
e it

Resolved. That the Michigan District, assembled in conven-

tion, memorialize the Synod that Bylaw 1.07 of the Constitution
be amended to read as follows:

1.07 Duties of Advisory Members

a. Advisory members of the Synod shall attend the
District conventions: however, congregations with
schools may send as many of their teacher delegates
as they choose. Such congregations shall send at least
one teacher advisory delegate per school.

b. Advisory members shall not be elected by any
congregation or by any group of congregations as lay
delegates to a synodical convention, nor shall they be
accredited as such. Former pastors and teachers who
are regularly engaged in a secular calling shall no
longer be considered advisory members.

Michigan District
Norbert H. Mueller, Secretary

To Disallow Voting Delegates
Attending Two Conventions in
Succession

WHEREAS. Attendance at a convention of the Synod is a
privilege and opportunity that only a few lay persons and a few
clergy of the Synod may experience: and

WHEREAS, This experience is in many ways beneficial to
the persons who attend and participate and should therefore
be shared with others; and

WHEREAS. In some instances in the past certain clergymen
and certain lay persons have been elected to attend as voting
delegates several conventions in succession: and

WHEREAS, The present Bylaws of the Synod do not forbid
this: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod’s Bylaws, paragraphs 1.53 a and b,
be amended to add the following sentences to disallow atten-
dance as a voting delegate by a person at two successive con-
ventions:

Add to 1.53 a:

... The pastoral delegate who attended the last regu-
lar convention of the Synod shall not be eligible for
nomination or election as a voting delegate, but he may
serve, if nominated and elected, as voting delegate to
the second convention held following the one at which
he served as a voting delegate.

Add to 1.53 b:

. .. The lay delegate who attended the last regular
convention of the Synod shall not be eligible for
nomination or election as a voting lay delegate, but he
or she may serve, if nominated and elected, as a voting
delegate to the second convention held following the
one at which he or she served as a voting delegate.

Trinity Ev. Lutheran Congregation
E] Reno, Okla.

Lee T. Goodwin, President

Martin J. Graumann, Secretary

Identical or similar:
5-54B

Grace, Pembroke, Ont. Wm. Gustafson

3-55

To Delete Congregational Certification
for Lay Delegate

The lay delegates to the synodical conventions are no longer
elected by the congregations but rather by the Circuit meetings
from a list of candidates nominated by the congregations in the
Circuit. It would seem therefore that it would no longer be
necessary to require lay credentials signed by officers of the
congregations. The commission therefore recommends that
the last sentence of Bylaw 1.59 be deleted: ‘In addition, every
lay delegate shall present credentials supplied by the synodical
Secretary and signed by the pastor and two officers of the con-
gregation.”

Commission on Constitutional Matters
Herbert Mueller, Secretary

3-56A

To Provide for Student Participation
in Synodical Conventions

WHEREAS, Most students of the colleges and seminaries of
The Lutheran Church -— Missouri Synod have little opportunity
to participate on a regular basis in the affairs of their home
congregations: and

WHEREAS, This inability to participate deprives students
of a voice in the affairs of the Synod, especially as it meets in
convention: and

WHEREAS, At present the students of these colleges and
seminaries cannot participate responsibly in the decision-
making process of the Synod (‘responsible participation” de-
fined as: (1) the right of the student bodies of all colleges and
seminaries of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod to present
overtures directly to the church in convention: (2) the right of
these student bodies to send advisory delegates to the church
in convention): and

WHEREAS, Most students desire to participate in the de-
cision-making process in a responsible manner, especially as
such decisions concern the colleges and seminaries of The
Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod and the Synod at large:
therefore be it

Resolved, That Handbook Section 1.27 a 2, second paragraph,
be amended to read as follows:

Overtures to a convention of the Synod may be
submitted only by a member congregation of the
Synod: a convention or Board of Directors of a Dis-
trict, an official District pastoral or teachers con-
ference, the faculty of an educational institution of
the Synod, the student bodies of colleges and seminar-
ies of the Synod. a board or commission of the Synod
listed in Sections 2.03 and 2.05, or a committee estab-
lished by a prior convention: and be it further

Resolved, That Handbook Section 1.57 (Advisory Delegates)
be amended by means of the following addition:

Each 4-year college and seminary of the Synod shall