Official Handbook Source Text
Handbook page 107
Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 107.
This page reproduces text from the 2023 LCMS Handbook for study and navigation. Readers should verify procedural, legal, parliamentary, or governance questions against the official LCMS Handbook and appropriate LCMS authorities.
Pre-Convention Publications
3.1.8 A Convention Workbook containing a convention manual, reports and
overtures, the names and congregations of all voting delegates, and other information shall be published under the editorship of the Secretary subject to approval of the President.
(a) The President shall also decide which of the matters accepted for presentation to and consideration by the convention shall be published in the Convention Workbook.
(b) The content of the Convention Workbook shall be posted on the Synod’s Website not later than 12 weeks prior to the opening date of the convention, with printed copies mailed to each delegate and alternate, all officers of the Synod, and members of boards, commissions, and councils.
(c) Any member of the Synod (congregation, ordained minister, commissioned minister) and any lay delegate to the convention wishing to express comments on reports and overtures in the Convention Workbook may submit them at least nine weeks prior to the convention to the Secretary of the Synod, who shall transmit them to the appropriate convention floor committee for consideration.
3.1.8.1 The content of the first issue of Today ’s Business containing the proposed
resolutions of the convention floor committees and other convention business shall be posted on the Synod’s Website, with printed copies mailed to all registered delegates of the convention and all officers of the Synod and members of boards, commissions, and councils.
(a) Responses to the proposed resolutions contained in the first issue of Today’s Business shall be submitted to the chairman of the appropriate floor committee at least one week prior to the convention.
(b) All floor committees shall meet at the convention site prior to the opening of the convention to review such responses and reconsider their proposed resolutions accordingly.
Convention Order
3.1.9 The President shall be responsible for the overall organization and
operations of the conventions of the Synod.
(a) The Chief Administrative Officer or the Chief Administrative Officer’s designee shall serve as the convention manager. He shall be responsible to the President for making arrangements for and directing the externals of the convention and other major assemblies of the Synod and may assist with planning and arranging for district conventions.
(1) The convention manager shall arrange for lodging and may also provide for joint meals while the convention is in session.
(2) Rates for lodging and joint meals shall be established and published.
(b) When necessary, the President in consultation with the convention manager may appoint a local convention chairman and a local convention committee to assist the convention manager.
