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Handbook page 115
Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 115.
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boards and serves as a voting member of the Board of Directors of the Synod and the Board of Directors of Concordia Publishing House).
(1) The President ’s representative shall normally be a member of the Administrative Team.
(2) The President shall, in reasonable time, receive notice of such meetings, the proposed agenda, and minutes thereof.
(e) Prior to his appointment of an executive director of a mission office, he shall engage in consultation with the appropriate mission board to reach concurrence on a slate of candidates for the position.
(f) He shall engage in consultation with the governing board of each synodwide corporate entity to reach mutual concurrence on a slate of candidates for appointment to the position of chief executive.
(g) As ecclesiastical supervisor, he shall provide leadership to all officers, agencies, and national office staff of the Synod.
(h) Through the Chief Mission Officer, he shall supervise the duties listed in Bylaws 3.4.3– 3.4.3.8.
(i) He shall consult with the vi ce-presidents, as elected adviso rs, whenever important and difficult Synod, inter -Lutheran, and partner church questions arise.
(j) He shall establish the duties and responsibilities of the First Vice - President in consultation with the First Vice-President.
(k) He shall make an official report at each meeting of the Synod in convention.
(l) He shall approve the draft of the Convention Proceedings before it is published by the Secretary of the Synod.
(m) He shall have the right to authorize the vice-presidents to perform the duties of his office and hold them responsible for their performance. Accountability, however, shall always remain with the President.
(n) He shall exercise executive power when the affairs of the Synod demand it and when he has been expressly invested with such power by the Synod in convention.
(o) He shall be authorized, in the event that the affairs of the Synod require the exercise of executive power for a purpose for which there is no specific directive of the Synod, to exercise such power after consultation with the vice -presidents, the Board of Directors of the Synod, or the Council of Presidents, whichever in his judgment is most appropriate. Any member of the Synod shall have the right to appeal such action to the Commission on Constitutional Matters and/or the Synod in convention, whichever is appropriate. The Lutheran Church Extension Fund— Missouri Synod is exempt from this bylaw.
(p) He shall in the interval between meetings of the Synod in convention appoint special boards or committees whenever the purpose for which the Synod has been orga nized requires or when conditions arising in the course of time demand such action.
Inability to Serve
3.3.1.4 When the President is unable to serve, the duties and responsibilities of the
Office of President shall be assumed by the First Vice-President.
