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Handbook page 122
Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 122.
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(e) serve, if the board’s representation is not otherwise designated, as a nonvoting member of the governing boards of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod Foundation, The Lutheran Church Extension Fund— Missouri Synod, Concordia Publishing House, Concordia University System, the Board of Trustees — Concordia Plans (Board of Directors— Concordia Plan Services ), and on the investment committee of the Concordia Plans and Concordia Plan Services;
(f) keep on file a correct list of all devises and bequests that directly or indirectly have been given to corporate Synod. Legacies and bequests made to other agencies of the Synod shall be reported annually to the Chief Financial Officer as part of the audit process;
(g) report regularly to the Synod through an official periodical and at every meeting of the Synod in convention on the performance of his/her office;
(h) be authorized to borrow in the name of the Synod, provided its Board of Directors has first determined the amounts and conditions under which such moneys shall be borrowed;
(1) instruments relative to such borrowing shall require two signatures:
(2) one shall be the Chief Financial Officer and the other shall be another officer of the Synod designated by the Board of Directors of the Synod;
(i) at any time submit to an audit of official books and accounts when so ordered by the Synod or its Board of Directors; and
(j) perform such other work as the Synod in convention, the President, or the Board of Directors of the Synod may assign.
3.4.1.4 The Chief Financial Officer shall work together closely with the Chief
Administrative Officer and the Chief Mission Officer in carrying out the programmatic, administrative, and financial functions of the national Synod.
Chief Administrative Officer
3.4.2 The Chief Administrative Officer shall assist the Board of Directors of the
Synod in carrying out the responsibilities given to it by the Constitution, Bylaws, and resolutions of the Synod.
3.4.2.1 The Chief Administrative Officer shall be an officer of the Synod and shall
be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Synod in consultation and mutual concurrence with the President of the Synod.
3.4.2.2 The Chief Administrative Officer shall serve a three-year renewable term of
office during which he/she shall serve at the direction of the Board of Directors.
(a) He/she may serve an unlimited number of terms.
(b) Each reappointment shall be with the mutual concurrence of the President and the Board of Directors of the Synod.
3.4.2.3 The Chief Administrative Officer shall work together closely with the Chief
Financial Officer and the Chief Mission Officer in carrying out the programmatic, administrative, and financial functions of the national Synod.
