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Handbook page 198
Source: LCMS Handbook 2023, page 198.
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(a) He shall cause the resolutions of the Synod to be implemented in the district, encouraging the congregations and schools to embrace the mission and ministry emphases adopted by the national convention for the triennium.
(b) He shall regularly report to the President of the Synod.
(c) He shall serve the congregations of the district as liaison between the congregations, district, and the Synod.
4.4.3 The Synod shall be represented, in connection with all ordinations,
commissionings, and installations, by the president of the district that will have ecclesiastical supervision of the worker being ordained, commissioned, or installed (see Bylaw section 2.12).
(a) An ordained or commissioned minister shall be installed into each called position, whether for full- or part-time service.
(b) Each installation shall be authorized by the appropriate district president and conducted, in accordance with forms and practices developed by the Synod for that purpose, by the district president or by an ordained minister designated by the district president.
(c) The requirements of Bylaw 2.10.2 (a) shall be satisfied before a worker is ordained or commissioned and initially installed in a first call.
(d) Authorization for the ordination or commissioning and /or installation of an ordained or commissioned minister for foreign service, other than to a foreign member congregation, shall be provided by the appropriate district president upon the request of the Board for International Mission.
(e) Authorization for the ordination or commissioning and /or installation of a Synod-called non-foreign specialized minister shall be provided by the appropriate district president upon the request of the Board for National Mission.
4.4.4 The district president shall, in accordance with the Constitution of the
Synod, in his ministry of ecclesiastical supervision visit the congregations of the district.
(a) He shall arrange in advance for an official visit to each congregation of his district at least once every three years and otherwise as he deems it necessary. He may call upon the circuit visitors and vice -presidents to assist him with the triennial visita tion of congregations.
(b) In his official visits he shall seek to bring about to the greatest possible degree the achievement of the Synod’s objectives as expressed in Article III of its Constitution.
(c) He shall conduct his official visits in an evangelical manner.
(d) He shall come to the pastor and the congregation as a brotherly advisor, reminding them of the joy of serving in the mission and ministry of the church.
(e) In his visits he shall include fraternal discussion in regard to worship and communion attendance; participation by the congregation in missions and the work of the church at large; the congregation’s evangelism and education endeavors; its cultivation of sound stewardship principles; all aspects of compensation for
