To Certify Accuracy and Trustworthiness of Call Documents

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To Certify Accuracy and Trustworthiness  
of Call Documents 
WHEREAS, The Synod C onstitution states the following as 
objectives of the Synod: 
• to “provide evangelical supervision, counsel, and care for 
pastors, teachers, and other professional church workers of 
the Synod in the performance of their official duties” (Const. 
Art. III 8); and 
• to “provide protection for congregations, pastors, teachers, 
and other church workers in the performance of their official 
duties and the maintenance of their rights ” (Const. Art. III 
9); and 
• to “aid in providing for the welfare of pastors, teachers, and 
other church workers, and their families in the event  of 
illness, disability, retirement, special need, or death” (Const. 
Art. III 10);  
and 
W
HEREAS, The Constitution defines membership in the Synod as 
follows: “membership in the Synod is held and may be acquired by 
congregations and individuals, ministers of religion—ordained and 
ministers of religion— commissioned, of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church who confess and accept the confessional basis of Article II” 
(Const. Art. V), and “all organized congregations that have joined 
the Synod hold voting membership ” (Const. Art. V A), and 
“individual members of the Synod, who are  nonvoting except for 
those pa stors exercising the vote of a member congregation and 
installed to a  member congregation, are the following : 1. Pastors, 
ordained ministers, called and installed to a member congregation,” 
etc. (Const. Art. V B; Const. Art V B 1); and 
WHEREAS, The Constitution obligates the respective district 
president, to “ sign all examination papers and certificates of 
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