To Amend Bylaw 3.6.1.8 (c) to Clarify That Two-Thirds Synod Member Approval Requirement for Synodwide Corporate Entity Governing Document Amendments Is Based on Members Actually Present at Meeting

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To Amend Bylaw 3.6.1.8 (c) to Clarify  
That Two-Thirds Synod Member Approval 
Requirement for Synodwide Corporate Entity 
Governing Document Amendments Is Based on 
Members Actually Present at Meeting 
WHEREAS, The board of trustees of the LCMS Foundation has 
reviewed the convention overture submitted by LCEF “To Amend 
Bylaws 3.6.1.8 (c) and 3.6.4 (a) to Clarify that Two- Thirds 
Approval Requirements for Synodwide Corporate Entity and 
Lutheran Church Extension Fund Governing Document 
Amendments are Based on Members Actually Present at Meeting”; 
and 
WHEREAS, The LCMS Foundation has determined that as a 
synodwide corporate entity, the Foundation is also challenged by 
the issues raised in the aforementioned o verture as contained in 
Synod Bylaw 3.6.1.8 (c)  and wishes to express its support for the 
proposed change, so far as it applies to the LCMS Foundation ; 
therefore be it 
Resolved, That Bylaw 3.6.1.8 (c) be amended as follows: 
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING 
3.6 Synodwide Corporate Entities 
General Principles 
… 
3.6.1.8 Each synodwide corporate entity shall provide in its 
governing instruments 
… 
(c) a provision that any amendments to a provision of its 
governing instruments which relate to its objects and purposes, 
the designating of its members, or the procedure for amending its 
governing instruments shall require a two-thirds affirmative vote 
of its members present at such meeting, if any, who are appointed 
by the Board of Directors of the Synod; and 
…  
Board of Trustees 
LCMS Foundation 
Ov.