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LCMS 2026 Convention Workbook: Reports and Overtures, PDF page 13

9-20 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.2 (a) to Change Size  
Requirements for Electoral Circuits .....................477
9-21 To Amend Bylaw Subsection 3.12.2 to Restore 
Presidential Election to Convention
 .....................477
9-22 To Amend Bylaw Subsection 3.12.2 to Restore 
Presidential Election to Convention
 .....................479
9-23 To Affirm Regional Selection  
of Board Members ...............................................480
9-24 To Create Task Force to Develop Overture for 
Change in Regional Vice-President Selection
 .....480
9-25 To Amend Bylaws to Allow Regional  
Delegates to Select Regional Vice-Presidents .....481
9-26 To Develop Overture for Change in Regional  
Vice-President Selection
 ......................................481
9-27 To Appoint Task Force to Improve District 
Representation on Synod Boards, Boards  
of Regents, and Commissions
 ..............................482
9-28 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4.1 to Limit Terms  
of Office for President, First Vice-President, 
Regional Vice-Presidents, and Secretary
 .............483
9-29 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4.1 to Establish Term  
Limits for Elected Synod Officers
 .......................483
9-30 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4 to Establish Term Limits  
for Synod President and Vice-Presidents
 .............484
9-31 To Give Commissioned Ministers the 
Franchise and To Study Equal Lay and Clergy  
Representation on Boards and Other Bodies
 .......484
9-32 To Amend Constitution Article XII 10 a  
to Provide Option of Appointing Ordained  
or Commissioned Minister as District  
Convention Rostered Voting Delegate
 ................484
9-33 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.2 to Expand the Number  
of Circuit Delegates to Synod Conventions  
and to Include Ministers of Religion— 
Commissioned
 ......................................................485
9-34 To Strengthen Convention Participation 
of Ministers of Religion—Commissioned
 ...........485
9-35 To Strengthen Nonvoting Advisory Role  
of Commissioned Ministers at Synod  
Conventions
 .........................................................486
9-36 To Amend Bylaws to Eliminate Ability  
of Circuit Forum to Submit Overtures
 .................486
9-37 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.6.2 to Allow Pastoral  
Circuit Meetings and Teacher Groups  
to Submit Overtures
 .............................................487
9-38 To Amend the Bylaws to Require Sixty-Percent 
Affirmative Vote for All Non-Election  
Matters
 .................................................................487
9-39 To Bring Resolutions with Strong District  
Support to Convention Floor
 ................................488
9-40 To Create Process for Initiatives and  
Referenda
 .............................................................488
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9-41 To Provide Clarity about Amendments 
to Resolutions .......................................................488
9-42 To Change to Four-Year Convention Cycle ........488
9-43 To Amend Const. Art. VIII A 1 to Change 
to Four-Year Convention Cycle
 ...........................489
9-44 To Amend Bylaw 4.2.2 to Grant Lay Vote  
to Every Congregation at District Conventions
 ...489
9-45 To Permit Majority Voting in Electronic  
Decisions for Synod Boards and Agencies
 ..........489
9-46 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
 ............490
9-47 To Amend Bylaw 3.6.4.3 to Clarify That All 
Lutheran Church Extension Fund Voting  
Directors are Elected and To Add That No  
More Than Two Such Directors Can Be  
from the Same District
 .........................................490
9-48 To Affirm and Use Biblical Terminology 
concerning Ministry
 .............................................491
9-49 To Clarify Multipoint
 and Multicampus  
Parish ...................................................................494
9-50 To Adopt Dual Title of Bishop and President
  
for District Presidents ...........................................494
9-51 To Authorize Title Bishop
 for Synod President  
and District Presidents .........................................495
9-52 To Declare Commission on Constitutional Matters 
Unconstitutional and Void All Its Opinions
 ........495
10. Ecclesiastical Supervision  
and Dispute Resolution
Reports
R1, R2, R3–R4.1, R9, R21–R55, R61, R62.12
Overtures
10-01 To Encourage Visitation by Synod  
and District
 ...........................................................497
10-02 To Develop Guidelines for Ecclesiastical 
Supervision of Internet Accusations
 ....................499
10-03 To Address Use of Named or Anonymous  
Social Media Accounts to Create Strife  
and Division within the Church
 ...........................501
10-04 To Request Theological and Pastoral Statement  
and Bylaw Review regarding Social Media, 
Partisan Media, and Eighth Commandment  
in Ecclesiastical Proceedings
 ...............................502
10-05 To Uphold Eighth Commandment in Digital 
Communication and Ecclesiastical  
Proceedings
 ..........................................................502
2026 Convention Workbook