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LCMS 2026 Convention Workbook: Reports and Overtures, PDF page 14
10-06 To Safeguard Evangelical Ecclesiastical Supervision and District Judgments .....................503 10-07 To Establish an Independent Appeals Panel in Cases involving the President’s Decisions ......504 10-08 To Require Greater Transparency When Disciplinary Judgments Are Reversed .................504 10-09 To Provide Pastoral Care for Congregations Affected by Major Disciplinary Actions ..............505 10-10 To Study Ecclesiastical Supervision in Light of Lutheran Confessions ......................................505 10-11 To Amend Bylaw 4.4.6 (c) to Require Reporting All Complaints to Subjects .................506 10-12 To Amend Bylaw Section 2.14 to Address How Public Sin Is Handled by Dispute Resolution Process ...............................................506 10-13 To Replace Dispute Resolution Process with Biblical, Workable, and Effective System for Ecclesiastical Supervision ..............................507 10-14 To Replace Dispute Resolution Process with Biblical, Workable, and Effective System for Ecclesiastical Supervision ..............................508 10-15 To Provide Scriptural Reforms to Dispute Resolution Process ...............................................509 10-16 To Provide Scriptural Reforms to Dispute Resolution Process ...............................................510 10-17 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.2 to Render Dispute Resolution Non-Exclusive Remedy .....................510 10-18 To Require No One to Participate in the Dispute Resolution Process ........................511 10-19 To Allow Parties to Delay Hearing to Await Commission Opinion ...........................................511 10-20 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.18.1 (g) to Allow Parties to Record Proceedings ..............................511 10-21 To Direct Revisions to Bylaw Section 1.10 Standard Operating Procedures Manual re Witnesses and Evidence ...................................512 10-22 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.7.4 to Allow Advisors to Represent Parties in Dispute Resolution Process .................................................................513 10-23 To Amend Bylaw 1.10.10.1 to Provide for Reconciler Reviews ........................................513 10-24 To Request Council of Presidents to Clarify Circumstances of Called Worker Removal or Resignation ......................................................513 10-25 To Request Council of Presidents to Clarify Circumstances of Called Worker Removal or Resignation from Roster ..................................514 10-26 To Amend Bylaw 2.13.3.2 to Make Restriction Appeals Public Record and to Allow Further Review .................................................................514 10-27 To Standardize and Strengthen Response to Rostered Worker Sexual Abuse .......................515 10-28 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical Investigations and Strengthen Response to Clergy Sexual Misconduct/Abuse ....................515 10-29 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical Investigations and Strengthen Response to Clergy Sexual Misconduct/Abuse ....................516 10-30 To Require Completion of Ecclesiastical Investigations and Strengthen Response to Sexual Misconduct/Abuse by Rostered Church Workers ...................................................517 10-31 To Certify Accuracy and Trustworthiness of Call Documents ...............................................518 10-32 To Allow Pastors to Opt Out of Pre-Call Interviews and/or Contact ....................................519 10-33 To Amend Bylaw 2.10.3 to Allow District Presidents to Share Issues prior to Installation ....519 10-34 To More Directly Oversee Service of Ordained Ministers to Congregations to Which They Have No Formal Call ...........................................520 10-35 To Encourage Pastors to Honor Their Own Call .......................................................................520 10-36 To Call for Publication of Council of Presidents Manual .................................................................520 10-37 To Provide Compensation for Circuit Visitors ....520 10-38 To Amend Bylaw 2.11.2.2 (c) regarding Candidate Reporting ............................................520 10-39 To Amend Bylaw 2.11.2.2 (c) regarding Candidate Reporting ............................................521 Correction in Registration Listing ...............................523 PAGE PAGE 2026 Convention Workbook