Another DP uses his office to campaign for the “Missional List” (by Pr. Charles Henrickson)
In recent days we have seen reports of district presidents using the power and resources of their office to campaign for one candidate…
In recent days we have seen reports of district presidents using the power and resources of their office to campaign for one candidate…
St. Louis, July 20-25, 2013 The first issue of Today’s Business is now online. This is about a week earlier than I, for…
To go with this summer’s LCMS Convention theme, Baptized for This Moment: A Bible Study, is being made available for free through the…
St. Louis, July 20-25, 2013 The 2013 Convention Workbook is now out! It was posted online yesterday and will be arriving in the…
St. Louis, July 20-25 Today the nominees were announced for LCMS President, First Vice-President, regional vice-presidents, and regional Board of Director lay members….
At the 2010 Convention in Houston, there was a proposed resolution, Res. 8-30 “To Amend Article VI of the Constitution,” which would have…
[On Sunday the following overtures were adopted, unanimously, both by my congregation and our circuit forum, to be submitted to the LCMS Convention…
[On Sunday the following overture was adopted, unanimously, both by my congregation and our circuit forum, to be submitted to the LCMS Convention…
St. Louis, July 20-25 In early October all LCMS congregations were sent a mailing from the Office of the Secretary containing Official Nominations…
St. Louis, July 20-25, 2013 SUBMITTING CONVENTION OVERTURES 1. What is an “overture”? An overture would be comparable to a motion made at…
St. Louis, July 20-25, 2013 This Monday, October 15, Secretary Hartwig will be testing the e-mail system for the LCMS presidential vote in…
St. Louis, July 20-25, 2013 In a previous post, “Convention 2013: Electing delegates, by October 20,” I outlined the steps for electing delegates…
It’s that time again, time to prepare for the LCMS national convention. The convention will be held in St. Louis July 20-25, 2013, but there are a number of things that need to take place before then, especially these: electing delegates; nominating for various boards, commissions, etc.; nominating for synod president and vice-presidents; and submitting overtures. (Electing the synod president also will take place, oddly enough, before the convention. That’s a new procedure we’ll explain at another time.)
[I was curious to see how the last of the 35 district conventions was going, so I went to the CID website and…
On Sunday, June 17, the 95th annual convention of the ELS began in traditional fashion, with an afternoon Synod Sunday service, following the…
The MNS Convention started conducting business today. The elections went to the Mission Vision MNS candidates, with Rev. Dr. Dean Nadasdy elected District…
The ongoing struggle over ULC, showing the deepening divisions in our Synod has a new document. ULC has released a critical evaluation…
(LCA just released the January 2012 issue of the Lutheran Clarion. We are pleased to post articles on the BJS website from one…
One of the things that are needed are overture submissions from churches or circuit forums; they must be submitted by a specific date…
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog: As conventions season approaches, we are faced with a bit of a Synod-wide…
Found on the Witness, Mercy, Life Together blog — Some of us remember life together on school playgrounds when different games overlapped with…
From the LCMS Reporter: Synod Secretary Dr. Raymond L. Hartwig announced March 17 that two amendments to the church body’s Constitution that were…
Newly posted at the Reporter at lcms.org is news of the Council of Presidents adopting a plan of five geographic regions for elections…
On Sunday, March 6, at a special voters’ assembly, our congregation will be voting on two proposed amendments to the Constitution of our…
In our upcoming Voter’s Assembly (2-27-11), we will have a rare opportunity to respond to the actions of the 2010 National LCMS Convention,…