2004 Synod Assembly

Resolution 2004-04: Recommended Amendments to the Synod Constitution

Passed

WHEREAS, the 2003 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recommended the following amendments; and,

WHEREAS, recommended amendments to the Constitution for Synods may be adopted by the Synod Assembly on a  majority vote at one assembly under †S18.12; and,

WHEREAS, the Southeastern Minnesota Synod Council recommends these amendments;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the following amendments be adopted to the Constitution of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod:

S7.27. This synod may establish processes through the Synod Council to grant an ordained minister from a church body with which a relationship of full communion has been declared and established by the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America the privilege of both voice and vote in the Synod Assembly during the period of that ordained minister's service in a congregation of this church.

S7.2728. Duly elected voting members of the Synod Council who are not otherwise voting members of the Synod Assembly under †S7.21. shall be granted the privilege of both voice and vote as members of the Synod Assembly.

Submitted by the Southeastern Minnesota Synod Council, Shirley Gangstad, Vice President

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