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 overture 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 …