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Today’s S Business U N 7/10 Issue 2 – Part 1 Morning Session 8:00 Matins 8:45 Preparation for Opening Business Session Sunday, July 10 8:55 Convention Opening and Presentation of Gavel 9:00 Electronic Voting System 9:20 Registration, Credentials, and Elections (#19) Table of Contents 9:25 Standing Rules 9:40 Convention Schedule 9:50 President’s Report (Part 3) Letters of Greeting 10:20 Welcome and greetings from local representatives 10:25 Welcome and greetings from South Wisconsin District Mayoral Welcome ......................... 204 10:30 Convention Essay—Upon This Rock: Repent, Confess, Rejoice Presidents Emeriti.......................... 205 11:00 International Mission (#2) Entities ........................................... 207 11:35 National Mission (#1) Church Bodies ............................... 216 12:00 Recess Afternoon Session 1:30 Midday Prayer—Rev. Nabil Nour 1:55 Registration, Credentials, and Elections (#19) 2:00 Response from Newly Elected President 2:05 Registration, Credentials, and Elections (#19) 2:10 Presentation of slates and balloting for - First Vice-President 2:20 - Central Regional Vice-President 2:30 - East-Southeast Regional Vice-President 2:40 - Great Lakes Regional Vice-President 2:50 - Great Plains Regional Vice-President 3:00 - West-Southwest Regional Vice-President 3:10 Election to determine ranking of vice-presidents 3:20 Floor Nominations for Secretary of the Synod 3:40 Omnibus Resolution A 3:50 Routes to Ministry (#13) Introduction 4:20 Reformation (#15) 4:45 Mercy (#3) 5:30 Evening Prayer 6:00 Recess 7:30 LCEF Ice Cream Social (Ballroom, 1st floor) 66th Regular Convention Pages 1 – 202, First Issue The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Milwaukee, WI - July 9-14, 2016 Mayoral Welcome 204 | Page S Presidents Emeriti U N 7/10 205 | Page 206 | Page S Entities U N 7/10 207 | Page 208 | Page S U N 7/10 209 | Page 210 | Page S U N 7/10 211 | Page 212 | Page S U N 7/10 213 | Page 214 | Page S U N 7/10 215 | Page Church Bodies Inter-Church Relationships of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod In the triennium just now coming to an end, the inter-church relationships of the LCMS have been growing by leaps and bounds. In addition to our growing family of official “Partner Church” bodies with which the LCMS enjoys altar and pulpit fellowship, the LCMS also has a growing number of church bodies with which we collaborate in various ways, but with which we do not yet have altar and pulpit fellowship (we might unofficially call these “Allied Church” bodies). We presently have thirty official partnerships that have already been recognized by the LCMS in convention (some of long standing) and an additional seven partnerships to be considered for official declarations of altar and pulpit fellowship by this convention. We also enjoy positive and growing relationships with an additional twenty-one of these “Allied Church” bodies, many of which are in various stages of altar and pulpit fellowship talks with the LCMS. In addition, the LCMS also has what we might call “Emerging Relationships” with six Lutheran church bodies that we are getting to know, but with which we do not yet have a formal relationship. Most of these have approached the LCMS out of a desire to share our solid, Biblical theology. These various relationships make for a total of 70 Lutheran church relationships in a total of 55 countries! Lastly, the LCMS also has a growing number of “Ecumenical Relationships” with non-Lutheran church bodies for the sake of dialog and cooperatio in externis. Partner Churches (already recognized by the LCMS in convention) 1. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina 2. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil 3. Lutheran Church—Canada 4. Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Denmark 5. Evangelical Lutheran Church—Synod of France 6. Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (Germany) 7. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana 8. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti 9. Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod 10. India Evangelical Lutheran Church 11. Japan Lutheran Church 12. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya 13. Lutheran Church in Korea 14. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia 15. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Liberia 16. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania 17. Lutheran Synod of Mexico 18. Lutheran Church of Nigeria 19. Gutnius Lutheran Church (Papua New Guinea) 20. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Paraguay 21. Lutheran Church in the Philippines 22. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria (Russia) 23. Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church (Russia) 24. Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (South Africa) 25. Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa 26. Lanka Lutheran Church (Sri Lanka) 27. China Evangelical Lutheran Church (Taiwan) 28. Lutheran Church of Togo 29. Evangelical Lutheran Church of England 30. The American Association of Lutheran Churches (USA) 216 | Page S Partner Churches to Be Received at This Convention 1. Confessional Lutheran Church of Chile U 2. Lutheran Church in Guatemala 3. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan 4. Lutheran Church in Norway N 5. Portuguese Evangelical Lutheran Church 6. Lutheran Church of Uruguay 7/10 7. Lutheran Church of Venezuela Allied Churches 1. Lutheran Church of Australia 2. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium 3. Evangelical Christian Lutheran Church of Bolivia 4. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cambodia 5. Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic 6. Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (Czech Republic) 7. Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus 8. Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland 9. Indonesian Lutheran Christian Church 10. Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan 11. Malagasy Lutheran Church (Madagascar) 12. Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua 13. Evangelical Lutheran Diocese in Norway 14. Evangelical Lutheran Church—Peru 15. Lutheran Mission in Africa—Synod of Thousand Hills (Rwanda) 16. Confessional Lutheran Church of South Africa 17. Mission Province in Sweden 18. Lutheran Church of East Africa (Tanzania) 19. Istanbul Lutheran Church (Turkey) 20. German Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Ukraine (DELKU) 21. The Lutheran Ministerium and Synod—USA 22. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Sudan / Sudan Emerging Relationships 1. Myanmar Lutheran Church (Burma) 2. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia 3. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Norway (DELK) 4. Norwegian Lutheran Mission 5. Lutheran Church in Singapore 6. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania--Southeast Lake Victoria Diocese 7. South Sudan Evangelical Lutheran Church Ecumenical Relationships 1. Roman Catholic Church (The Vatican) 2. North American Lutheran Church (NALC) 3. Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) 4. Anglican Church of South Sudan 217 | Page 218 | Page S U N 7/10 219 | Page 220 | Page S U N 7/10 221 | Page 222 | Page S U N 7/10 (Translation on following page) 223 | Page 224 | Page S U N 7/10 225 | Page 226 | Page S U N 7/10 227 | Page 228 | Page S U N 7/10 229 | Page 230 | Page S U N 7/10 231 | Page 232 | Page S U N 7/10 233 | Page 234 | Page S U N 7/10 235 | Page 236 | Page S U N 7/10 237 | Page 238 | Page S U N 7/10 239 | Page 240 | Page S U N 7/10 241 | Page 242 | Page S U N 7/10 243 | Page 244 | Page S U N 7/10 245 | Page 246 | Page S U N 7/10 247 | Page 248 | Page S U N 7/10 249 | Page 250 | Page S U N 7/10 251 | Page 252 | Page S U N 7/10 253 | Page 254 | Page S U N 7/10 255 | Page 256 | Page S U N 7/10 257 | Page 258 | Page S U N 7/10 259 | Page 260 | Page S U N 7/10 261 | Page 262 | Page S U N 7/10 263 | Page 264 | Page S U N 7/10 265 | Page .
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