RESOLUTION 11-17
Overtures 11-25, 11-28 (CW, pp. 394, 396)
WHEREAS, Bylaw 3.1.4.1 (a) states, �Each board or commission shall be represented [at Synod conventions] by 54 its chairman or another board or commission member and by its principal staff person�; and
WHEREAS, Bylaw 3.8.2.4 states, �In carrying out its mission responsibilities, the Office of National Mission 2 shall receive its primary focus from the mission and ministry emphases developed triennially by the national Synod 3 in convention and from the policies developed and determined by the Board for National Mission�; and
WHEREAS, Bylaw 3.8.3.4 states, �In carrying out its mission responsibilities, the Office of International Mission shall receive its primary focus from the mission and ministry emphases developed triennially by the national Synod in convention and from the policies developed and determined by the Board for International Mission�; and
WHEREAS, Bylaw 3.4.3.1 states, �The Chief Mission Officer (CMO) shall provide staff and other resource(s) to the Board for National Mission and the Board for International Mission�; and
WHEREAS, Bylaw 3.8.2.3 states, �The Office of National Mission implements the policies of the Board for National Mission under the supervision of the CMO and shall be responsible for domestic ministries that especially serve congregations and schools through the districts of the Synod� and Bylaw 3.8.3.3 states, �The Office of International Mission implements the policies of the Board for International Mission under the supervision of the CMO and shall be responsible for the work of the Synod in foreign countries�; and
WHEREAS, The executive directors of the mission offices are directly accountable to the CMO and the President for implementing Synod programs that align with the policies of the mission boards; and
WHEREAS, Both the President and the Boards for National and International Mission recognize the important role played by both the CMO and the executive directors of the Offices of National and International Mission at the Synod conventions and floor committee meetings and have recommended that the Bylaws be revised to enable the executive directors of the Offices of National and International Mission to serve as advisory representative at Synod conventions; and
WHEREAS, The Boards for National and International Mission have previously made use of Bylaw 3.1.4.1 (c) (�Other exceptions must have the approval of the Board of Directors of the Synod prior to each convention�) to request that the executive directors of the Offices of National and International Mission be designated as an advisory representative of the Board for International Mission to the 2013 and 2016 Synod conventions; and
WHEREAS, The Board of Directors of the Synod has responded to the aforementioned requests and approved the granting of exceptions allowing the Boards for National and International Mission to designate the executive directors of the Offices of National and International Mission as an advisory representatives of the respective boards at the 2013 and 2016 Synod conventions, in accordance with 2013 Bylaw 3.1.4.1 (c); therefore be it
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING
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