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Would You Like To Be A Lay Delegate To
The 2004 LCMS Convention?
By: Rev. Jack Cascione |
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Would you like to be a lay delegate to the 2004 LCMS
Convention?
Circuit Forums are now selecting one lay delegate and one pastoral
delegate
from each Circuit to the 2004 LCMS Convention.
If you are selected, the circuit will pay your expenses to the 2004
Convention in St. Louis.
Each congregation is entitled to send one lay delegate and one pastoral
delegate to the Circuit Forum. The Circuit Counselor is the Chairman
of the
Circuit Forum. A pastor and a lay delegate from each congregation
vote for
the pastoral and lay delegate who will represent their circuit at the LCMS
Convention.
There are no provisions in the 2001 LCMS Handbook (pages 32-33) as to how
a
congregation selects its lay delegate to the Circuit Forum.
If your Voters' Assembly has not selected a lay delegate, ask your pastor
or
congregational president whom the lay delegate is and how the lay delegate
was selected by the congregation. You may tell your pastor or
congregational president that you would like to be the lay delegate to the
Circuit Forum.
Many of the Circuit Forums do not have a lay delegate present from each
congregation because the lay people don't know they can attend, or aren't
invited, or don't know when and where the Circuit Forum is held.
Act quickly, because most of the Circuit Forums are meeting in September.
Your Pastor must tell you whom the congregational lay delegate is from
your
congregation and how the delegate was selected.
Your Circuit Counselor must tell you when and where the Circuit Forum will
be held.
Even if you are not a lay delegate you can go the Circuit Forum and ask
what
potential pastoral and lay delegates believe about the issues facing the
Synod and whom they want for LCMS President.
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September 7, 2003 |