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	May 21, 2003 .......................... LCMSNews -- No. 42

	Kansas elects Kohlmeier
	as new district president

	Delegates to the Kansas District convention, May 1-3 in Topeka,
elected a new district president -- Rev. Keith Kohlmeier of Wichita.
Kohlmeier, 50, was elected on the first ballot. He previously served as
the district's first vice president.

	Kohlmeier will be installed July 13 at Ascension Lutheran
Church, Wichita, where he has been senior pastor since 1990. He succeeds
Rev. Howard Patten, who is returning to parish ministry after serving
the maximum three terms as district president.

	Also elected were Rev. Ed Trost of Overland Park, Kan., first
vice president; Rev. David Meier of Humboldt, Kan., second vice
president; Rev. Robert Grimm of Alma, Kan., third vice president; and
Rev. Randall Jahnke of Dodge City, Kan., fourth vice president.

	Under the convention theme of "Christ Be My Vision," Synod
President Gerald Kieschnick described his "One Mission, One Message, One
People" initiative. Southeastern District President Arthur Scherer was
the convention essayist, leading delegates through a process titled "The
Church's Vision in a New Missionary Age."

	Delegates reaffirmed the Kansas District partnership with LCMS
World Mission to provide a minimum of $75,000 in support per year over
the next triennium, and affirmed the district's intention to sponsor the
translation of the "Book of Concord" into the Bandi language by the year
2009.

	Another resolution that was adopted seeks "to provide more
equitable representation and voting privileges at conventions" and "to
study other organizational matters." In adopting the resolution,
delegates voted to request the 2004 Synod convention to "direct the
Commission on Structure ... to study [the] Synod's voting and
organizational structure." The resolution also asks the Commission to
make recommendations for "reducing the size and number of synodical
boards and commissions, wherever possible," and "[determining] the best
method for selecting members, considering ways by which two or more
districts may share the services of individual staff members." Those
recommendations are to be shared with the Synod no later than one year
prior to the 2007 Synod convention.

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