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        April 8, 2010 .................... LCMSNews -- No. 33

Nominations announced for president, vice-presidents

The names of nominees for Synod president and first through fifth
vice-presidents who will be on the ballots for election at this summer's
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod convention have been announced.

Synod Secretary Dr. Raymond Hartwig released the names April 7.

The names on the ballots -- five each for president and first
vice-president, and 20 for second through fifth vice-presidents -- are
of those who received the most nominations from LCMS congregations, and
who agreed to stand for election.

>All must be ordained ministers.

Seventeen men received enough votes to be listed on the ballots for
president, first vice-president, or second through fifth
vice-presidents, but decided not to let their names stand.

For Synod president, the nominees are, in the order of nominations
received:

        

*       Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, 48, executive director of LCMS World
Relief and Human Care, 1,332 nominations.

        

*       Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, 67, incumbent president of the Synod,
755.

        

*       Rev. Herbert C. Mueller Jr., 56, president of the LCMS Southern
Illinois District, 503.

        

*       Dr. Carl C. Fickenscher II, 54, associate professor at Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., 5.

        

*       Dr. Daniel L. Gard, 56, professor at Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, 3.

On the ballot for first vice-president are the following, also in the
order of nominations received:

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>*      Rev. Herbert C. Mueller Jr., 809.

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>*      Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, 728.

        

*       Dr. William R. Diekelman, 63, incumbent first vice-president of
the Synod, 244.

        

*       Dr. Wallace R. Schulz, 65, evangelist with the Lutheran Heritage
Foundation, 240.

        

*       Dr. Jeffery Schrank, 47, executive pastor of Christ
Church-Lutheran, Phoenix, 112.

Of those receiving the highest number of nominating votes for the
offices of vice-presidents two through five, the following have given
their consent to serve, if elected:

        

*       Dr. John C. Wohlrabe Jr., 56, current third vice-president of
the Synod and pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, Geneseo, Ill., 800.

        

*       Dr. David L. Adams, 54, associate professor at Concordia
Seminary, St. Louis, 682.

        

*       Rev. Daniel Preus, 61, director of Luther Academy, St. Louis,
488.

        

*       Dr. Paul L. Maier, 79, current second vice-president of the
Synod and professor at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich.,
481.

        

*       Dr. Scott R. Murray, 51, senior pastor of Memorial Lutheran
Church and School, Houston, 436.

        

*       Dr. Dean Nadasdy, 62, current fourth vice-president of the Synod
and senior pastor of Woodbury Lutheran Church, Woodbury, Minn., 435.

        

*       Dr. David D. Buegler, 63, current fifth vice-president of the
Synod, 353.

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>*      Rev. Herbert C. Mueller Jr., 195.

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>*      Dr. Carl C. Fickenscher II, 161.

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>*      Dr. Wallace R. Schulz, 159.

        

*       Dr. Victor J. Belton, 56, pastor of Peace Lutheran Church,
Decatur, Ga., 134.

        

*       Rev. Luther C. Brunette, 55, senior pastor of Carmel Lutheran
Church, Carmel, Ind., 74.

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>*      Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, 45.

        

*       Dr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr., 47, professor and academic dean at
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, 44.

        

*       Dr. Dean O. Wenthe, 65, president of Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, 42.

        

*       Dr. Harold L. Senkbeil, 65, executive director for spiritual
care at Doxology: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel,
Brookfield, Wis., 36.

        

*       Rev. Clint K. Poppe, 51, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church, Lincoln, Neb., 35.

        

*       Rev. John Pless, 57, assistant professor at Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, 34.

        

*       Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus III, 57, executive vice-president of
Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Watertown, Wis., 32.

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>*      Dr. Daniel L. Gard, 30.

Each Synod congregation could nominate two ordained ministers for
president, two for first vice-president, and four for second through
fifth vice-presidents.

Nominations were received from 2,041 congregations, or 33.9 percent of
the Synod's 6,021 member congregations.

Nominations closed March 10.  The nominating ballots were tallied by the
St. Louis office of the accounting firm Brown Smith Wallace LLC.

The Synod's 64th Regular Convention is set for July 10-17 in Houston.
At the convention, additional nominations from the floor could be added
to the ballots for president, first vice-president, and second through
fifth vice-presidents.

More information on nominees for election at the convention will be
available in a biographical supplement to the 2010 Convention Workbook,
scheduled for mailing in late April to all ordained and commissioned,
rostered church workers; lay delegates and alternates; lay members of
boards and commissions; and lay teachers and lay ministers designated by
district presidents.

For more information about the upcoming convention, visit the convention
Web site at http://www.lcms.org/?13524.

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