After Convention Activity

Minutes from the 61st Northern Illinois District Convention March 7-8, 2025

Resolutions Approved at Convention (Combined) updated 4/8/2025

Installation Services

Join your sister congregations as we celebrate our life together and receive encouragement in our calling as Lutheran Christians. Special joint hour long services will be held on May 18, 2025 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 310 E. Main St., East Dundee, IL 60118 at 2:00 p.m. and at Bethany Lutheran Church 1550 Modaff Rd., Naperville, IL 60565 at 5:00 p.m. on that same day.

The services will include the Installation of our LCMS Northern Illinois District, President Rev. Dr Allan R. Buss, our District Vice Presidents, and other officers, and will include music, a special sermon by Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast, President Emeritus of Concordia Seminary, Ft Wayne, and the presence of LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison. This uplifting service will be followed by light refreshments and the opportunity to connect with other church members and leaders.

We want to encourage ordained workers, commissioned workers, and lay leaders to join us for these services as we rejoice that we are “Stronger Together: Co-Workers for the Kingdom of God.”

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Today’s Business

Today’s Business March 4, 2025 (Combined)

• Workbook Section I Convention Information – Replace standing rules and tentative schedule
• Workbook Section III Elections – Replace Board of Directors ballot
• Workbook Section IV Nominations – Add bio
• Workbook Section VIII Delegates – Replace report
• Resolutions – Replace Resolution 3-05A
• Other – Add
  • Exhibitors
  • Sponsors (PDF with clickable links)
  • Acknowledgements

Today’s Business February 21, 2025 (Combined)

• Workbook Section I Convention Information – Replace tentative schedule
• Workbook Section II Worship – Add
• Workbook Section III Elections – Replace page
• Workbook Section IV Nominations – Replace updated pages
• Workbook Section V Overtures – Replace page
• Workbook Section VI Reports – Add/replace reports
• Workbook Section VII Roster changes – Add/replace pages
• Workbook Section VIII Delegates – Replace report
• Resolutions – Replace

Today’s Business January 18, 2025 (Combined)

• Overtures – Workbook Section V
• Delegates – Workbook Section VIII (updated January 15, 2025)
• Resolutions

Convention Workbook

Workbook Sections:

1. Convention Information (combined)
2. Worship (This will be sent out with Today’s Business)
3. Elections
4. Nominations
5. Overtures
6. Reports
7. Rosters of changes and anniversaries
8. Delegates

Convention Offering – Workers of the Word: Today + Tomorrow

The Convention offering will support Workers of the Word: Today + Tomorrow (Today – supporting worker wellness and care, including emergency assistance; Tomorrow – offering scholarship assistance for church work students at Concordia Universities and LCMS Seminaries).

Convention Bible Verse – Colossians 4:7-17  ESV

Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him), and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis. Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas. Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea. And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”