By the time the last of them adjourned late May 25, they had boiled it all down to fewer than 100. The overtures that were addressed by the committees came from congregations, districts, pastoral conferences, boards and other synodical entities. The floor committee on missions also offers a resolution to consider changing the Synod's name. If the resolution is adopted, it would begin a process designed to bring a recommendation to the next convention, in 2001.
Several resolutions deal with issues related to worship.
Theology and Church Relations Committee 3 had to address the most overtures, 151. It developed 28 resolutions for convention consideration. The Ingrian church already last fall declared altar and pulpit fellowship with the Synod. It says the district resolution is contrary to the resolutions of the Synod. Although the resolution does not cite a proposed Lutheran Africa-American hymnal supplement, portions of which were rejected by doctrinal reviewers, that project did raise issues related to culture and theology.