The Southeastern District Convention is coming up! This year we are half online, May 5-7, and the other half we are in person, May 8-9. This web page will stay up to date with the all the information you need to prepare and stay in the know!
2025 Convention Workbook
Several sections of the SED Workbook of the 2025 SED convention are posted below, in accordance with SED bylaws. Make sure to read them as you prepare for our upcoming convention.
Tentative Agenda
Greetings & Speakers
Convention Rules and Procedures
Nominated Candidates
Overtures & All Nominations (updated 3/13/25)
Bylaws
Registration is Now Open!
Convention Registration
$200.00 per voting pastoral and lay delegate
$150.00 per advisory delegate
$125.00 per guest/spouse
The price will increase by $75.00 on March 31st
Book Your Hotel Before April 9
DoubleTree by Hilton in Richmond, VA
You are not required to stay at this hotel, but we have made a group rate of $159.00 per night available for you.
You can either click the button to book online or click the call link below to call and book your room.
If you are only booking a hotel room for Thursday night, on the 8th, you can book online. If you would like to extend your stay beyond what the website offers, please call and book instead.
Call 1-800-548-8690
Registration for Vendors
Vendors – $125 for registration + one of the following tiers
- Tier 1: $100 – Includes one table for your exhibit.
- Tier 2: $300 – Includes one table and the opportunity to include your resources in the convention bags.
- Tier 3: $1,000 – Includes one table, inclusion of your resources in the convention bags, a featured video or slide on our social media platforms and/or website, and recognition at convention lunch on Friday.
Delegate Forms
Nominations and overture submissions are now closed! Thank you to those who have submitted the forms. If you have not submitted your forms to be a pastoral, lay, or advisory delegate please do so by filling out and submitting the online forms below.
Click and Submit them through the link!
Contact convention@se.lcms.org if you have any questions!
If you missed our pre-convention webinar led by President Harmon, you can find listen to it here!
In the webinar we reveiwed
- Overture process
- Floor Committees
- Resposiblity of delegates
- Convention week timeline and content
- Convention Servent Event
- Registration
Theme - Romans 5:5
“and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Convention Week Agenda
Online (Mon, May 5 – Wed, May 7)
Monday, May 5: 7-9 PM
- Bible Study
- Floor Committee Hearings
Tuesday, May 6: 7-9 PM
- Confessions Study
- Floor Committee Hearings
Wednesday, May 7: 7-9 PM
- President’s Report Part 1
- Floor Committee Hearings
Tentative In-Person Agenda (Thur, May 8 – Fri, May 9)
Thursday, May 8
9 am – Noon: Service Project at Redeemer Lutheran
11 am – 2 pm: Registration
1 pm: Convention Hall Doors Open
2 pm: Convention Begins
6 pm: Close of business
dinner on your own
7:30 pm: Worship and President’s Reception at Redeemer Lutheran
Friday, May 9
6 am: Continental Breakfast at Hotel
8 am: Convention Resumes
12:15 pm: Lunch at Hotel
1:30 pm: Business Resumes
4:00 pm: Close of Convention
Delegate Forms
Click and Submit them through the link!
Deadlines
Jan 17
- Delegate forms need to be submitted
Event Info
Registration opens online Jan 2025
$200.00 per voting delegate
DoubleTree by Hilton in Richmond, VA
Call to make a reservation – SED $159.00 room rate
1021 Koger Center Boulevard Richmond, Virginia 23235 USA
The Hotel is renovating all rooms, the lobby, and dining area starting this Fall – March of 2025
You are welcome to stay at another hotel of your choosing in the area if the DoubleTree isn’t your best option. This is where meals and business will take place.
Coming soon!
Questions?
If you have any questions about registrations or submitting nomination/overture forms please email convention@se.lcms.org
Synodical Convention
For information from the most recent Synod convention, visit lcms.org/convention/national or the explore the archives linked here.