It is virtually impossible to anticipate all such situations or to establish rules in advance. Specific answers cannot be given to cover every type of situation pastors and congregations face. These situations can be evaluated only on a case-by-case basis and may evoke different responses from different pastors who may be equally committed to LCMS fellowship principles. The LCMS has always recognized this.” Two LCMS ministers sought to bring charges against Kieschnick that, if upheld, would have led to his removal from the clergy roster of the Synod. The matter ended with the charges against Kieschnick being voided by a ruling of the synod's Commission on Constitutional Matters and Benke being cleared of charges that also had been brought against him. For several years, the Benke controversy left some LCMS members speaking of a "crisis in the Synod" and warning openly of the possibilities for a schism. Worldwide mission effort During Kieschnick's first term in office, the Synod's Board of Directors approved a proposal from the Board for Mission Services for a 15-year initiative to reach 100 million non-Christians worldwide with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark Weinrich, senior director for LCMS World Mission Support, said that the plan, subsequently titled "Ablaze!", was consistent with a mission emphasis for the Synod that Kieschnick had promoted. "President Kieschnick set the vision in his acceptance speech because he talked about shaking the earth with the Gospel," Weinrich said. The 2004 Synod convention took note of the Ablaze! initiative by adopting a number of mission-oriented resolutions. Among those was Res. 1-04 to accept the challenge to reach 100 million people with the Gospel by 2017 (the 500th anniversary of the Reformation) and to seek to raise $100 million over and above the current mission budget for additional mission support by 2010. The fund-raising effort, subsequently titled "Fan Into Flame," had raised $58,900,172 as of July 1, 2010. An additional $40 million in major gift requests were pending at the time of the 2010 Synod convention. Only one passing reference to the Ablaze! initiative and no references to "Fan Into Flame" appeared in the Synod's Convention Proceedings for its national conventions in 2013, 2016, and 2019 after the election of Matthew Harrison as Synod president in 2010. Reelection and second term In 2004, Kieschnick won reelection to the presidency on the first ballot with 653 votes (53 percent of 1,237 votes cast for five