Administration Resources

Below you’ll find the following types of resources:

• Constitution
• Personnel
• Legal
• Records
• Financial

Constitution

• Model Constitution for Congregations (and related resources from the ELCA)
• Notes for Revising an ELCA Congregation Constitution (PDF)
• Constitution of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod (PDF)

Personnel

• Minimum Compensation and Benefits Guidelines for Rostered Leaders and Church Staff
• Dealing with Sexual Misconduct/604.20 Synod Manual
• ELCA Board of Pensions -
  Retirement plans and benefits administrator for rostered leaders and lay staff. They also have calculators to help determine contribution amounts, defined compensation, total compensation, savings, and annuity options.
• Personnel Manual
• Posters for employees – coming soon!
• Submit non-rostered job openings (openings for rostered leaders must go through the Call Process)
  • ELCA career opportunities for outside organizations
  • Send your listing to livingood@semnsynod.org for publication on the synod webpage
  • LutheransOnline.com provides free job classifieds for Lutherans and Lutheran organizations (provided by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans)
  • Contact local colleges for their career centers

Legal

• Electronic Communication Policy
• I-9 Information
• Legal FAQs

Records

• ELCA Archives
• Region 3 Archives
• ELCA Records Management Guidelines
• Congregational Report Forms – to be submitted annually by February 15

Financial

• Congregational Remittance Form
• Other ways to give to the ministry of the ELCA (including online gifts to the synod)
• Resources for congregational treasurers
• Tax hints for treasurers