Administration Resources
Below you’ll find the following types of resources:
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
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