Our Resources
2024 Compensation & Benefits Guidelines Now Available
On our CONGREGATIONAL RESOURCES PAGE you will find the 2024 Suggested Compensation and Benefit Guidelines, which have been updated from the previous year.
DOWNLOADS AND LINKS BY TOPIC, A-Z
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Abortion / Pro-Life Resources: CLICK HERE
Administrators’ Conference: CLICK HERE
Advent Social Media Images: CLICK HERE
All Professional Church Workers’ Conference: CLICK HERE
Archives (instructions for congregational archives): CLICK HERE
A-Z Index of Synod (LCMS) Resources: CLICK HERE
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Best Practices of Outreach Ministries of Lutheran Schools As a Faith Forming Ecosystem (Rev. Dr. Marvin Bergman, 2015): CLICK HERE
Business and Finance Documents (Congregational resources including compensation & benefits, manuals, bylaws, etc.): CLICK HERE
Bylaws, 2022 Nebraska District: CLICK HERE
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Call Process and Documents (What to do when your pastor receives a call; vacancy/supply pastor information; calling pastors, DCEs, and teachers): CLICK HERE
Campus Ministry (Learn more and connect students): CLICK HERE
Church Worker, Congregation, and School Anniversaries: CLICK HERE
Church Worker Debt Retirement (forms and terms): CLICK HERE
Church Worker Wellness (CPS, counseling, financial planning, etc.) CLICK HERE
Compensation and Benefits Guidelines: CLICK HERE
Compensating Guest/Supply/Vacancy Pastors: CLICK HERE
Congregational and District Archives (Prepare, maintain, preserve congregational historical records): CLICK HERE
Congregation Remittances (Mission and Ministry Support to the District): DOWNLOAD FORM
Congregational Resources: CLICK HERE
Constitution and Bylaws Guidelines for Congregations: CLICK HERE
Counseling—GracePoint Institute for Relational Health: CLICK HERE
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Debt, Church Worker Debt Retirement: CLICK HERE
Directors of Christian Education (DCE): CLICK HERE
Disaster Response Information (including LERT and Comfort Dogs): CLICK HERE
District Archives: CLICK HERE
District Bylaws (2022): CLICK HERE
District Convention: CLICK HERE
District Reporter newsletter (subscribe, archive): CLICK HERE
District Youth Gathering (High School): CLICK HERE
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Educator and School Forms (includes Annual Reporting Form, Application for Inactive Status, Application for Reinstatement, Lutheran Annual Form): CLICK HERE
Education and Youth Newsletter Archive: CLICK HERE
Educator Awards: CLICK HERE
Employee Benefits for Church Workers: CLICK HERE
Employment Resource Manual: CLICK HERE
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Gift Planning (and LCMS Foundation): CLICK HERE
Gift Planning Resources for Congregations (content for newsletters and bulletins): CLICK HERE
GracePoint Institute for Relational Health: CLICK HERE
Guest (supply) Pastors: CLICK HERE
Guidelines for Constitutions and Bylaws of Lutheran Congregations: CLICK HERE
Guidelines for Constitutions and Bylaws of Small and Developing Lutheran Congregations: CLICK HERE
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Handbook, LCMS Constitution, Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation (2023): CLICK HERE
Health and Wellness, Parish: CLICK HERE
Hearts for Jesus archive: CLICK HERE
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Lent Social Media Images: CLICK HERE
Life Resources (Pro-life and abortion recovery information): CLICK HERE
LCEF (Lutheran Church Extension Fund): CLICK HERE
LCMS A-Z Index of Resources: CLICK HERE
LCMS Foundation (Gift Planning): CLICK HERE
Lutheran Education and Youth Ministry: CLICK HERE
Lutheran Schools Statistics: CLICK HERE
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Making Disciples for Life: CLICK HERE
Manuals for Congregational Business Managers and Treasurers: CLICK HERE
Marriage Policy for LCMS Member Congregations: CLICK HERE
Middle School Youth Gathering: CLICK HERE
Missional Communities Workshop: Audio Files HERE // Handouts HERE
Mission Grant Process & Application: CLICK HERE
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Newsletters, Education & Youth Newsletter Archive (Sharing His Heart–DCE newsletter, In the Loop–Administrator newsletter, Tidbits–Early Childhood Educator newsletter): CLICK HERE
Newsletter, District Reporter: CLICK HERE
Newsletter, Weekly Update: CLICK HERE
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Obituaries (Nebraska District rostered church workers): CLICK HERE
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Parish Health and Wellness / Parish Nursing: CLICK HERE
Partnership Project documents: CLICK HERE
Pastoral Calls: CLICK HERE
Pastoral Vacancies: CLICK HERE
Pastors’ Conference: CLICK HERE
Pastors’ Conferences Videos and Files Archives: CLICK HERE
Pastors, Resources: CLICK HERE
Personnel Manual Prototype for Congregations and Districts: CLICK HERE
Project Compass forms: CLICK HERE
Protecting Your Ministry from Sexual Orientation and Gender Idenity Lawsuits: CLICK HERE
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Record Retention Recommendations: CLICK HERE
Remittances, Congregation (Mission and Ministry Support to the District): DOWNLOAD FORM
Reporter (Nebraska District): CLICK HERE
Resources for Parish Health (includes accessibility, ministry to those with disabilities, domestic violence, etc.): CLICK HERE
Resources for Pastors: CLICK HERE
Revising Congregational Constitutions and Bylaws (Guidelines): CLICK HERE
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Scholarships Information: CLICK HERE
Scholarship Forms, District Student Aid: CLICK HERE
Scholarship Forms, Lutheran Laymen’s League: CLICK HERE
Social Issues (Synod Resources on Social Issues) CLICK HERE
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- Child Abuse CLICK HERE
- Disability CLICK HERE
- Domestic Violence CLICK HERE
- Human Trafficking CLICK HERE
- Immigration CLICK HERE
- Life Ministry CLICK HERE
- Marriage CLICK HERE
- Persecution CLICK HERE
- Racism CLICK HERE
- Religious Liberty CLICK HERE
- Sexuality CLICK HERE
Social Media Images, Advent & Lent: CLICK HERE
Statistics, Lutheran Schools: CLICK HERE
Stewardship: CLICK HERE
- Concordia Journal, Spring 2020–Stewardship Edition: CLICK HERE
- Stewardship Under the Cross–Stewardship for the Confessional Lutheran Parish: CLICK HERE
- Thinking About Stewardship Video Study (Rev. Dr. Joel Biermann): Full study guide with answers found HERE // Video sessions can be viewed or downloaded HERE
Supply List/Supply (guest) Pastors: CLICK HERE
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Taxes and Ministers Handbook: CLICK HERE
Treasurer’s Manual: CLICK HERE
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Upcoming Events: CLICK HERE
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Video Collection on Vimeo: CLICK HERE
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Weekly Update Newsletter archive: CLICK HERE
What to do when a pastor receives a call: CLICK HERE
Wives of Pastors Retreat: CLICK HERE
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Youth Gatherings: CLICK HERE
Youth Ministry Resources: CLICK HERE