2008 Salary Guidelines

Background Checks - links to ELCA page.  The ELCA recommends background checks for all rostered leaders and individuals working with youth.  Insurance carriers are also beginning to require background checks.  (Congregations are considered institutions of the ELCA with regard to reduced fees.)

Call Process Information

 Synod Constitution (281KB) - revised September 2007

The Synod Constitution is available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader needed to view and print files. Download FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader now.

Constitution Review Committee

 Continuing Education

Covenantal Agreement - The Metropolitan Chicago Synod/ELCA, and Advocate Health Care Network
(signed August 18, 2007)

Suggestions for Chaplains and Congregations in Time of Military and Involuntary Call-Up
(PDF 106KB)

ELCA Resources

Employment Opportunities

Forms

Healthy Congregations Program

Lutheran Churches of Chicago - A Genealogical Guide

Lutheran Association of Christian Educators
Our mission is to support Christian educators.

Our vision is to create a community for energizing and inspiring ELCA Christian educators for their work through:

providing resources and educational opportunities
facilitating communications
offering venues for idea sharing and support
nurturing spiritual growth

Marriage Ceremonies, Who Can Perform Them? (PDF 28KB)

For information on the Middle East, visit www.elca.org/middleeast. 

Older Adult Ministry

Parish Administration Initiative (PAI)
The goal of the PAI is to enable the mission of the Church – witnessing, serving, reaching out to people for Christ – by connecting, equipping, and supporting parish administrators so they can manage the church’s resources as effectively as possible, and make things happen.

Peace Resources

Prevention of Rostered Leader Sexual Misconduct

 Pulpit Supply

Safety of Youth and Children

 Sexual Misconduct Policy - (84KB) revised September 2007

Congregational Web page Resources
 

Check out the Official
Web site for
Davey and Goliath

External Links

Association of Lutheran Church Musicians

Augsburg Fortress

Global Health Ministries

Kerygma (Adult Bible Studies)

"Let's Talk"

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center

Lombard Mennonite Peace Center offers a variety of training programs including conflict transformation, meditation, and Bowen family systems theory.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Responding to the Gospel, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois brings healing, justice, and wholeness to people and communities. 

Lutheran Special Education Ministries

Lutheran Special Education Ministries enables children with special learning needs to receive a Christian education.

Lutheran Marriage Encounter

Coffee is one of the most heavily traded commodities in the world. Yet coffee farmers - some 20 million people in countries near the equator - often struggle just to make a simple living. 

The synod offices purchase Fair Trade coffee from the equalexchange group.

National Institute on Media and the Family
(A national resource for teachers, parents, community leaders and other adults who are interested in the influence of electronic media on early childhood education, child development, academic performance, culture and violence.)

Protestants for the Common Good

Sample job position descriptions
(Courtesy of Association of Lutheran Resource Center's Shared Collection of Open Files - maintained as a ministry of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin's Resource Center Staff.)

Seafarers and International House
(Located just east of Union Square and south of Gramercy Park, Seafarers and International House is the only seafarer guesthouse operated by a church agency in New York City. They welcome travelers from all over the globe, and you do not have to be a seafarer to take advantage of the facilities and rates they offer.)

ELCA Broadcast Media Events

Information about shows featuring ELCA congregations, features about Davey and Goliath, and other media events may be found on the ELCA's Communication Services Web page by clicking here.
 

Online Resource - Arts Anew Manual:
Want to integrate the arts into Worship?

The worship and ministry resource, Arts Anew Manual:  Want to integrate the arts into worship? is available for downloading at the Web site: www.good-shep.org.  After all copies of the 50 page Arts Anew Manual were distributed in 2002, it was made available on the Internet for congregations interested in forming an arts council, or integrating the arts into worship.  The manual is a result of an intense two-year arts program at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 111 North Elmhurst Road, Prospect Heights, Illinois.

The Arts Anew Manual is being used throughout the United States as a model for organizing and maintaining a congregational arts program; it includes examples of worship renewal ideas, and art education activities.
 

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