# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S619
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FINANCIAL MATTERS 619

er himself and must be approved by the Board, with the right
‘to call for proof of continued disability from time to time by a
competent physician chosen by the Board. If the disabled worker
recovers sufficiently to resume active work (church or secular),
he must inform the Board immediately, and the Board may reduce
or terminate his disability pension and require him and his con-
gregation to resume the contributions, if he returns to church work.
Incidental, temporary, or limited church work of a nonpermanent
nature shall not be deemed to invalidate a worker’s retirement
“status.”

ACTION
Synod adopted this resolution.

Social Security for Lay Workers
(Memorial 812)

We submit a resolution adopted in a regular meeting of the
congregation last night: |

Resolved, That we petition the forthcoming convention of
Synod to instruct its Board of Support and Pensions to propose
some suitable and equitable plan of extending social security
benefits to those employees (sextons, organists, social workers, and
the like) who are not eligible for admission to Synod’s Pension

Fund. First IMMANUEL LuTHERAN CHurcH or CHIcaco

H. O, Brocr, Secretary
E. H. Merzen, Pastor

Committee 12 reported:

Wuereas, Synod’s Board of Directors is at the present time
engaged in devising some means of social security for lay workers
who are not at the present time eligible for admission to Synod’s
Pension Fund; therefore be it

Resolved, That we reject Memorial 812.

ACTION
Synod adopted this resolution.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON THE MATTER
OF PENSIONS FOR LAY EMPLOYEES

On page 382 of the 1941 Proceedings of the Fort Wayne Con-
vention the following resolution was considered:

“Concerning Section II, C, h, lay workers in the Pension Plan,
and considering also the request of Memorial 814, the Committee
recommended:

“That the matter of lay workers doing secular work in the
employ of the Church who cannot qualify for State or Federal