# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2007_S231
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

- HUMAN CARE

tion in planning for the sabbatical. The committee will coordinate
and ensure that the responsibilities of the church worker will be at-
tended to, help the church worker develop his/her sabbatical plan,
and bring the church worker up to date upon his/her return. The
members of the committee will include the president and a repre-
sentative of the church worker’s supervisory board.

The hiring of replacements for staff on sabbatical leave will be
the responsibility of the church worker’s supervisory board.

The professional church worker will report to the congregation
after his/her sabbatical.

O God, in the course of this busy life,

Give us times of refreshment and peace; ,
And grant that we may so use our sabbatical time
To rebuild our bodies, renew our minds,
_And refresh our souls,
That our spirits may be opened
To the goodness of Your creation;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
South Wisconsin District

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