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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Page 99

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provisions for the Board of Managers—Pensions and
Support to discharge its responsibilities in the pro-
viding of support.

10.23 Persons Eligible for Support

The following persons shall be eligible for support:

a. professors, pastors, and teachers who on
account of old age or illness have been compelled to
resign their office and whose pension annuities are
not sufficient for their reasonable needs;

b. widows of professors, pastors, and teachers,
and their children up to 18 years of age, provided they
are in need of support;

c. servants of the church who were called and
employed by eleemosynary, educational, and mis-
sionary organizations, and boards within the Synod
and are advisory members of a synodical District,
and missionaries, pastors, professors, and teachers
serving the Synod in home and foreign countries and
their dependents or survivors;

d. women teachers and women workers otherwise
professionally engaged in church work, incapaci-
tated after years of faithful service and with no other
means of support. These may be considered as being
in the same class with pastors’ and teacher’s widows.

10.25 Persons Not Eligible for Support

a. The following shall not be eligible for support:
1. professors, pastors, and teachers—

a) who through illness have been compelled to
resign but are able to support themselves in
some other manner;

b) who have sufficient means so that they need
not be supported by the Synod; or

who for sufficient reasons have been compelled
to resign or who without good reasons have
resigned of their own accord. Such cases shall
be decided by the board after it has consulted
with the respective synodical officers;

2. widows who have remarried or who obtained
employment enabling them, in the opinion of the
board, to support themselves.

b. Workers in the Synod (and the dependents of
such workers) eligible to participate in but who did
not participate in the Pension Plan for Pastors and
Teachers and/or the Concordia Welfare Plan and
Concordia Retirement Plan shall not be eligible for
support, except as the Board of Managers—Pensions
and Support may in its discretion otherwise
determine.

c. All doubtful cases shall be decided by the Board
of Managers—Pensions and Support, judging each
case on its merits and in Christian love.

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10.27 Application for Support

Each application for support shall be addressed to
the Board of Managers—Pensions and Support and
shall before approval be properly investigated and
evaluated by the board.

10.33 Lutheran Laymen’s League
Endowment Fund

The Lutheran Laymen’s League Endowment Fund
was collected with the promise that it is to be a
permanent fund and that the proceeds are to be used
for the care of our Veterans of the Cross—our
incapacitated pastors, professors, and teachers—and
of the widows and orphans of pastors, professors, and
teachers. Therefore the Lutheran Laymen’s League
turned this fund over to the Synod under these two
unalterable conditions:

a. The capital fund may be increased, but it must
never be reduced or disposed of.

2.695 Official Lists
(Same as present 10.31)

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