Version History
Current published version
Today's Business, Issue 2B. p. 283. Revised published proposal.
Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 3-05
Canonical number: 3-05
Committee: Mercy
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: pp. 79-80
PDF pages: 79-80
Version: original, superseded
Source reference: Issue 1, pp. 79-80
Line numbers follow Today's Business, Issue 1, with numbering reset on each printed page, so delegates can compare this page with the official PDF.
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- To Commend Efforts to Serve Worker Wellness and Encourage Participation
- in Concordia Plan Services
- RESOLUTION 3-05
- Overture 3-06 (CW, 301)
- WHEREAS, It is a mission priority of the Synod to promote and nurture the spiritual, emotional, and physical well-
- being of pastors and professional church workers; and
- WHEREAS, The Council of Presidents (COP), LCMS Worker Wellness, and Concordia Plan Services (CPS) have
- collaborated to create a strategic plan that has been disseminated to district presidents and established by district boards of
- directors pursuant to 2023 Resolution 1-06A, “To Direct Districts and Council of Presidents to Provide Strategic Plan for
- Addressing Wellness of Church Workers”; and
- WHEREAS, The strategies involve the efforts of both professional church workers and the congregational lay leaders
- and ministry leaders; and
- WHEREAS, Soldiers of the Cross has provided $241,705 of financial assistance to 98 rostered church workers this past
- triennium, and Veterans of the Cross has provided $717,751 to 30 recipients in the same period, demonstrating both the
- generosity of the church and the real and ongoing burdens borne by its servants; and
- WHEREAS, Approximately 20 percent of rostered church workers are not covered by the CPS health plans; and
- WHEREAS, The Soldiers of the Cross and Veterans of the Cross crisis financial grants offered to church workers
- demonstrate that workers who are not covered by CPS health plans are vulnerable to significant adverse financial impact
- when there are serious health and medical needs of the workers and their family members; and
- WHEREAS, The CPS mission statement is to “Serve ministries … Care for workers … So that the Word of God
- spreads” (“Purpose and Values,” concordiaplans.org/who-we-are/careers, accessed May 30, 2026); and
- WHEREAS, CPS’s ability to fulfill its mission and hold down the rising costs of health insurance for workers is
- enhanced by its worker wellness programs and by increasing the number of workers enrolled in CPS; and
- WHEREAS, The business practices, ethical posture, and church-worker wellness programs of CPS are governed by the
- Word of God and the Lutheran Confessions; and
- WHEREAS, CPS health plans are customized for the needs of church workers, the assets of the health plans are designed
- to bear the health burdens of the members (Gal. 6:2), and the health plans have varied financial options for Synod
- ministries; therefore be it
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- Resolved, That the COP, LCMS Worker Wellness, and CPS be commended and thanked for their work to provide
- leadership and a strategic plan, and for their collaboration on Soldiers of the Cross and Veterans of the Cross grant
- programs; and be it further
- Resolved, That districts, congregations, schools and ministries not enrolled in a CPS health plan be encouraged to
- annually consider and compare their current health plan with those available through CPS; and be it finally
- Resolved, That the lay leaders of Synod congregations, schools, and recognized service organizations be advised and
- encouraged to make use of resources, programs, and plans created by the districts, CPS, and LCMS Worker Wellness, and
- endeavor to form the local culture to be supportive of and caring for the holistic well-being of church workers, members,
- and visitors.
