Administration

Administrative Services provides oversight to the funds collected and distributed through the Great Plains Annual Conference. 

The list below showcases what pages you can find under the administrative section of the website. If you have any questions, you can contact the administrative office, located in Topeka, Kansas, at 785-272-9111 or 877-972-9111.

Conference budget

  • Yearly budget, funding plan resources, proposed budget and audit reports.
  • Distance meeting options

Council and leader resources

  • Administrative services newsletter
  • Charge conference resources
  • Administrative services newsletter
  • Charge conference resources
  • Church and politics
  • Staff-parish forms
  • Year-end reports — statistics, local church audit
  • Church and politics
  • Staff-parish forms
  • Year-end reports — statistics, local church audit

Human Resources

  • Employment and Staffing
  • Employee or Contract Labor
  • Equitable comp guidelines & application
  • Labor Laws
  • Mileage Rates & Reimbursement
  • W-2 and W-3 Forms
  • Workplace posting requirements
  • Work comp
  • Hiring forms 
  • Sample church handbook
  • Insurance

Pension and other benefits

  • Benefit statements/payments
  • Clergy return to work program
  • Clergy voluntary transition program
  • Death and disability — CPP
  • Financial planning resources
  • Housing resolutions
  • New appointment checklist
  • Heath insurance
  • Optional life insurance for clergy
  • Pension benefits clergy and lay
  • Ready to Retire Seminar
  • UMPIP — clergy and lay
  • Accountable Reimbursement Plan
  • Changing from DSA to Local Pastor

Treasurer resources

  • Church and clergy taxes
  • Employment and staffing
  • Great Plains local church audit policy/procedures
  • Local church finance and treasurer's guide
  • Records management
  • Statements and remittance forms

Trustee resources

  • Accessibility audit
  • Parsonage standards
  • Policy samples
  • Trip insurance
  • Property tax exemption
  • Risk management
  • Property and liability insurance