Sabbaticals
"The New England Synod strongly encourages congregations and other organizations within the Synod to provide for and grant their pastors and other full-time rostered workers a sabbatical or renewal leave of three consecutive months after every four years of service in that setting." 
Sabbatical Policy
Three Congregations Receive Impressive Lilly Endowment Grants
for Pastor's Sabbaticals in 2012
Three congregations in the New England Synod have received grants to enable their pastors to participate in the National Clergy Renewal Program funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment, Inc. Concordia, Manchester, Conn., St. Peter's, Harwich, Mass., and Ascension, South Burlington, Vt., are three of 158 congregations across the country that are supporting their ministers in the program, which allows pastors to step back from their busy lives and renew their spirits for the benefit of their ongoing ministries during three-month sabbaticals in 2012. Read more, including how your congregation can apply for a Lilly Endowment grant of up to $50,000. Three Congregations Receive Sabbatical Grants from Lilly Endowment for 2012
Sabbatical Stories:
Pr. Dan Wilfrid, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Holden, Mass., spent one month of his three-month sabbatical in 2005 building a boat. Read his story about "a divine wind."
