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This year, we are conducting the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Board of Directors election through direct mail. You are eligible to vote and will receive the mailing if you are a benefit member, that is, a member who owns a Thrivent Financial life insurance or annuity product. The opportunity to elect your Board of Directors is one of the many benefits you have as a member of a fraternal benefit society. Please participate -- your vote counts!
This year, three members will be elected to the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Board of Directors for four-year terms. Official ballots were mailed to benefit members beginning in early October.
The ballot package for benefit members contains candidate biographies and a tear-off reply ballot.
For votes to be counted, they must be postmarked by Nov. 30.
As a membership organization, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is unique to the financial services world in many ways. Our members choose who will represent them on the national board of directors governing the organization as well as choose their local chapter leadership board. The election process is a very important way for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to demonstrate two required elements of a fraternal benefit society: 1. An active, viable chapter system that involves many members 2. A representative form of government. Without this election process, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans would not qualify as a tax-exempt fraternal benefit society and would not be able to provide the benefits to needy individuals, congregations and communities that it does today.
Did you know that our chapter has its own Web site? The next time you're online, check it out at www.lutheransonline.com/upstatescchapter.
Your gift to a Lutheran organization can accomplish even more through the GivingPlus® program. Are you aware that as a member of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, financial gifts you make to a Lutheran organization might be able to be supplemented by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans? Through Thrivent Financial's GivingPlus® program, members can donate financial gifts to two different Lutheran organizations enrolled in the program each year, and Thrivent Financial will contribute $1 for every $2, up to $300 per year for each organization. For example, if you donate gifts of $600 or more to two eligible Lutheran organizations each, Thrivent Financial will contribute an additional $600 ($300 for each organization). In addition, Thrivent Financial will contribute an additional $25 for members who volunteer 25 hours or more at the organization receiving their gift. All you need to do is complete a GivingPlus Member Gift form (available online or from the Lutheran organization) and submit it with your donation to the Lutheran organization. It's a very simple process. For complete details and guidelines about this one-of-a-kind member benefit program and for copies of the Member Gift form, go to www.thrivent.com/fraternal/churchcommunity/givingplus.html.
This newsletter is written for you by volunteer leaders of your local Thrivent Financial for Lutherans chapter, and any views expressed are those of the writer. For questions, comments or to learn more about chapter activities in your area, please contact one of your chapter leaders, who are listed on our Web site at: www.thrivent.com/members. Just click on Information About My Chapter.
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