Students
Ministerial students who
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have income from church employment and
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are enrolled full-time and
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are college seniors or seminary/divinity school students may enroll in the Pension Plan.
Seminary students who do not have income from church employment are encourageed to contact the Region in which they are under care about Pension Plan membership.
A Student Gift Grant is available to assist churches with employing ministerial students with Pension Plan dues.
Once ministerial students become Pension Plan members, they are encouraged to take advantage of other benefits available through the Pension Fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). These include Churchwide Health Care coverage, Churchwide Accident Insurance coverage, Benefit Accumulation Accounts and Tax Deferred Retirement Accounts.