Retirement! For some people, it may seem a long way off. For others, it's just around the corner. However, whatever your age happens to be, it is important to plan financially for your retirement years and the sooner the better.

Retirement planning can be an overwhelming task. We all know that we should have saved for our retirement years. Yet actually setting money aside, particularly when living on a limited income can be tough.

For Baptist General Conference pastors, missionaries, BGC national staff, full-time non-minister employees of BGC churches or district conferences, there is an easy solution, the BGC Retirement Plan.

The BGC has established both basic and supplemental plans to help our participants and their spouses live a comfortable, dignified life in their retirement years.

The benefits from these plans, together with Social Security, will give a strong financial base on which to build a secure retirement. As a participant, you will receive a regular monthly income for life, and within certain limits, you can choose when you want to retire and how you want your benefits paid.

Click on any of the forms listed below to view the form. You can then download the form and print the form out, complete it and send it to: BGC Retirement Plan 2002; 2002 S. Arlington Heights Road; Arlington Heights, IL 60005. You may also fax the completed form to the Arlington Heights Center at 847.228.5376. If you have any questions, please contact us at 1.800.323.4215, extension 3240 or at our email address BGCRetirement@baptistgeneral.org.