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Donating Your Interest

Contribute All or Part of Interest Earned to a Specific LCMS Ministry

The LCEF Special Interest Fund allows investors to contribute all or part of their interest earned from their LCEF accounts. Your interest contributions will help fund LCMS ministry needs. Any LCEF investor can participate.

Special Interest Fund
The Haake World Ministry Fund
Art Haake Plaque Dedication

The Special Interest Fund allows investors to contribute all or part of their interest earned from their LCEF account for a specific time period to a specific LCMS ministry such as a congregation, school, mission field, partner church, social ministry, or recognized service organization.

Any LCEF investor can participate:

  • New investors may attach a Special Interest Fund form when they open their LCEF account.
  • Current investors can mail their forms to:
    Lutheran Church Extension Fund
    PO Box 229009
    St. Louis, MO 63122-9009
  • Or, call 1-800-843-5233.
Art Haake Plaque Dedication

Helping to fund short-term ministry needs or start-up costs for new ministries of Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod partner churches around the world is the goal of the Arthur C. Haake World Ministry Fund.

Loan requests for the fund come to the Lutheran Church Extension Fund through the LCMS Board of Mission Services. Loans from the fund are generally in the $50,000 to $500,000 range and do not exceed terms of five years. Interest rates are based on the ability of partner churches to repay and range from 0% to the current applicable loan rate.

How can investors participate?

LCEF Investors are encouraged to participate in the Arthur C. Haake World Ministry Fund through any of five options:

  • Donate all or part of their interest earned by their LCEF investments to the World Ministry Fund.
  • Designate a direct gift to LCEF for the World Ministry Fund.
  • Designate the World Ministry Fund as a beneficiary in their estate planning.
  • Entire principal.
  • StewardAccount® VISA Check Card purchases.

The Arthur C. Haake World Ministry Fund differs from other LCEF investments because of the risk involved in lending money to partner churches in other countries. Rapid fluctuations in the value of foreign currencies could make it difficult for borrowers to repay their loans.
About Arthur C. Haake

Arthur C. Haake served as President of LCEF from 1978 to 1997. He is remembered as an effective Christian leader and a man of God. His leadership helped focus LCEF on its ministry role and goal of “making a difference.” His dedicated service to the Church, to other people, and to making a difference through the ministry of LCEF is an enduring legacy.

Art’s service has been memorialized at LCEF headquarters with a plaque featuring a soaring eagle. One of Art’s favorite verses of scripture was Isaiah 40:31: “but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
Donating Forms
Donating Brochures

What's Your Interest?  LCEF's Special Interest Fund Brochure

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Arthur C. Haake World Ministry Fund Brochure

Meeting Ministry Opportunities Brochure

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Have a question?
Contact your local LCEF District Vice President, contact LCEF directly at Contact Us, or call the Lutheran Church Extension Fund at 1-800-843-5233, 7:45 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., CT, Monday through Friday.
LCEF is a nonprofit religious organization; therefore, LCEF investments are not FDIC-insured bank deposit accounts. This is not an offer to sell investments, nor a solicitation to buy. The offer is made solely by LCEF’s Offering Circular. Investors should carefully read the Offering Circular, which more fully describes associated risks.