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Gifting Options
Supporting LCEF Through Gifts
We understand that there are many worthy ministry options needing the support of faithful individuals like yourself. LCEF is honored that you are considering a gift to our ministry.
Your gift helps LCEF build God’s Kingdom, helps lower the loan rates offered by LCEF, and leaves a lasting legacy. Making a direct gift online lets you participate in the LCEF ministry quickly and easily. We also offer a link to our partners at the LCMS Foundation for a deferred gift, ensuring the estate plan in your heart is realized.
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LCEF offers a secure online catalog of gifting options to ensure your privacy and the opportunity to impact ministry right away with your generous gift!
For more information about the LCEF ministry areas you can support and how to process your gift today, visit the online giving catalog.
A Direct Gift Supporting LCEF
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A well thoughtout plan allows you the choice of when and how your property is distributed after you are called to heaven.
We have professional partners at the LCMS Foundation that can help put a plan in place. We encourage you to invite them to apply their expertise to the process.
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Investments Help Create New Space, Renewed Spirit
This spring, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Sturgeon Bay, Wisc., members will mark the one-year dedication anniversary of their 14,000-sq.-ft. worship and education facility, which also includes an inviting coffee and snack area. With the creation of the new space, the congregation is rejuvenated, Pastor Nathan Lewis said, and members seek ministry partnerships with food pantries, group homes, clinics, work places for people with special needs, resource centers for those with mental illnesses, and youth clubs. LCEF was blessed to partner with Prince of Peace to fund the expansion. |
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Congregation Renews Commitment to Stewardship
Mount Olive Lutheran Church and School is the only Lutheran elementary school in Des Moines, Iowa. To help keep it and the congregation fiscally healthy and spiritually engaged, members participated in Consecrated Stewards. By God’s grace and the efforts of its members, Mount Olive is projected to have 14% more income during the year. Approximately 85 of 125 households pledged during the stewardship emphasis and a majority of those pledging increased their giving. In addition, many households that had never donated previously, pledged to begin giving. |
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Weekly “Deposit” Pays off for Stamp Collector
Douglas Markworth, principal at St. John's Lutheran School, Chicago, Ill., knows how to make a quarter pay dividends. As an elementary student Markworth brought in 25 cents every week to buy an LCEF stamp. Over time, this eventually added up, helping Markworth attain the coveted teenage possession: a car.
In the mid-1970s, Markworth's investment in LCEF's special kids account, now called Kids Into Discipleship and Stewardship (K.I.D.S.) Stamp Program, paid the "ministry dividend" of helping build and support churches and schools, and helped him save for his first set of wheels. |
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