Welcome to the Upper Midwest Regional Site

Your Resource for Regional Information

The information on this site is provided and maintained by the Upper Midwest Region. For questions or for more information please contact Maria Hendrickson, Upper Midwest Promotional Director, at 612-802-9731 or by e-mail at: maria.hendrickson@mnsdistrict.org.

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LCEF investments at work in featured ministries: North Dakota (1st K.I.D.S. stamp program!) North Wisconsin (camp ministry loan,) Iowa East (loan supporting deaf ministry,) Iowa West (Christian child care loan,) and in Minnesota (Consecrated Stewards.)

Have your church members seen this latest information? Please distribute to your fellow church members before June!

"It's About Time" is the theme for this year's spring training events in North Wisconsin. LCEF VP Dennis Johnson invites all congregation representatives, contacts, pastors and spouses throughout Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan to mark their calendars and attend a session.

Featured: LCMS school marketing materials, LCMS funding, Consecrated Stewards for your congregation, CFS and mission, Peace in Wall Lake, IA, St. Peter in St. Paul and Good Shepherd in Owatonna, MN, North Wisconsin spring training sessions, and more!

Please be sure to let us know if you want an electronic and/or paper copy of the newsletter. Provide your mailing address if you are requesting a paper copy.
 
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Prompted by financial challenges, leadership gave this process a try. Blessings flowed for membership and leadership alike. Wanting to reinforce their positive momentum, this congregation will also participate in year two of the emphasis.

Good Shepherd was overcrowded during worship and they desperately needed dedicated youth space. See how LCEF is helping this growing congregation reach out to their community for Christ!

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"Having Dennis, our district LCEF vice president walk us through the loan process made it all seamless. I am sure we would have had many more roadblocks trying to get funding elsewhere," Gary Vought, Camp Director of Outdoor Ministry at Camp Luther in Wisconsin.

Questions regarding loan funding? Contact your district vice president.

 
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Church

The LCEF ministry is a partnership between our investors and the LCMS congregations, schools and rostered church workers that we fund. Click here to see how congregations in Minnesota are supporting ministry through investing.

Included in these brief bits are seasonal reminders of service; ways the LCEF ministry serves your congregation. Please share with your newsletter and bulletin editor.

Please provide your name, address and phone number so we contact you about volunteer opportunities.
 
K.I.D.S. Coordinators

Here's a small gift for the younger K.I.D.S. Stamp investors in your program. Please download, print and distribute before the school year ends as a THANK YOU for investing in the Church.

We thank Lutheran Hour Ministries for sharing their resources!

Coordinators, print or download this clip art for your church/school publications, and for viewing at your stamp table.

Always have a current offering circular on site for potential new investors to view.

Print for your stamp table and display in an acrylic frame, share in your publications or during your pre-service/school slides.

Welcome new coodrdinators, order the new stewardship boxes for your students, and articles for your newsletters.

Print this photo collage to display in a clear acrylic frame on your stamp table; students and parents alike will see how investing in LCEF helps build churches.

You may also use this image for your preservice slides or in your school publications.

School

Does everyone in your community know the wonderful benefits of a Lutheran education? This Lutheran School Marketing Handbook will assist your school in developing an effective marketing plan based on your school's unique strengths. Use in conjunction with LCEF school marketing materials below.

A Lutheran education is special. It is unique. These materials will help share your school's story with potential families. View samples and order online.

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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.