Caring for Creation

Financial Planning RESOURCES

Financial Peace University

Biblical Money Management

ELCA Stewardship

Mission Investment Fund

The Mission Office for Planned Giving

Opportunities

"You must each make up your own mind as to how much you should give. Don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For God loves the person who gives cheerfully."
—2 Corinthians 9:7

Christian stewardship is grateful and responsible use of our God-given resources of time, talent, and treasure. Stewardship is not just a program, a fund-raising scheme, or about money and donations. Stewardship is living out a commitment to be Christ-centered rather than self-centered and involves a conversion of the heart. Stewardship is a lifelong journey with each person at a different place on the path.

Caring for Creation
Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice — This social statement was adopted by a more than two-thirds majority vote as a social statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America by the third Churchwide Assembly on August 28, 1993, at Kansas City, Missouri.

Financial Planning Resources

If you're ready to find God's financial plan for your life, these pages will point the way.

Financial Peace University
Financial Peace University is Dave Ramsey's life-changing program that teaches you to achieve your financial goals by eliminating debt, saving for the future, and giving like never before.

Biblical Money Management
Biblical Money Management has resources with additional links.

ELCA Stewardship
ELCA Stewardship has resources with additional links.

Mission Investment Fund
Through the Mission Investment Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ELCA congregations and their members, synods and ELCA-related ministries may invest their funds in the growth of the Lutheran church and earn interest on their investments.

With the funds entrusted to it, MIF makes loans to ELCA mission congregations for purchases of land and construction of initial church buildings, and to established ELCA congregations for expansion, renovation, and relocation projects, refinancing of existing debt, and land purchases. Loans for capital building projects are also available to ELCA-related ministries such as seminaries, outdoor ministries, and social ministry organizations.

The Mission Office for Planned Giving
The Mission Office for Planned Giving brings together ministry partners in our area along with the Churchwide ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.