Annie's Kitchen | Edmonds Lutheran Edmonds, WA
Annie's Kitchen - Edmonds Lutheran, Edmonds, WA
View ArticleThe power of dreaming big
May 28, 2014Every week, senior citizens with dementia or physical impairments gather in one of the large new classrooms at Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Barrington, Illinois. There, the seniors...
View ArticleAssisting the greatest generation
November 17, 2014Empowering vibrant, grace-filled living across all generations. That is the mission of Lutheran Life Communities, an ELCA-related ministry providing life-sustaining services for older...
View ArticleA growing church in a young community gets a new worship space
March 25, 2015Fanning out north of Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city, are rapidly growing suburban areas drawing in young families. The town of Cornelius is one of those places. Positioned on...
View ArticlePlanning for the future
March 20, 2015Philip Rivera, 26, ought to understand the value of sound finances. As a staff member of the Office of the Treasurer of the ELCA’s churchwide organization, every day Rivera works to...
View ArticleMIF's Youth Ministry account is helping to pave the way to Youth Gathering
June 19, 2015“Youth Gathering has changed my life!” exclaims Sarah Bordsen Bailey, thinking back to the ELCA’s event in the summer of 2012.Sarah, a May 2015 high school graduate, is anticipating this...
View ArticleMIF Investor - Philip Rivera
There may not be a more model example of a Mission Investment Fund investor than Philip Rivera. Rivera, 26, is a staff member in the Office of the Treasurer of the ELCA’s church-wide organization. As...
View ArticleChrist Lutheran Church | Minot, ND
June 22, 2011, was a sunny summer day. Then the evacuation sirens sounded. And North Dakota’s Souris River, fed to flood stage by heavy spring rains, overflowed its levees.Much of the city of Minot was...
View ArticleRestoring the grandeur of a historic church in Charleston
October 28, 2015When the members of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church began building their church on Charleston’s main square in 1868, the city was still recovering from the devastation of the Civil War....
View ArticleRestoring luster to a place of grace and welcome in the South
June 3, 2016“The renovation of our current facility will support our mission to present and future generations ... Our goal is bold and challenging, just like the gospel we proclaim!”With that...
View ArticleIn South Carolina, making the choice to invest in support of the church
October 6, 2016More than 20 years ago, Jerry Richardson, a lifelong member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Pomaria, South Carolina, helped introduce his congregation council to the Mission Investment...
View Article‘Smiles, hugs and happy tears’ celebrate the rebuilding of this Iowa church
October 7, 2016With a structure built in 1903 in the tiny town of Churchville, Iowa, and relocated by horse-drawn wagon some 30 years later to a more populous area that is now the town of Martensdale,...
View ArticleSalt House, Kirkland, Washington
When Trinity Lutheran Church on Seattle’s Eastside chose to close its doors, the congregation donated its building, the last funds in the church’s coffers and three acres of prime real estate to nearby...
View ArticleStanding tall: Working with MIF helps a Houston congregation build on an...
June 1, 2017Since holding its first service in June 1945 and moving into its own building four years later, Christ the King Lutheran Church has been a vibrant presence in southwest Houston, Texas....
View ArticleJanuary snow couldn’t derail a Wisconsin church’s fundraising efforts
September 6, 2017It was snowing—hard—on January 31, 2015, when the Mission Investment Fund’s Capital Campaign Services consultant Phyllis Wiederhoeft arrived at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Waukesha,...
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