Storytellers:

  • say Thank You for giving to Mission Support
  • share Mission Support Stories

Did you know:

  • Mission Support does so much in so many places for so many people?
  • Mission Support gives you many ways to participate for the good of others?
  • Mission Support Stories lift up God’s life-changing work in our communities and around the world?
  • Mission Support Stories grows your faith?

Want to know more about:

  • Having a storyteller for you congregation
  • Having a storyteller come to your church
  • Receiving a monthly newsletter with stories

Contact: Barb Brennan
barb.brennan@wisynod.org
Call 712-260-3364

Where Does Your Offering Go?

ELCA members in more than 9,300 congregations in the United States and Caribbean give approximately $1.75 billion in regular offering to support ELCA ministries in their local communities and worldwide. When members give through their congregations, a percentage of that money is then shared with the local synod and the national churchwide organization.

This unrestricted giving, called Mission Support, gives us both the foundation and the fuel to do God’s work in the world and a portion of the gifts circle back to support ministries in synods and local congregations. Of these unrestricted gifts, the churchwide organization receives around 2.6 percent. This represents the largest portion of the ELCA churchwide organization’s operating budget.

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