Welcome to the Minneapolis Area Synod’s website for Stewardship Leaders! Please take a moment to look around. Each title on the top of this page has another page connected to it. Within these pages you will find answers to questions you may have, definitions, resources, thoughts and articles all about your Mission Support offerings and the practices of Stewardship. Please feel free to contact us at any time if we can be of assistance to you and your ministry.
Don’t miss out on the rest of this main page and all the links it offers. Please, read on!
Stewardship: The careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
What is Mission Support?
Mission Support is the money you place in the offering plate that is then shared with your synod and the churchwide organization for ELCA ministries beyond your congregation. Mission Support is undesignated giving (formerly called benevolence) and it provides the staff, networks, and relationships that enable the ELCA to carry out God’s work in this country and throughout the world.
The fact is when we work together as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, we are doing God’s work in ways that no individual or none of the 10,549 congregations can do alone. By sharing our time, talents, and possessions generously, God’s Spirit inspires others to give generously! Your Mission Support dollars support the whole church.
Stewardship
Mission Interpretation / Stewardship Leaders Pages
- Mission Support Defined
- Where Does the Offering Go in the Minneapolis Area Synod
- Where Does the Offering Go – ELCA Churchwide
- Ideas for Your Congregation
- Your Mission Support at Work!
Just a few ELCA organizations supported by your Mission Support
- International Disaster Response
- Lutheran Disaster Response
- Youth Ministries of the ELCA
- Advocacy
- ELCA Christian Education Resources
