Deadlines for year-end gifts
Please note the following deadlines if you’d like your gift to be made in 2024 for tax purposes:
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How can I support a ministry today?
You can donate online at your convenience. Simply select the ministry you’d like to support and choose from the drop down menu a more specific designation if you’d like.
Can I make a gift that has an ongoing impact on ministry?
WELS Foundation manages endowment funds that support not only synodical ministries, such as missions and our ministerial education schools, but also helps congregations, schools, and other ministries set up and manage endowment funds. As these funds grow over time, distributions are made to the designated entity to help support its ministry work.
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Can my gift be matched?
As a benefit to employees, former employees, and even employees’ spouses, many companies match gifts to charitable organizations like WELS. This is particularly true when the gift is designated for a school. Learn if your gift can be matched, or contact your employer.
Are there any investment options?
The WELS Church Extension Fund offers the opportunity to invest in savings certificates, loan certificates, or retirement certificates. Your investments fund loans made to WELS churches for special projects.
Learn about WELS Church Extension Fund
WELS Investment Funds offers four cost-effective, professionally managed investment portfolios exclusively for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, its subsidiaries, congregations, and affiliated ministries.
The WELS Endowment Fund seeks to maximize the long-term growth of principal and is designed primarily for endowment funds. The WELS Endowment Fund is composed of 75% equity and 25% fixed income and has a long-range investment time horizon.
The WELS Balanced Fund seeks to reduce potential volatility by including fixed income securities. It is composed of 60% equity and 40% fixed income and has a mid- to long-range investment time horizon.
The WELS Equity Fund seeks long-term capital growth by investing in a portfolio of equity securities that is well diversified by industry and company size. WELS Equity Fund is composed of 100% equities and has a long-range investment time horizon.
The WELS Income Fund seeks to provide income by investing primarily in investment quality debt securities. It is composed of 100% fixed income securities and has a short- to mid-range investment time horizon.
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Who can I contact for help?
Each of the 12 WELS districts has Christian giving counselors who know well the principles of Christian stewardship and can assist you making gifts to support WELS gospel ministry. There is no fee for the services of a counselor. He is qualified to assist you by:
WELS Church Extension Fund provides loans and grants to qualified mission congregations, so that through the acquisition of land and a ministry facility the gospel can be spread.
WELS Foundation exists to assist God’s people in support of God’s ministry through the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
WELS Investment Funds provides cost effective, professionally managed investment portfolios exclusively for WELS and affiliated organizations.