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| How to Give a Gift Thank you for your desire to support the mission and ministries of Incarnation through your financial stewardship. Stewardship is grateful living. It involves the grateful and responsible management and use of all of God’s creation, including the wise management of our finances and generous sharing of our finances for the mission of Christ through our church. There are a number of ways to give your gift. In addition to sharing your offering during worship, you have the option of signing up for an automated giving program called Simply Giving, making an Online Gift/Donation, or by planned giving to the Endowment Fund. Simply Giving  Looking for a way to simplify your giving at Incarnation? The Art of Giving: Simply Giving is an automated giving program from Thrivent Financial Services designed to help you conveniently, consistently and joyfully share your financial gifts through electronic funds transfer (EFT). Incarnation is enrolled in the Simply Giving program and encourages this convenient way of giving. Through Simply Giving, your gifts are made through a pre-authorized withdrawal from your bank account (checking, savings or Thrivent OPTIMUM Account). You determine the frequency of your automatic gift – weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly – the option is yours and Thrivent pays all transaction fees. These funds are deposited on the same day into the congregation's bank account. Simply Giving brochures that contain authorization forms are available in the Incarnation office, or you may print an online form and forward it to Incarnation. For more information, call the Incarnation office or email incarnation@incarnationmn.org Online Gifts & Tuition Payments The descriptions below match giving catagories on the Online Donation form. To make a gift online, click here . Congregational Ministries is Incarnation’s general operating budget. It is the on-going ministry of the congregation including staff salaries, program resources, worship, and our benevolence to ministries beyond Incarnation through our ELCA, St. Paul Synod, Lutheran Social Servies, and other mission partners. It funds our daily ministry throughout the year. Build the Vision is the current building fund, to pay down the mortgage on the building. Holy Days include Wednesdays in Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Memorials are gifts to the church in the name of anyone who has passed away. The pastoral staff uses these funds as needed for special projects and church improvements, including purchasing new paraments for the worship spaces. Endowment Fund provides additional resources apart from regular giving for the enhancement of the mission and vision of Incarnation Church. The special feature of this fund is that the contributions are never spent; only the invested earnings are used each year. A contribution to the Incarnation Endowment Fund is a gift that keeps giving every year to complement Incarnation’s ministries. Many gifts are to the Endowment Fund in memory, similar to memorial gifts. The interest from the fund is used to fund scholarships and special requests. For more information about the Endowment Fund, click here. Preschool Tuition - If your child is enrolled in the Incarnation Preschool, you may make tuition payments online. To give a financial gift or make a tuition payment, click here - thank you! For more information about Stewardship Ministries, contact Pastor Glenn Taibl at gtaibl@incarnationmn.org or 651-484-7213. |
