Gift Planning
Gift Planning benefitting you and LCMS
Enhance your legacy to your family and continue your legacy supporting God's mission through the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Through a planned gift to the LCMS, enabled by a LCMS Foundation Gift Planner, you may:
- Increase your annual income
- Eliminate capital gains tax on assets
- Gift the most appropriate/favorable assets to heirs and to the ministry you love
- Receive a significant tax deduction
- Lower your potential estate tax
- Assure the transfer of your fullest possible estate value to heirs
- Increase possible gifts to heirs and grandchildren
The easiest gift – designating LCMS as a beneficiary
Perhaps the easiest way to leave your legacy, sharing the Gospel, through your Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is by including the LCMS as a designated beneficiary or contingent beneficiary of your:
- Life insurance policy
- IRA, TSA or other deferred plan
- LCEF Certificate
- CD
- Other equity asset
Resources
Contact Information
Allen Helms
LCMS Foundation - Senior Vice President
314-996-1684
Gift Planning Staff - Directory