Online Giving
Simply Giving® is an automated giving program designed to help you conveniently and consistently contribute to a Lutheran congregation. Through Simply Giving®, your gifts are made through a pre-authorized withdrawal from your bank account or credit card. You determine the frequency of your automatic gift—weekly, semi-monthly or monthly—the option is yours. Your gift is deposited into Our Savior's bank account on the same day it is withdrawn from your account—at no cost to you or Our Savior's.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans offers Simply Giving® to further its mission of serving Lutheran congregations.
Simply Giving® is a reliable, safe way to move your stewardship plan into action. It allows you to share your gifts through planned giving and activates your generosity into ongoing stewardship. Because your gift is given consistently, you won't need to play "catch-up" at year-end or worry about forgotten checkbooks or missed Sunday offerings.
But you're not the only one that benefits. Our Savior's benefits from steady, more predictable revenues throughout the year, more efficient bookkeeping and greater confidence in meeting its financial commitments.
Simply click the "More Information" arrow above to complete an online form and start your regular giving to Our Savior's today! Simply Giving® title heading above to complete an online form and start your giving to Our Savior's today!
10 Stewardship Principles
As baptized members of the body of Christ, we gratefully confess Jesus as Lord and Savior. We boldly proclaim the gospel as the Word of God. We clearly recognize the gifts that God has first given us through grace, and we joyfully accept our role and responsibility as stewards. The following
10 Stewardship Principles provide a foundation for the life of a faithful and generous steward.
Responsibility to Care for Creation
Awakening to God's Call to Earthkeeping is a publication produced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Caring for creation is an essential component of religious faith and witness. Faithful "earthkeeping" can deepen our relationship both with God and with one another, as we work for the healing of the world. "For creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God." Romans 8:19
Many of us have been singing “For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies” since childhood. With April 22 being celebrated as Earth Day across the world, why not take a moment to reflect on the glory of God’s creation and look for ways to be good stewards of all that He has given us? Recycling, turning off lights when not in use, carpooling, even planting a tree are among many environmental stewardship opportunities we can practice as we remember “the love which from our birth, over and around us lies.”
You may also be interested in reading the ELCA social statement,
Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice, that was adopted by more than two-thirds majority vote by the third Churchwide Assembly on August 28, 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri.
