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MIF
History
The Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA has deep roots in Lutheran tradition, going back to at least 1915, when this report from the Lutheran Mission and Church Extension Society was published:
"Whoever devised the loan system for building new churches without spending a dollar of the Extension Society's capital fund — since none of it is ever given "for keeps" — deserves a monument to their memory. Money, which continues in perpetual motion, being used over and over again, until the loan-fund needs of the Lutheran people shall have been supplied, throughout the entire length and breadth of the continent, is absolutely unique."
MIF
has continued this tradition of sound, faithful stewardship to
help meet the
capital building needs of
mission
congregations and
established
congregations, and
provide loans that
enable
ELCA-related
ministries to more effectively carry out their mission.
And
as always, the
tradition is based
on congregations and
their members,
synods and
ministries related
to the ELCA
investing in the
future of the
Lutheran church
through the Mission
Investment Fund.
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