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Welcome to the donations and payments page for the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin-ELCA. In addition to making online payments for events, and other requests please consider donating to the synod. Your donations allow us to continue to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with our local communities and beyond. Donations are accepted via check or credit card online. You can set-up recurring donations online as well using a credit card or automatic ACH withdrawals from your bank account.

As a synod we expand our mission through your support. Every week, Lutherans across the country gather to worship. Together we experience the way of Jesus and discover community, justice and love. As part of this experience, many of us give to our local congregation. Every year, ELCA members give about $1.6 billion as regular offerings to ELCA congregations and worshiping communities. When you give your offering, most of it stays with your local congregation to fund its vital work. A portion — about 5%, on average — becomes Mission Support, given by your congregation to your synod. Mission Support ensures that your synod can find and equip leaders of all ages and deploy an array of ministries, including those of synod companions and those for youth and young adults. Our synod also gives a portion of this Mission Support to your ELCA churchwide organization to back our shared work across the country and around the world. Mission Support is possible only because of your congregational offering. Learn more about Mission Support at livinglutheran.org/SOFIA. Where does your offering go? The video below shares how your individual donations and Mission Support from congregations and synods impact life-changing work in our communities and around the world.

The Mission Support our synod provides to the ELCA is used in the following ways:

The South-Central Synod of Wisconsin-ELCA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. All gifts which are not used to pay for an event or service are tax deductible as allowed by law.