Official nominee source text
- Section
- LCMS Foundation Board of Trustees
- Office/position
- LCMS Foundation Board of Trustees
- Candidate category
- layperson
- Source page
- p. 59
- Election line
- Elect 1 minister of religion—ordained, 1 layperson (3-year term)
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Duties
T wo-day meetings four times a year. The board oversees a synodwide program of deferred giving for the advancement, promotion, endowment, and maintenance of the Synod and its agencies.
(2023 Handbook, pp. 131–33)
Qualifications
The Board of Trustees is responsible for the business, financial, property, personnel, and legal affairs of the LCMS Foundation. Board members should be experienced in financial, investment, or marketing matters. The Foundation’s goal is to link more and more Christians with giving opportunities as an expression of biblical stewardship; therefore, members of the board must be committed to managing life and all of life’s resources to fulfill God’s purposes by being linked with and supportive of the mission and ministry of the LCMS and organizations associated with it. As a synodwide corporate entity of the Synod, the Foundation provides current and deferred giving instruments for individual use and investment management services for legacies, bequests, endowments, annuity gifts, and other trust funds available under the law. In addition to serving individual stewards, the Foundation serves the Synod, its agencies, congregations, auxiliaries, recognized service organizations, and others under its bylaws and policies.
MINISTERS OF RELIGION—ORDAINED
Elect 1 minister of religion—ordained (3-year term)
Additional official source text
Mark O. Swenson, Plymouth, MN;
Glory of Christ, Plymouth MN (MNS);
LCMS 43; VP Investment Grp. S:
Mem. CPS BOD 12. O: Investment Mgr. 35.
The services provided by the LCMS Foundation help LCMS members and congregations be good stewards of their God-given gifts. The Foundation serves both through planning assistance and investment management of assets. I strongly support the work of the Foundation and wish for their continued growth, as their services can provide a long-term benefit to LCMS members and congregations and ministries. My background in institutional investment management would align with the role of the Foundation and help me serve as a trustee.
XII. Report on Candidates for The
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Foundation Board of Trustees Elect 1 minister of religion—ordained, 1 layperson (3-year term)
