Automated Giving Through Your Bank Account or
Simply Giving® Program Through Thrivent

The GivingPlus® Program through Thrivent

Give the gift of Camp

Gift of Stocks or Securities

Planned Givings, Wills, Bequests, and Estates

Charitable Gift Annuities

Examples of How Your Gift Can Impact Our Ministry

Automated Giving Through Your Bank Account via Electronic Fund Transfer
or by the Simply Giving® Program Through Thrivent
Electronic Fund Transfers (EFT) are designed to help you conveniently and consistently gift to our camping ministry. These transfers can be done weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly directly to Living Water Ministries or one of our camp facilities. You may participate by downloading the EFT form, completing it, and mailing it to Living Water Ministries. Or if you would like additional information, please contact Mary Krauss at (989) 848-2230.

When you sign up for automated giving, we would like to thank you with a free Michi-Lu-Ca or Stony Lake hoodie. Please indicate on the EFT form your preference and size.

Download the EFT Form
This form was omitted by the printer from our recent donor mailing.


Simply Giving® is a new automated giving program from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. It’s designated to help you conveniently, consistently and joyfully give financial gifts to our camping ministry. By participating in Simply Giving®, you can use electronic funds transfers to give your weekly, semi-monthly or monthly offering to our ministry. To learn how you can participate in Simply Giving®, contact Mary Krauss at (989) 848-2230 or download the Simply Giving® form at the link below:

Download the Simply Giving® Form

Let Simply Giving®, help you build better stewardship by turning a simple choice into a generous response.


The GivingPlus® Program through Thrivent
A gift to Living Water Ministries can accomplish even more. If you are a Thrivent member through the GivingPlus® Program, your financial gift will be supplemented by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans at 50 cents for every dollar that you donate. For complete details you can download a brochure and application at http://www.thrivent.com/fraternal/churchcommunity/pdf/GivingPlusApplication.pdf
Once you’ve completed your application mail it to us for processing at:
Living Water Ministries
3506 Garling Road
Fairview, MI 48621


Give the gift of Camp
If you’d like to share the love of Christ through camp with other youth in need and don’t know how, consider these six possibilities:

Gift of Stock or Securities
Living Water Ministries in partnership with The ELCA Foundation can receive gifts of stock or securities. Such donations offer a tax benefit to the donor by avoiding the capital gains tax. If you would like to make such a donation click on the link below for the ELCA Foundation website direction or call Mary at Living Water Ministries at (989) 848-2230 for additional help.

Instructions on how to give the gift of stock certificates


Planned Giving, Wills, Bequests and Estates
Living Water Ministries in partnership with our ELCA Synod offices have a wide variety of Planned Giving and Estate planning options for ensuring your lasting legacy with Living Water Ministries while also helping to provide a secure income in your retirement. For additional information and consultation regarding your planned giving, please call Dan Smith at (989) 848-2230.

Living Water Ministries welcomes and appreciates gifts via a Will or Bequest. To ensure your Will or Bequest is as specific and accurate as possible, please remember to use our official legal name:

Living Water Ministries, A shared ministry of the Lower Michigan Synods of the ELCA.

Please also inform us of your decision to include us in your Will or Bequest so we can demonstrate our appreciation.

Charitable Gift Annuities
By making a gift of cash or securities to Living Water Ministries through the ELCA Foundation you provide yourself with a guaranteed annual income for the rest of your life. When you make your gift, Living Water Ministries and other ministries of the ELCA you elect will receive the remaining portion of your annuity after your passing. You not only enjoy the potential of an annual income, but may receive significant financial and tax advantages. The ultimate satisfaction comes in knowing you are making an important contribution that will support Living Water Ministries for years to come while having financial security of the ELCA Foundation.
Charitable gift annuities may be written for one or two lives. The minimum age for income beneficiaries is 35 years old. Younger donors may wish to explore the option of a Deferred Payment Charitable Gift Annuity. Below are the latest rates for one or two life annuities.

For more information or to purchase a gift annuity,
please call Dan Smith at (989) 848-2230


Examples of How Your Gift Can Impact Our Ministry
$115 Provides a scholarship for one camper who otherwise couldn’t attend camp.

$250. Underwrites the cost of fuel for one week of Day Camp.

$500 Underwrites the one month cost of utilities in our Red Pine unit or the LP Gas for one month at Stony Lake

$1,000 Underwrites the cost of programming supplies at one camp for one summer.

$2,500 Underwrites the cost of one staff member for one summer.