# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S33
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SYNOD REPORTS

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to the field. Similar stewardship measures are being taken in how
Synod’s national office carries out its fund-raising.
Trends in Giving—Fiscal Year 2010 through Fiscal Year 2012

The following charts (tables) are provided to show giving trends in
support of the LCMS and its various ministries carried out on behalf
of LCMS congregations and households.
Unrestricted Support

This chart reflects gifts and offerings, collected by LCMS congregations and forwarded to their respective districts, who pledge
unrestricted support for the national office and our work as a
denomination:
This chart represents gifts made in response to disasters that
occurred over the past triennium. Not included in this report are donations made in response to Hurricane Isaac and Superstorm Sandy,
which occurred during the 2013 fiscal year.

This chart reflects gifts and grants made by households, congregations, and organizations directly to the Synod’s national office over
the past triennium, which were unrestricted and utilized where needed
most as determined by Synod’s Board of Directors through the annual
operating budget. This is the same category where the 2013 National
Offering’s Together As Synod gifts will be applied.

Bequests

The following charts report bequests received from donors who
where called to their Lord over the past triennium. The first reports
on bequests given to the Synod without restriction and bequests that
directly supported the LCMS International Center.

Restricted Support

The following chart reflects direct gifts received from households, congregations, and organizations to support Synod’s work at
the national and international level. Included are gifts to LCMS World
Mission and LCMC World Relief and Human Care (under the old
structure), and gifts to the Office of International Mission and Office
of National Mission (under the new structure), including funds shared
by both offices for non-disaster, mercy-related work.

This chart reports on bequests that were restricted by donors for
the support of Synod’s witness work (inlcuding work carried out by
LCMS World Mission ahead of the restructuring and now by the
Office of International Mission and Office of National Mission),
mercy work (including the efforts of LCMS World Relief and Human
care prior to restructuring, and now the Office of National Mission
and Office of International Mission), and life together work carried
out through the various department and ministries, now administered
through the Office of National Mission.

2013 Convention Workbook