For months, students from four Concordia universities conducted research, designed marketing plans and rehearsed presentations leading up to April 20: the day of the LCEF National Student Marketing Competition. Members from each team traveled to St. Louis and pitched their ideas to attract new and younger investors to LCEF. We captured some of the highlights of the day in this video.

| New Mission Starts | 4.125% |
| Congregational | 4.500% |
| Specialized Ministries | 2.500% |
| RCW Mortgage APR | 3.590% |
| StewardAccount® | 0.375% - 1.000% |
| Family Emergency | 1.125% |
| 5-Year Term Note | 1.625% |
Educate those you love as to what is truly important about how you’ve invested. In your life’s journey, you may have invested to buy a house, send your children to college or for unexpected expenses. Maybe you’ve used it for retirement. Explain to your loved ones how your LCEF investment has helped create places for sharing the Gospel and supported ministries seeking to help their communities.
Shopping around for rates? Consider the “ministry dividend” earned with an LCEF investment. Your investment helps Lutheran organizations and church workers borrow at reasonable rates, which can help create ministry and education opportunities. That’s a return that lasts for generations.
Examples of remarkable structures that celebrate our faith will be honored through the Architectural Advisory Committee's Art and Architecture Award program. Find out how your church, school or ministry can participate. The deadline for entry is June 15, 2012. Awards will be presented during the LCEF Fall Leadership Conference in November.