Home Equity Loans

LCEF's Home Equity Loan Program is designed to lend personal financial assistance to LCMS rostered church workers use the equity in their homes as collateral for a loan.

Home Equity Loans for Rostered Church Workers

Homeowners often use the money from these types of loans to pay off higher-interest debt, purchase an automobile, make large-scale home improvements, pay tuition or for other major purchases. Our home equity loans offer competitive and fixed interest rates that allow borrowers to consolidate bills into one monthly payment.

LCEF home equity loans are available to qualified applicants in approved states who have an existing first mortgage. Before submitting your application, please view the approved states in which LCEF is able to provide RCW housing loans.

Features:

  • Fixed rates so monthly payments remain the same for a specific period of time.
  • Competitive interest rates (often lower than credit cards and other consumer loans).
  • Interest payments may be tax deductible.*
  • Ability to consolidate several bills into one single payment.
  • Friendly, knowledgeable loan officers and servicing staff.
  • Internet and automated telephone access to loan information.

*Consult your tax advisor.

Program participants receive and give the "ministry dividend." We ask that you also invest with LCEF (in which you earn a competitive interest rate), and these invested dollars further help us help other church workers in the future. Your true investment is in helping others—just as others have helped you.

If you have questions, you may contact us or see the frequently asked questions.

Download an application.

Turn Mission Wishes to Realities

Have a "wish" list? Need funds to replace equipment, renovate space, add child-care services or make efficiency upgrades? LCEF is a trusted partner for architectural advice, a stewardship campaign, expert building assistance and a loan. Whatever the "wishes," LCEF can help make realities.

Big Events Support Churches, Schools

Planning a wedding, buying a new house or retiring in the near future? Targeting a specific date for some of your investments can help fund those plans. Term notes are invested for a specific period of time and remain yours to redeem at the end of the term or to re-invest. While invested, they are not only building your dreams, but helping fund a loan for a school or church.

LCEF is a nonprofit religious organization; therefore, LCEF investments are not FDIC-insured bank deposit accounts. This is not an offer to sell investments, nor a solicitation to buy. LCEF will offer and sell its securities only in states where authorized. The offer is made solely by LCEF's Offering Circular. Investors should carefully read the Offering Circular, which more fully describes associated risks.
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