Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is helping to support the Heiney family Guinea. Tim and Beth Heiney are serving as evangelistic missionaries to the Maninka people group in Guinea, West Africa. Tim is a 1983 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.  Beth holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Concordia University, River Forest, Ill. Beth home schools their two youngest children, Kathryn and Andrea. They also have two sons: Joel, who attends Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., and Jonathan, who is attending high school in Kansas City, Kan.

The Maninka are a numerous and widespread people group located throughout many West African countries. They are the second largest ethnic group in Guinea with a population of approximately two million. Most Maninka are Muslims, but many continue to practice their traditional or animistic beliefs. The Maninka are considered an un-reached people with Maninka Christian believers comprising less than one percent of the total population. Learn more about the Heiney Family, read their latest letters, or contact the church to learn how you can help in their mission.

Read about the Heiney family’s visit to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in September here.

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The concept of endowment is that the gifts are not spent by the congregation. Instead the gift is invested. The income earned through the dividends and interest is then made available on an annual basis for a specific purpose.

Gifts to the Endowment Fund are entirely future oriented - given in faith, from faith, to the everlasting church. A gift to the endowment fund is one way to perpetuate your generosity. For generations to come, gifts to the Endowment Fund will provide critical financial support for the mission and ministry of our congregation.

There are two ways to contribute to the endowment fund. Current gifts are those which may be placed directly into the endowment fund. These include contributions of cash, memorials, and appreciated assets (stocks, mutual funds, real estate, and personal property). Deferred gifts are those which will become fully available to the Endowment Fund at a later date, generally coinciding with the death of the donor or donor's spouse. Deferred gifts can be cash, real estate, stocks, mutual funds, personal property, life insurance proceeds, or another planned gift from a trust or estate.

Gifts to the Endowment Fund may be either designated or un-designated. Un-designated gifts, whether current or deferred, are gifts for which a use is not stipulated. The Congregational Assembly may annually distribute the earnings from un-designated gifts, and the gifts themselves, according to the needs of the congregation. Designated gifts give the donor the ability to designate how the earning from their endowment will be used by the congregation. This involves an endowment agreement between the donors and the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church Endowment Fund. The gifts are made to fund the endowment, either directly or through an estate plan.

The Endowment Fund is not intended to support our ministry, but rather to expand our ministry. The Endowment Fund is administered by a committee of church members appointed by the Church Council. We welcome any and all gifts to the Endowment Fund, and there is no minimum contribution. Please contact the church to learn more.