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Making a planned gift is a wonderful way to show your support and appreciation for Luther Seminary and its mission, while accommodating your own personal, financial, estate planning, and philanthropic goals. With smart planning, you may actually increase the size of your estate, save on taxes, receive income for life, or enjoy other financial benefits – all the while knowing that you have made a wonderful gift to Luther Seminary.


We recommend that you familiarize yourself with various gift options by exploring How to Give and What to Give tabs or download or request for free The Guide to Estate Planning or The Guide to Gift Planning. These resources will give you a basic understanding of gift planning and allow you to compare options that are best for you. And, of course, please contact us for assistance or to discuss your personal situation and goals.

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Removing Financial Barriers for Future Pastors

Removing Financial Barriers for Future Pastors

Gerrie Granquist is passionate about removing financial barriers for those called to be pastors. She took action on that passion by creating "The Widow's Mite Endowed Scholarship Fund" with a testamentary IRA designation to Luther Seminary.

"I support the Seminary because they are producing pastors whom we need so much," says Grandquist.

Grandquist's generous gift will help ensure that her church, Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minn., and other churches, may continue to benefit from excellent leadership.

"I was baptized at the church and it has always been a big part of my life," says Grandquist. "I've seen it transform people, including my grandson."

She wants to be generous with her sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren by providing an estate gift for them, and also wants to model her support of ministries she cares about, Luther Seminary and her church. By setting up the testamentary IRA designation to Luther Seminary, she is pleased to be accomplishing both of these goals.


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