By Jon Dize, CFRE
Director of Development & Strategic Initiatives
Many of our readers may remember the time when Lutheran Brotherhood and Aid Association for Lutherans combined in 2002 to form Thrivent Financial. While those former names have faded from memory, Worship Anew continues to be blessed by members of Thrivent Financial.
Depending on the type of investment or insurance product that you have with Thrivent Financial, you can direct funds to benefit some of your favorite charities and ministries, including Worship Anew. While there was a time when chapters would decide how to distribute charitable support from Thrivent, now you can decide what ministries can receive funding.
Thrivent Choice dollars have been an important support vehicle for us. Every month, we are notified of a combined gift coming our way thanks to many friends like you that designate their Thrivent Choice dollars to our ministry. In 2024 and 2025 alone, more than 160 friends of Worship Anew donated more than $35,000 to support the costs associated with our local and military broadcasts, this monthly magazine, and our Care Ministry.
If you are one of those friends, Thank You! We do not always receive the names associated with the gifts received, so please know that we thank God every month for your generosity.
If you are a Thrivent member who has not yet directed Thrivent Choice dollars to the ministry, you can go online to Thrivent.com or contact your Thrivent adviser and start the process. Please note that when you go to direct Choice funds to Worship Anew, we may be listed in their system by our legal name of “Lutheran Ministries Media, Inc.,” so be sure to make note of that detail.
You have to direct your Thrivent Choice funds by March of every year, so please consider supporting Worship Anew today, before the deadline of March 31 passes by and the funds expire.
Not only has Thrivent Choice been a blessing to us, but Thrivent’s Action Team grants have been integral to many of our events over the years, including our annual golf outing, our annual volunteer appreciation lunch, and our Care Ministry. Every Thrivent member receives two Action Team grants to direct every calendar year, so please contact our team at (888) 286-8002 to see how you can utilize an Action Team grant for the ministry in 2026.
As Matthew 6:21 (ESV) notes, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” How wonderful that so many of your “hearts” are directing this “treasure” to us.
When you choose to invest in our ministry, you are placing your heart into the work of sharing Christ’s love and hope with others.
Thank you for making an eternal impact through your generosity.