Lisa Marie Higginbotham

ELCA Foundation planner

Lisa Higginbotham is a Regional Gift Planner with the ELCA Foundation, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She serves congregations, ministry organizations and individuals in Southern California, Arizona, and Hawaii, providing planned giving expertise as well as resources, financial education, and endowment management services to help clients joyfully answer the call to love and serve our neighbors. Lisa has a passion for providing sustainability in ministry funding through legacy planning and in helping donors to be intentional in their decisions to be generous.

She and colleague Josh Kerney partner with the Grand Canyon Synod on donor relationship development, gift policy implementation, stewardship of planned gifts, endowment, legacy gifts and Holy Closure/Merger.

Lisa and husband Ron, reside in California. When not on a church campus, you can find her community gardening, cooking for family, or raising Monarch butterflies.


Grand Canyon Synod Staff