Make Tuition Payments Easy and Convenient

Making tuition payments easy and convenient for your school families is essential. LCEF offers the Joyful Response® program—a free financial stewardship service available to LCMS schools with an All Access Account at LCEF.

About Joyful Response

A complimentary program provided by LCEF, Joyful Response allows your school families to make tuition payments online or via mobile app. For a small fee through Vanco (charged to your school), your families may set up text payments or debit and credit card payments. This is an optional service that your school can choose to offer to your families for their giving preferences

Vanco is the organization who manages this program on behalf of LCEF.

How Joyful Response Benefits Your School

Joyful Response simplifies tuition payments with benefits that enhance your school’s operations and family experience:

Convenience
Families can pay tuition through your website or the Vanco mobile app.

Consistent
Lose the stress of remembering to send in the payment.

Efficiency
Your school saves on administrative costs, allowing more resources to be used where they matter most.

How to Get Started

Ready to streamline your tuition payments with help from your trusted partners at LCEF? To get started, follow this simple checklist.

Download the Guide to E-Giving.

If you do not already have an All Access Account with LCEF, open an account online or complete an organizational application and mail it to LCEF.
Once your account has successfully been opened and you have received an account number, enroll in the program online with Vanco.
Vanco will contact you by email or phone to assist you with setting up the dashboard to receive tuition from your school families.
Download flyers to share with your school families.
Tuition payments are deposited directly into your All Access Account.

Have A Question?

Contact our Customer Relations team to learn more about the Joyful Response program.