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PLANNED GIVING

We at St. John’s have been blessed to have received endowment gifts from parishioners through the years that have helped fund past, present and future ministries and provided

The Kyle House was purchased and is maintained

largely with funds bequested to St. John's

for outreach and philanthropy.  Most of us are familiar with parishioner philanthropists such as Hal Elliott, May Catherine Huske, and Chink and Grace Smithson, and there are others, far too numerous to name, who have made legacy gifts that continue to fund the mission and ministries of St. John’s in perpetuity.  They exemplify the true meaning of Christian stewardship.   

The Vestry has decided to begin a formal Planned Giving Campaign at St. John’s beginning in 2008.  The purpose of starting a planned giving campaign is to educate and facilitate gifts to the church endowment during either the donor’s life, or after death.  Planned giving is part of the three-legged stool of Christian stewardship along with the annual Every Member Canvass and periodic capital campaigns.  A planned giving campaign works in concert with these other two legs of stewardship, but differs in that it can be started at any time, has no specific monetary goals, and has no end date.  Many churches in our diocese already have such campaigns in place.

John Holmes has agreed to chair the Planned Giving Committee.  According to Holmes,
“Our job will be to educate, promote, and facilitate planned giving by making donors aware of the variety of opportunities they have to make a gift that is right for them and the Church and to have the tools in place to make it happen.”  This will be done through mailings, seminars on legal, tax and estate planning, brochures, newsletter and journal articles and the like.  “We will be the sower of the seeds, the preparers of the soil, ‘…and some of the seed fell into good soil, where it came up and grew and bore fruit…’ (Mark 4:8).”

Expect to hear more about our Planned Giving Campaign in early 2008.  You can also learn more about planned giving through the Episcopal Church Foundation’s website www.EpiscopalFoundation.org. 

Planned Giving Committee Members
  Jim Kyle
  Mary Holmes
  Weyher Dawson
  Harvey T.  Wright II
  Bill Powell 
  Ramon Yarborough 
  Jim MacRae, Jr. 
  Jeff Baker
  Margaret Ann Player 
  Betty Rosenbaum 
  Richard Alligood 

 

  
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Senior Warden Jean Moore's message on stewardship can be found on the Every-Member Canvass page under the Stewardship link at left.

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