Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received (NRSV 1 Pe 4:10).
On Reformation Sunday, October 26th, Kirk Barrett with the Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest will be here for a special Legacy presentation. The Lutheran Foundation helps facilitate and manage legacy giving by providing an avenue for perpetual financial support to a variety of ministries and non-prophet organizations. The Lutheran Foundation was founded in 1979 in Austin as a Christian Foundation with stewardship principles and priorities. Their primary goal is to lift up stewardship without taking inheritances away from family or heirs as a way of planned sharing.
The Foundation is comprised of a dedicated staff focused on serving individuals and families with end of life giving that allows resources to be shared with family and ministries to match the donor’s passions, values, and faith. They use financial planning and wealth management tools to best capture benefits to both donor and ministry. The Foundation is a team at the ready to help regular people with endowment program design, implementation and management, educating people about how planned giving can benefit people for many years to come.
Following worship on October 26th, Kirk will be here to offer more information about how the Foundation helps tailor specific plans for specific families. We’ll have a sign up sheet for a light lunch and the presentation shouldn’t last more than an hour. He will remain after for private conversations. We haven’t had anyone out from the Foundation for awhile, but each time that we have, people have been surprised at how easy and efficient their system is and how easy it is for an estate to benefit both heirs and ministries. There is never any pressure “sales” type agenda and this is for informational consideration only. Again, I think you’d be glad you made the time to hear about alternatives for your estate planning.
Peace,
Pastor Ernie +