Legacy Club Estate Planning information for Churches

Thank you for your interest in wanting to encourage people to remember the LORD's work and your church or ministry in their estate plans.  A "Legacy Club" is a group of people that have indicated to you that they have or will be including your ministry in their estate plans.

Here are a number of resources that should be of help to you to implement a strategy to secure these type of generous gifts for your ministry:

• www.MyFamilyOrganizer.org - A valuable and affordable resource to give as a gift to church members.  This manual encourages and provides helpful forms so people will remember your ministry in their gifts of assets or in their estate plans.  This gift can be given out as a gift at Senior's lunches, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparent's Day, Thanksgiving, or Christmas.

• Denominational resources: Check with your denomination about estate planning professionals that can come and provide seminars and/or estate planning services to your members.

• www.Plannedgift.com: This organization can provide estate planning services through your church's website.

• Helpful article on the importance of receive estate planning donations for churches.

• "Financial Funnies" cartoons for use in church bulletins, brochures, newsletters, and mailings.

• www.GenerousLife.info Bible devotional (see below): This valuable resource helps to teach people to be generous with whatever resources God gives them (in their regular earnings, assets, and estate).

"40 Day Spiritual Journey to a More Generous Life"

THIS BESTSELLING BIBLE DEVOTIONAL has over 300,000 copies in print and has been used by HUNDREDS of churches to inspire generosity and increase giving for annual giving, building projects, or debt retirement.

This is one of the few resources available in America that was specifically written to teach and encourage greater Biblical generosity throughout an entire congregation!  Each congregation can decide the "best method" for using this booklet - - distributed churchwide to every family in the congregation and/or to use in small groups/classes. 

For more info - click here    For a downloadable sample - click here