Legacy Giving During a Pandemic
Session 2 of the Online Academy of Faith and Generosity was held on October 15, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Rev. Jeff Taylor and Kim Matthews, CLM, led a session called Legacy Giving During a Pandemic: Why, How and What.
Synopsis
Why promote legacy giving now? How do church leaders promote legacy giving during a pandemic? What are the tools people can use to create a planned gift? Explore all of these questions during an Online Academy session led by Rev. Jeff Taylor and Kim Matthews, CLM, entitled Legacy Giving During a Pandemic: Why, How, and What.
Video Recording
You can view a recording of the webinar at our Youtube Channel.
Resources
- The presentation slides can be downloaded at this link.
- Here is an example of a Gift Acceptance Policy from Discipleship Ministries
- Download the Liturgy for Dedication of a Gift
- Go here to find lectionary-based prayers of offertory prayers.
- This is a link to download the document with Planned Giving Newsletter articles that can be customized for use in your own church's publications. When you click the link, the Word document will download to your computer (you will remain on this page of our website).
- Download one-line planned giving reminders for your church publications.
- You can download sample bequest language and a sample Christian preamble (click the links), or visit our bequest page for all downloads and more information about bequests.
- For general information about planned giving, visit our website's planned giving pages.
Presenters
Rev. Jeff Taylor is the President of the United Methodist Foundation. The Foundation's Vice President is Kim Matthews. Jeff and Kim (whose bios on are this page) will be the presenters for this session.