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Life insurance - designed to protect our loved ones. In situations where life insurance has served its original purpose, it can be a wonderful and significant gift to the church. The church receives the promise of an eventual gift while you may receive income and estate tax benefits.

Different Ways to Gift Life Insurance

1.) Gift an Existing or New Policy:
Make your church the owner and irrevocable beneficiary of your life insurance policy.

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The McCoys Kill Two Birds With One Stone

About six weeks ago Harry McCoy received an e-mail message from a totally unknown sender, congratulating him on a recently-announced appointment. Rather than just let it pass, Harry felt led to call the e-mail sender, who turned out to be representing a charitable institution, and who introduced Harry to the idea of a charitable gift annuity to benefit the institution.

Thanks, Lela Dortch Dixon Thanks For The Nice Flowers
By: Allen Kennedy, Endowment Committee Chairman

By now you have probably noticed the nice flower beds in front of the sanctuary and Cheek House. If I asked you to guess where the money came from to pay for them, I’ll bet you’d say from our operating budget. And if you said that, you’d be wrong. Lela gave us those flowers, even though she died in 1961, 44 years ago. What? you say. How’d she do that? And who was Lela Dortch Dixon, anyway?