Posts Tagged ‘legacy giving’
Does Your Financial Plan Include Giving?
In the early years of our marriage, my wife Sharon and I often sat through our pastor’s annual sermon on tithing consumed by the feeling that we should do more. A serious discussion always followed, but with monthly bills, a mortgage, car payments, and school fees for our daughter, it was difficult to find the…
Read MoreA Practical Legacy
Inspired and adapted from “Leave a Legacy” A Lasting Impression We all want to be remembered for contributing something to the world. Those in positions of great power go down in history for the things they accomplish. But for the rest of us, it isn’t so clear. Most of us won’t change the world on…
Read MorePlant a Giving Tree!
A young couple plants a honeycrisp tree and dreams of their children swinging from its branches. A family plants a backyard crabapple looking forward to jars of jelly. A retired couple landscapes the lawn of their third home with a stand of Goodland saplings. They all know they’ll have to wait several years before they…
Read MoreA Legacy of Giving
A few weeks ago, we welcomed our first grandchild into the world. Amidst my great joy, I have recently found myself reflecting on the incredible responsibility of raising children. Scripture advises that if we “train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it”…
Read MoreLegacy Giving
You can make a difference during your lifetime by giving generously. In the same way, at the end of life, you can leave gifts with the people you love and with the causes you care about most. Abundance Canada makes it easy to give now and through your will. Using Abundance Canada to distribute your…
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“John” was an Abundance Canada client who was passionate about supporting charities that he loved. To ensure their support after he was gone, his will earmarked a significant portion of his estate for these charities – distributed over a period of 20 years. He also set up undesignated charitable funds stipulating that his children would…
Read MoreThe Many Ways You Can Give
When you think of giving, what comes to mind? Writing a cheque to your favourite charity? Or buying an apple from the boy scouts? There are various ways you can give. Here are a few: Giving from Your Income Giving as you earn your income is a way of declaring God first in your finances…
Read MoreUndue Influence
Back in 2011, I met with an elderly person to help her with will and estate planning. “Maggie” wanted to name a couple of friends as executors. She also wanted to gift her entire estate to a lone surviving family member, even though Maggie didn’t have much contact with her. She was Upset and Unable…
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