Jay Link, a former pastor and the founder of Stewardship Ministries, once got an email with a subject line: “You can live on less when you have more to live for.” This is someone who chooses to voluntarily reduce his/her current lifestyle. Link says that to choose to live on less, there would have to […]
I have been wondering what is a millennial? I found that a Millennial is a person who has come into “adulthood” in the early 21st Century. Millennials are also known as Generation Y. These are people born between the 1980s and the early 2000s. Often the children of baby-boomers, millennials are the largest generation in […]
Are you a United Methodist Lay Person? I’ve been in the United Methodist Church all my life and have wrestled with role of both pastor and lay person. The biggest success story I have witnessed is when the laity and the clergy understand their roles and work together. Nearly all the leaders in the […]
Join us for one of the Wills Seminars this fall. The Fall schedule is: September 28, 2019 Corinth UMC @ 10:00 am 4997 St. Paul’s Road, Goochland, VA October 26, 2019 Ivey Memorial UMC @ 10:00 am 17120 Jefferson Davis Highway, South Chesterfield, VA November 23, 2019 Eastland UMC @ 10:00 A.M. 10718 Courthouse Road, […]
Church members who make pledges give more than those who do not. Churches who have Stewardship Campaigns have higher levels of giving. Here are some action items that might help your Stewardship Campaign. Choose a time when most of your people will be present. This is usually in the fall after summer vacations. Make sure […]
The Bible is full of caution lights. I John 2:15 says, “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” John 3:16 says, “God so loved the world that He gave…. E.G. Link has identified “caution lights” that should warn […]
There are all kinds of ways to give to your church. We all give weekly or monthly to pay for salaries, lighting and heat, etc. Planned Giving is what we do in addition to tithe and offerings. There are three kinds of Planned Giving: The first is to give the church an outright gift of […]
RMD stands for Required Minimum Distribution. The IRS requires that you start taking withdrawals from your qualified retirement accounts once you hit age 70 and one-half. The withdrawal is based on your prior year’s December 31st account balance and an IRS table based on your age. Required Minimum Distribution rules exist to prevent you from […]
The question of “How Do You Calculate How Much You’re Worth?” is a difficult question and often depends on who wants to know. There are several valuation methods. Method 1 We need to value our life worth rather than our net worth. The last thing we want to do is spend our lives climbing the […]
Port Republic United Methodist Church is a small church in the Village of Port Republic, close to Harrisonburg, VA. It has a river flowing on each side and it is in one of the prettiest spots in the Shenandoah Valley. This church has a vacation bible school every summer that is wonderful. This year the […]