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Check out the new online wills planner!  It is designed to help you gather the information an attorney will need to plan for your future and assist him in creating estate planning documents.




Estate Planning

The primary goal of estate planning is to protect, preserve and manage your estate if you die or become disabled.  Some people may see no need for estate planning until they reach a certain age, or they might believe that it's only for the wealthy. But in truth, it's wise for everyone to begin the estate planning process as early as possible. 

Why is estate planning so important? Because it allows you to accomplish a number of crucial objectives: 
  • Help ensure that your money and other assets go to the people you choose. Without a plan, state laws will determine your beneficiaries.
  • Specify who will care for your minor children if you become unable to.
  • Opportunity to leave something to a favorite ministry or charity.
  • Defuse potential conflicts over the distribution of your assets.
  • Minimize estate taxes and other transfer taxes.
  • Help to avoid the costs, publicity and delays of probate, the legal process used to value your estate, settle any debts, pay taxes and transfer assets to your heirs.
  • Help ensure that you and your affairs are taken care of in the manner you wish if you should become incapacitated.
Without an estate plan, the fate of your assets and your loved ones may be decided by attorneys, local and state goverment and tax agencies. Taxes and attorney's fees can eat away at your estate, and distribution of your assets could be delayed at a time when your heirs need them most. 

So why doesn't everyone have an estate plan? Aside from a natural reluctance to face our own mortality, some people are put off by the belief that estate planning will be complicated, time consuming and costly. In fact, setting up an estate plan doesn't have to be a complex process. 

Nearly 70% of families do not have an estate plan or a plan that meets their needs at this time.  To get started in creating your estate plan, call our toll free number and request the free estate planning data guide. 

Stewardship Ministries would like to partner with our Wesleyan churches this year as well through the presentation of our Estate Planning workshop. Your congregation will be given the opportunity to create their own estate plan.  Click "Request Info" to the left to schedule a workshop or request the Free Estate Planning Data Guide.

The workshop will walk your people through the process of creating estate planning documents. It will cover topics such as wills, probate, estate taxes, power of attorney, and revocable living trusts.  Individuals or families will have the opportunity to sit down privately with a Stewardship Ministries representative to answer any questions and complete the estate planning data guide.  Call 800-627-2537 to schedule the workshop at your church or click on the "Request Info" link to the left.    Fees for creating these documents can be found in the data guide.

FIFDoes your church need to raise some funds to renovate or start a new construction.  How about to purchase land to start a new ministry.  Maybe the church would just like to reduce the debt in order to increase ministry.  Now is the time to start planning your next big ministry move.  Stewardship Ministries also has a capital campaign service that can provide your church with resources that will enable you to move up to the next level of ministry.  Start that next phase of ministry your church has been planning for years!  Give us a call for information on our Building God's Way - Forward in Faith capital campaign service.

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