Planned Giving
Charitable Trusts

Consider this giving tool as a way to gain an early tax advantage, ensure that your funds make a lasting impact in world evangelization and, at the same time, provide funding for you and your family's needs.

Charitable Trusts are flexible tax-planning tools that enable you to defer estate tax, make a lasting missions impact through your investment, and still be able to plan income for needs you or your family may have now or in the future.

The trust options are varied and have complex names, but simple ideas.

Here are two examples:

1) Receive a lifetime income for you and your family and have the remainder go to fund missions
2) Let SEND receive income for a period and then later revert to funding your family needs.

If you would like to consider the wide range of options "with no strings attached", Dick Mills can serve you personally. Please contact him at dmills@send.org.

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Giving appreciated stock is a simple way of expanding your support to reach many more people for Jesus Christ.

Suppose you want to make a significant contribution to support your favorite SEND missionary or project, but you have limited resources. A tax savings could make your gift affordable. You may own stock that has really appreciated since you purchased it. If you sell the stock and give the money you will pay tax on the appreciation. If you give the stock directly to SEND, you do not pay tax on the appreciation, and yet you can claim a charitable contribution on the full value of the stock the day you give it,

For example:

If you bought stock for $5,000 and then gave it to SEND when it was worth $10,000, you would not have to pay tax on the $5,000 of appreciation. So our stock answer is, you save when you give appreciated stock. We can help you do it.

Just call Dick Mills at (248) 477-4210 or e-mail him (DMills@send.org) for complete information on your specific circumstances.

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When all is said and done . . .
What is only 'said', often does not get 'done'.

Will the path we've trod leave an impact for generations? As committed Christians, we carefully plan how we use our funds to help the people we love and to further the causes in which we believe. But, more than half of us don't have a plan for our resources after we go home to heaven.

Since SEND believes this is such an important part of stewardship, we have asked Dick Mills to spend all of his time helping SEND's financial partners plan for the final distribution of all that God has given them.

As our former Treasurer, Dick has been the steward of your giving to SEND for over twenty years. He understands investments, tax law, and planned-giving vehicles like wills, gift annuities, and charitable trusts. Dick would love to serve you in this area with no strings attached - just a servant to help you achieve your dreams with the resources God has entrusted to you.

Please contact Dick at DMills@send.org and he will send you a free copy of the "Guide to your Christian Will". It's a resource that will help you take this important step.

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