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Your Foundation at Work
Thank you for visiting our Foundation website. You will find it full of useful information to help you with your planned giving, endowment development, and capital campaigns. Feel free to download anything on the site. If you have any problems downloading or wish additional information feel free to contact any one of us listed throughout the various pages. God bless you for the work you are doing for Jesus Christ and His people.
Weathering a Recession
Annual Conference is now in our past. It was such a successful meeting of minds committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ for everyone in attendance. The theme, Passion in Christ, Compassion for All, was felt throughout the four days. If you missed the Conference, be sure to plan to attend next year.
At the Annual Conference, your United Methodist Foundation was there to help churches and individuals understand how it can help in promoting higher levels of stewardship through planned giving, endowments, and capital campaigns. We also introduced our newest booklet entitled Weathering a Recession and distributed approximately 600 copies. This booklet, developed by the Foundation’s Capital Campaign Team, lists 16 concrete ideas any congregation can use to support one another and your church. If you did not receive a copy, stop by our offices in West Sacramento or Santa Rosa for a free copy. If you cannot stop by either location, download the 8.5X14 PDF file of the booklet here.
New Planned Giving Section
We would like to bring to your attention our new Planned Giving web page. Good planning requires good information. By accessing our new up-to-date Planned Giving website (www.canvumfgiving.org) you will find helpful information to assist you in creating the gift plan that is right for you. Come visit our web site, and then call us with your questions. We are here to enhance your church’s endowment and to aid you in planning a gift that has benefits for you and for your church.
Successful Investment Management
Our investment performance figures are updated monthly, normally by the end of the first full week of the succeeding month. Feel free to compare the Foundation’s performance against other investment managers. Although we continue to focus on socially responsible investing and take a moderately conservative approach to investing with your church’s funds, you will see that we have been successful in controlling the losses during this very difficult economic time. If you wish to learn more about investing with the Foundation, please do not hesitate to contact Cheri Kraus (Toll Free: 800-863-8750 or cksrca@aol.com) or me (Toll Free: 888-789-7374 or celestec@canvumf.org) directly. My direct line phone number is 916-374-1581.
$100 Winner!
At Annual Conference the United Methodist Foundation had folks dropping by their booth to put their business cards in our fishbowl hoping for the opportunity to win the $100 Cokesbury Gift Certificate. The drawing was
held Friday immediately after the morning session recessed for lunch. Board Director Reverend Charles Smith of Nevada City UMC pulled the winning ticket.
Earl Armantrout, husband of Pastor Pamela Coy-Armantrout of the Mt Shasta UMC, was the lucky winner. Earl went right up to Cokesbury and put the certificate to good use. You may have seen him at booth #1 reading his new book on Saturday!
Congratulations, Earl!
Celeste Maia Cron
530-304-5524
Susan Peters,
530-957-8654
Angela Slaton
916-717-5573
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