Mid-Atlantic UM Foundation

“Building financial resources for ministry.” The Mid-Atlantic United Methodist Foundation serves the financial stewardship and investment needs of churches in the Eastern Pennsylvania, Baltimore-Washington, and Peninsula-Delaware conferences, providing valuable information, education and investment management services consonant with United Methodist principles. Their services include stewardship education and planned giving counsel. Their goal, as a ministry partner, is to help the conferences and churches invest, grow, manage and utilize funds for enhanced ministry to achieve the denomination’s mission to “make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.”

Envisioning “financially healthy conferences, congregations and leaders to multiply God’s work in the world,” the Foundation’s mission is to “Educate church leaders about effective stewardship and grow financial resources with our ministry partners.” They strive for excellence, transparency and socially responsible investing.

An independent organization, the Foundation, is headquartered at the Eastern PA Conference Center. For information contact them at 484-762-8247, or email jackbrooks.mafoundation@gmail.com.

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Why people don’t leave a legacy gift to your church

Jack Brooks, Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic United Methodist Foundation, will explore the motivation of today’s donors who plan legacy gifts, how a church supports them during that journey, and also the top reasons why donors change planned gifts or never even consider them in the first place. Attend this informative stewardship discussion Nov.  8, at 6:30 to 8:30 PM (or come for dinner first at 5:30) at Holy Cross UMC’s Reading Campus, 329 N 5th St, Reading. The Rev. Kent Kroehler, Stewardship Chair of the Mid Atlantic United Methodist Foundation, will offer devotions. Register today.

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The Mid-Atlantic United Methodist Foundation

The Mid-Atlantic United Methodist Foundation has been established by merger in 2010 for the purpose of fostering and supporting benevolent ministries in the name of Jesus Christ, and to serve as an extension of the religious, charitable and educational endeavors of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church, the Peninsula Delaware Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, and the Baltimore Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church. We are incorporated under the Nonprofit Corporation Law of Pennsylvania exclusively for charitable purposes and are intended to be a public charity under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as a 501(c) non-profit corporation. Continue Reading

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Academy for Church Finance Consisting of four sessions taken over two years, the Academy for Church Finance seeks to enhance the understanding and skills of laity for financial leadership in the local church so that laity and clergy work in partnership to grow healthy congregations. Up to 20 clergy-lay teams from each of our three member conferences (Eastern PA, Peninsula-Delaware and Baltimore-Washington) may register. Location: Baltimore-Washington Conference Mission Center, 11711 East Market Place, Fulton, MD Session One—A Theology of Stewardship and Personal Finance. Date: October 7, 2017 Session Two –Organizing for Effective Stewardship and Creating a Culture of Giving. Date: March 17, 2018 Session Three— Best Practices for Church Finances and Using Vision and Mission Budgets. Date: October 6, 2018 Session Four— What We Can Learn from Community Fund Raisers and Planned Giving. Date:  March 23, 2019 Website Info: midatlanticfoundation.org/financial-leadership-academy Read the article: “Academy for Church Finance to train church teams”

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