Spreading the Gospel
Creative and Responsible Giving
Friends of One Mission Society provide daily examples of the finest in creative, responsible stewardship:
• To meet commitments to many OMS missionaries, one family used entrepreneurial skills to purchase a truckload of golf carts, sell them and then pass the profits back to OMS for missionary support.
• Others in business, like the team at U. S. Plastic Corporation, work hard to increase the profits of the company so that more funds can be given to further OMS global evangelism.
• After 30 years of building their own business, a retiring couple tithed on the sale of the company to help underwrite theological training in Haiti.
• A family completed a life estate gift of their home, allowing them to live in it for their lifetimes and also to receive a sizable current charitable deduction. Recently, they sold the property, and OMS and the family shared in the sale proceeds.
• For decades, an OMS friend and her colleague developed real estate toward the day that they established a charitable remainder trust in honor of their family, providing income for retirement and a substantial gift for future OMS ministry.
• A husband and his wife establish a new charitable gift annuity each year, providing for OMS future ministry and strengthening their income stream during retirement.
• Dozens of OMS friends, age 70½ years or older, ask their IRA custodians to directly transfer their required minimum distributions to benefit OMS ministries, reducing their taxable income and benefiting OMS missionaries and ministries.
OMS provides responsible oversight of your gifts through our Board of Trustees and strong leadership to ensure that those gifts are invested wisely.
Thank you for your partnership. We stand ready to assist you with creative, responsible stewardship that honors you and the Lord. Please contact Steve Hoffman for gift planning assistance at shoffman @ onemissionsociety. org or 719.648.5524.
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By Steve Hoffman, Gift Officer, One Mission Society