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2004

The Foundation expands its ministry to serve as a resource for Alabama Baptists and Alabama and SBC ministries. The Foundation is an Alabama registered provider for Charitable Gift Annuities and is a member of the American Council on Gift Annuities (ACGA). Foundation staff continue professional designations in the areas of planned giving and estate planning matters.

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2005

The Foundation began a new focus on helping the local Church teach an often overlooked message on stewardship - planning our estates.

7 in 10 people will die without a will. These statistics are unfortunately the same whether one is a Baptist or not. If we truly believe the message in Psalm 24:1 and other verses that God is the owner of all we have bee blessed with, then we will conclude that what we do with our estate assets is an act of stewardship. In fact, this is perhaps the single largest act of financial stewardship any of us will ever undertake.

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2006

The results are in for the ministry to the local church since beginning this ministry in January of 2005. In just 16 of the more than 3,200 Alabama Baptist churches, more than $128 million in immediate and planned gifts have been designated by fellow Baptist who have discovered the significance of planning the estate through the eyes of a steward. Of this amount, more than $785 million is designated for the LOCAL church. When God's people hear, understand, and then apply biblical principles to estate planning - ministry is funded.

We are excited about the possibilities of this ministry and are already making plans to expand this initiative through implementing and ongoing ministry with the local church. For more information, contact Randy Driggers, vice president for development at 334-394-2001 or email tbfa@tbfa.org.

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