Endowment

Bon Air Baptist Church is endowed with a heritage of faith, buildings, and organizations as well as a story of community and national and international ministry that we did not invent but were entrusted with.

Someone has already trusted us to carry on their Christian stewardship with the gifts we
have already received.

Endowment Funds are witness to a larger dimension of stewardship by continuing to support the faith and ministries we love and want to support, even after we die.

Endowment Funds help the church do more than rely solely on the church’s ministry budget. The Endowment Fund is not a crutch upon which the church leans, but is, instead, a stepladder to help the church do more and reach even farther every year.

1. Meet the present generation’s needs.
2. Preserve money to take care of future
   needs.

The present generation’s gifts will proclaim to the next generation the need to be faithful stewards.

Contributions received into the fund grow, and part of the earnings are used for ministry. The investment of the Endowment Fund is done by the Endowment Team through professional fund managers who provide expertise and estate planning ministries for the perpetual support for our church. Elected by the congregation, the Endowment Team uses their collective wisdom and experience to make investment decisions.

There are several ministry area funds within the Endowment Fund. Gifts may go to one of the ministry area funds or to the Unrestricted Fund. The Endowment Team makes distributions as
needed to meet the needs of the church.

Contributions can help endow, perpetually, a ministry that has touched your life or that of your family and friends.

Make an impact on the lives of others by funding a ministry so it can reach countless people in the years to come.

Additionally, there are income, gift, estate, or capital gains tax advantages. Bon Air Baptist can put you and/or your attorney in touch with professionals who can discuss which gifts or bequests can be made in the most meaningful way to you, your family, and your church.

Anyone, including members and non-members of
Bon Air Baptist Church, may contribute to the fund.

Yes!

Contributions shouldn’t compete with regular ministry budget offerings. Gifts to the Endowment Fund should be separate from gifts to support the daily work of the church through the annual
ministry budget.

There are many ways you can contribute to the Endowment Fund. The most common are:

• Cash donation beyond a regular offering.
• Gifts in memory of a loved one or friend.
• A life insurance policy naming the
  Endowment Fund as the beneficiary.
• A gift of retirement funds.

Cash gifts can be made by check payable to Bon Air Baptist Church with “Endowment Fund” included on the memo line.
Gifts can be made online at bonairbaptist.org/give.

For more information about the Endowment Fund, call the Finance Office at 804.272.1475.