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Donate to Columbia UMC
There are many ways to contribute to Columbia UMC. One way is by your tithes and offerings. Online via our safe and secure giving portal, you may set up a recurring draft or make a one-time gift. You may give through your bank’s online billing service, by cash or check. We also accept stock/security gifts.
Each year, we also encourage people to fill out a pledge card to provide an estimate of their giving to the church in the upcoming year. Pledges help us plan our budget and how we can best serve the ministry of Jesus Christ.
Estate Planning and Bequests
“Allowing our gifts to live long after we do.”
“One generation will praise your works to the next one, proclaiming your mighty acts.”
Psalm 145:4
The largest gifts to an endowment often occur when someone passes away, when the church is either a beneficiary of the donor’s estate, retirement account, or charitable remainder trust. Gifts to the church in lieu of flowers for the funeral are another common donation method.
Donating cash is probably the most common method, but there are other methods that may have better tax advantages for the donor. Gifts of property (real estate or securities) can be advantageous as can charitable remainder trusts, where the donor establishes a trust during their lifetime, uses the trust as long as they live and then specifies that, upon their death, the remaining amount go to the church.
In addition to bequeaths through wills and charitable remainder trusts, naming the church as one of the beneficiaries of a retirement account or life insurance policy may be a good alternative for some donors.