Financial Planning Ministry recently reached a milestone of having helped clients direct $2.5 billion to the ministries they support through estate planning. FPM, which started in 1982, is a nonprofit partnership of national charities dedicated to providing a path to sound biblical stewardship through donor estate planning. Among its more than 150 ministry partners are numerous Christian churches, educational institutions, and ministries.
FPM assists supporters of these ministries with planned giving and estate planning, helping them to bypass probate and other posthumous complications so they can leave more impactful and enduring legacies.
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News Briefs
Jessie Harden, adjunct professor of Restoration history, and Dr. Walter Zorn, professor emeritus of Old Testament and biblical languages at Lincoln Christian University, presented talks last week during Restoration Appreciation Week at Great Lakes Christian College.
On Tuesday, Harden shared “Rugged Restoration Unity: Pursuing Harmony on the Eve of the Civil War.” On Friday, Zorn presented “The Restoration Movement: Its Cliches, Slogans, and Mottoes.” The first 5 of the 10 he shared were . . .
• “Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”
• “In essentials, unity; in opinions, liberty; in all things, charity.”
• “The restoration of the New Testament church.”
• “No creed but Christ.”
• The church of Christ on earth is essentially, intentionally, and constitutionally one.”
You can access both of the talks via GLCC’s Facebook page. Hardin’s talk begins after about 19 minutes; Zorn’s starts at the 18-minute mark.
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On Jan. 1, Newark, Ohio’s Licking Valley Church of Christ will change its name to Rise Christian Church. Membership approved the change.
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Friends and strangers from the community and fellow members of Redemption Christian Church in Jasper, Ind., are helping the Stevens family clean out and start rebuilding their house after the structure was damaged by a tornado in August. Several weeks after the storm, Chris Stevens broke his leg in a mishap involving a ladder. “I’ve thought about how [all of these people helping] is a really great example of the body of Christ,” he told Tristatehomepage.com.
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To commemorate the founding of the Walt Disney Company 100 years ago (on Oct. 16, 1923), James Emery White produced an article on “7 Ways Disney Changed the Church” for Crosswalk.com.
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