Communicating With You

By: Barry G. Allen- President & CEO

Every charitable organization, the KBF included, faces three major challenges: (1) the communication challenge; (2) the cultivation challenge; and (3) the competition challenge.

The cultivation challenge for us is to have the opportunity to encourage, educate and enable every adult Kentucky Baptist to have a Christian estate plan. An effective way to do that is to receive an invitation from a church or an adult group in the church to conduct one of our Christian estate stewardship education seminars. We have nothing to sell, and we do not twist anybody’s arm to do anything; it’s purely an educational experience.

With more than 1.5M charitable organizations seeking to tap into the greatest generational wealth transfer in history, the competition among these organizations, including churches and church-related organizations, has become fierce, thus the competition challenge. Our greatest concern is charitably minded individuals will become confused about which organizations to support, and as a result will become desensitized in their giving. We remind them as Christians in the matter of financial stewardship our first loyalty is to Christ through our churches and other Great Commission service ministries.

The communication challenge is our greatest challenge. Since information and news is received in so many different ways today, it is a challenge for us to disseminate effectively the information we want to share via all of the different media methods people are using. The cost of communicating is also part of the challenge. As a religious organization we must maximize the stewardship of the limited financial resources available to us.

As we look to future we would like to communicate with you via email. And we pledge never to share your email address with anyone else. We shall appreciate you providing us your email address either by email response to me at barry.allen@kybaptist.org or by telephone at 502.489.3533, or toll free Kentucky only at 866.489.3533.

Also, please “Like” us on Facebook if you are a Facebook user – and – share our page with others any time you find it useful.

The information in this article is provided as general information and is not intended as legal or tax advice. For advice and assistance in specific cases, you should seek the advice of an attorney or other professional adviser.

Somebody To Turn To

By: Barry G. Allen, President & CEO 

One of the discoveries I’ve made in my 16+ years as KBF president is a large number of Kentucky Baptist church members do not know to whom to turn for information about simple, basic but important estate stewardship issues, and about Christian estate stewardship in particular.

Among the reasons the Kentucky Baptist Foundation was established sixty seven years ago in 1945 as the “trust agency” for Kentucky Baptists was to provide Kentucky Baptist church members a reliable resource to which to turn for information about their basic estate stewardship and charitable gift planning questions. The information we provide is not legal or tax advice. Church members will still need their own advisors.

KBF staff members are available to provide information by telephone, by email and by an in person visit in our office or at the church member’s home.

We can be contacted in any of the following ways: (1) call toll free (KY only) telephone number 866.489.3533 or 502.489.3533; (2) write us at P.O. Box 436389, Louisville, KY 40253-6389; or (3) browse our website www.kybaptistfoundation.org for email contacts.

If you prefer to browse the website, before contacting us or in lieu of contacting us, you may find the information you need, because the website was designed to be a user friendly 24/7 source of information about estate planning, charitable gift planning and legacy gift planning as well as information about the services of the KBF to church members and to churches.

Let me also encourage you (1) to follow us and “like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KentuckyBaptistFoundation; we post articles regularly about estate stewardship and others giving ideas; (2) subscribe to the Western Recorder print or on line version to which Laurie Valentine and I contribute articles on a regular basis; (3) follow me on Twitter @KBFBarry; and (4) call us to subscribe to our quarterly newsletter, Living Legacy.

Please know your Kentucky Baptist Foundation has stood “steadfast and solid since 1945” and continues to be that “somebody you can turn to” for information by the communication method most convenient and desirable to you to answer your simple, basic but important estate stewardship and charitable and legacy gift planning questions.

The information in this article is provided as general information and is not intended as legal or tax advice. For advice and assistance in specific cases, you should seek the advice of an attorney or other professional adviser.