Planned Giving

Estate Planning encompasses many different facets and shows how we care about the future of our family and our church. Among all our loved ones for whom we carefully provide, our parish is an important living institution that has nurtured us in the faith, and therefore should have a claim on our hearts. Your will, life insurance, retirement plans and other planning vehicles may offer exceptional opportunities for leaving a lasting legacy for your parish. We thank God for the many benefactors of the past years and look forward with hope that many benefactors now and in the future will sustain our mission to serve, educate, worship, and minister.

Effective Christian stewardship calls for proper estate planning as a way of offering thanks to God for His goodness to us. The transfer of wealth from the GI generation to the Baby Boomers in now happening. We would like to encourage you to remember St. Raphael's Parish as you do your estate planning.

Ways to include St. Raphael Church in estate planning include:

• Wills and bequests

• Life income annuities

• Charitable reminder trusts

• Insurance programs

• Gifts of securities and other appreciated property

Many of these planning techniques help provide for the future of St. Raphael Catholic Community and offer significant tax advantages. The St. Raphael Parish Business Administrator can provide you with more information on estate planning and planned giving.

Should you chose to include the parish in your-long range estate and financial planning, please remember the parish's legal title is: