Naming Charities on Your Will is Serious Business

Recently the Canadian Council of Christian Charities suggested that estate-planners may not understand the importance of having charity names as the legal name on their will. See the next Messengers of Christ for more detail - available mid-October 2010.

To avoid issues, LBTC encourages you to add the following clause to your will:

"If any of the charitable organizations named in my Will has ceased to exist, or has amalgamated with another charitable organization, or has changed its name or objects, the bequest provided for the named charity shall not fail, but my trustee shall pay the same to the charitable organization which my trustee considers most closely fulfills the objects I intended to benefit."

Interested in Learning More About Estate Planning?

LBTC is linked with other Lutheran mission organizations in Canada through CLAIM which has an agreement to work with Lutheran Foundation Canada to assist individuals as they plan their finances today and after they have joined Christ in eternity.

Lasting gifts may be designated or undesignated and include gifts of shares, life insurance policies and much more. There are definite income tax savings when financial planning has been set up properly.

For more information about how LBTC will use your future gifts and other tips about estate planning, contact LBTC.

How Beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, Your God reigns!" NIV Isaiah 52:7

Rev David Maffett, LBTC Executive Director, uses this text to send a Christmas letter of joy to supporters of this organization. This letter will be posted soon.

Responding online is easy!

Yes, trusting in God who works through Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada - its translators and resources, and to bring people to faith through Bible translation and literacy work.

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Support Kwanja Language Program for Martin and Joan Weber

LBTC Translation Consultant Martin Weber and co-translators, Yuare Jerome and Nganko Emmanuel, are translating Old Testament readings into the Kwanja language.

LBTC Translator and Literacy Specialist Joan Weber and her co-workers continue their task of preparing course material and leading literacy classes at all levels.

The Webers are on furlough in 2012 and will return to new work upon their return to Cameroon in 2013.

Here's one of their prayer letters. Thank you for supporting them now and in the future.

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Support the Shiyeyi Language Program in Bostwana

LBTC Translator Eshinee Veith and her husband Rob are working for the Lutheran Church in Botswana in the Shiyeyi Language Program. Read more about their work and personal activities by clicking here. Support this project, click on the the CanadaHelps buttons above. Select the general fund and then comment in the message section that you wish you gift to support Eshinee. Thank you in advance for your support and prayers.

Support Other LBTC Projects

LBTC Missionary Candidates Rev Mike and Kara Kuhn are studying in Canada Institute of Linguistics in Langley BC. Support them while they study by clicking on the the CanadaHelps buttons above and selecting Candidate/Missionary recruitment and training. Thank you in advance for your support and prayers.

What is CanadaHelps?

A quick, easy and secure on-line donation option is to use CanadaHelps. LBTC has partnered with CanadaHelps which is a public charitable foundation that facilitates donations to over 80,000 charities ranging from national organizations to smaller groups. In only five years, they have assisted with distributing more than $10 million in donations annually.

You may specify how your gift should be designated. Thank you for sharing God's gifts to you with Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada. When you complete your transaction, your receipt will be generated automatically by CanadaHelps.

Prayer Support is how I would like to help!

I would like to support Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada in my prayers and would like to learn more about prayer support. Please click here.

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