STANLEY & EMILY KEYES LEGACY GIFT TO BFM – TO BE ALLOCATED TO OUR VETERAN MISSIONARY PENSIONERS
Anyone who has attended our Conferences over the past 30 years will know and recognize Stanley and Emily Keyes. They began attending our Conferences back during the 1990s while Louis Maple was their pastor. They loved the missionaries who partner with BFM. Sister Emily went to be with the Lord just 2-3 years before Brother Stanley. He continued to attend our Conferences by himself until he also joined her here more recently. When he was called to Heaven, we received the most generous gift of $75,000 which they had bequeathed to BFM in their will. We have allocated their Legacy Gift to the support of our Pensioners. Their generous gift will supply the service pensions for our Veteran Missionary Pensioners for several months. We bless them, and more, we bless God for putting His Grace into their hearts to continue to love our missionaries in this way. We pray others will follow their example and do likewise.
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LEGACY GIFTS – PLEASE CONSIDER REMEMBERING OUR PENSIONERS IN YOUR WILL
Ever since our Traditional Pension Fund was established years ago, that Fund has been supplied by numerous generous gifts that have been given to BFM. Some have donated properties to BFM and the sales of those properties have been allocated to our Pension Fund. Others have bequeathed Legacy Gifts to BFM in their wills. These gifts have sustained the on-going ministry of helping to support our Veteran Missionary Pensioners in their senior years after they are no longer physically able to continue their active on-the-field service. This is just another way you can perpetuate your partnership in missionary support for years to come. We pray you will consider helping our missionaries in this way also.
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A Very Generous Legacy Gift to BFM
Brother Jerry Burkette was a long-time faithful and generous supporter of Baptist Faith Missions during his lifetime. Then, when he was called Home to Heaven, he bequeathed a generous portion of his estate to be given to Baptist Faith Missions. So, in response to his request, BFM has received the most generous legacy gift of $98,387.18. We are thanking God for this gift and we bless Brother Burkette’s response to the grace of God given to him.
Since Brother Burkette has long loved and supported the missionaries who have served in partnership with BFM, we have allocated this gift to be deposited in and added to the investment account that supplies the service pensions for our retired veteran missionaries.
So, we want Brother Burkette’s family to know that through his giving this gift to the Veteran Missionaries Pension Fund of BFM, his generosity will continue to give for years to come. It will not be itself spent down immediately, but rather it will continue to grow, multiply, and increase on itself so that many of the Lord’s faithful servants will be sustained and provided for in the years to come through his gift. His gift will continue to give and give for a long time to come.
2 Corinthians 9.10-15 – Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 13 while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men, 14 and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
May we encourage you to consider including BFM in your will or trust – or some other form of legacy gift? This kind of giving will ensure that your gift continues to give for the future time to come.
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