-- supporting the Southern Baptist Convention in its efforts to spread the Gospel world-wide.

The Southern Baptist Foundation provides a wide range of investment and estate planning services for Southern Baptist Convention agencies, institutions and individuals.

The Foundation supplies supportive information regarding taxes, investments, or estate planning to various state foundations, Convention agencies, institutions, and individuals.

Supporting individuals who desire to provide perpetual support for denominational causes through out-right gift, trust, will, deed, or gift annuity, the Southern Baptist Foundation provides a full range of estate planning services to assist Baptists in making gifts to denominational causes either during one's lifetime or by will. Current tax information and appropriate legal advice is available through counsel is provided to donors who wish to give a permanent source of income to Baptist institutions and causes. The Foundation issues charitable gift annuities at rates which are currently more attractive than rates available from many other investments, since a portion of the income is exempt from taxes. With a charitable gift annuity, the donor receives a guaranteed income during his or her lifetime and names a Baptist cause to benefit from the annuity upon death.

The Foundation strives to assist individuals in fulfilling their stewardship commitments and provides a dependable and prudent investment services to agencies and institutions of the Southern Baptist Convention. With the highest ideals of Christian stewardship, the Foundation seeks to provide the maximum return consistent with security of capital.