An endowment extends good stewardship above and beyond a church’s operating budget, said the presenters of “Introduction to Endowments: Why Have One, and What Are They?”
In just a little more than a decade, the Presbyterian Church of Okemos, a suburb of Lansing, Michigan, has gone from being a congregation that rarely talked about money to a church where even younger members understand the power of pledges, bequests and endowments to multiply mission and as a means to commit their life a part of a faith community.