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Meet Our Donors

We are thankful for those who have made an estate gift to The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of American Baptist Churches USA. Here are their stories.

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Faith, Charity, Compassion

I’ve got to figure out what to do with this money,” said Roberta Stephens not long after she retired in 2014. Pat Kelley recalls her sister’s remark, and that Roberta began to schedule meetings with advisors.

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Remembering a Life Well Lived with a Generous Gift

“MMBB was very important to Bill. He was always so appreciative of the guidance they gave as he prepared for retirement.” These are the words Mary Thomas used as she reminisced about her late husband, the Reverend Dr. William R. Thomas, and her recent gift to the MMBB Endowment.

Life-Changing Support Inspires Legacy of Giving

Sharon met her late husband, Sam—an “American Baptist to the core”—while playing the organ at the church he pastored in Denver, Colorado.

Charitable Gift Annuities Through the American Baptist Foundation

With $40,000 in cash, Rev. Otto Nallinger established a two-life charitable gift annuity (CGA) through the American Baptist Foundation in 1994. Annual payments would be made to him and then, upon his death, to his daughter, Jean McQueen.

Legacy Giving as Part of the Financial Planning Process

After her husband died in 2005, the Reverend Carol Franklin Sutton had financial decisions to make. She and the Reverend Richard D. Sutton (“Dick”) married in 1993 after meeting at an all-staff retreat for the American Baptist Home Mission Society.