November 2025 Adult Education Series: What is Your Legacy?
November 5, 12, and 19 5:30 to 6:30 in the Coffee House
Presented by the Abiding Savior Mission Endowment Fund
Have you ever thought about your legacy? What is going to happen to all of your possessions and your wealth? What lessons are you teaching your children or grandchildren, especially about faith and generosity? We all should have a plan in place for when we are gone, a plan that leaves a legacy of faith and generosity. Even if you don’t think you need a legacy plan because you aren’t “rich”, we often have more than we think. Do you own a home? Do you have retirement accounts? Life insurance policies? Most of these will pass down to your children, but some of that wealth can also be donated to the Abiding Savior Endowment. Having a legacy plan in place is a gift to your children and a way for you to continue your generosity toward the work of God done in and through Abiding Savior for generations to come.
- November 5 – Planning for Your Own Funeral with Pastors Ryan and Katie
- Making funeral plans and arrangements ahead of time can be a real gift to your family. It also helps to make your funeral service genuinely reflect your faith, your life, and your legacy. Don’t just leave your funeral planning up to your family! They will have enough on their minds after you are gone. Abiding Savior has put together a funeral planning packet that helps you think through your funeral service, obituary, and other arrangements. Join us and begin your planning and ask your questions.
- November 12 – What Is Your Legacy? by Joe Sullivan, Regional Gift Planner with the ELCA Foundation
- Joe Sullivan, Regional Gift Planner with the ELCA Foundation, will provide an overview of how to make informed decisions while considering the current and future needs of you and your loved ones. The ELCA Foundation can help you navigate your options to create a gift plan that benefits the ministries that mean the most to you, while also maximizing your financial and estate-planning goals. You are invited to explore how you can support Abiding Savior Lutheran Church and other ELCA ministries by creating a charitable gift plan. It’s a meaningful way to make a lasting impact.
- November 19 – Wills, Trusts and Healthcare Directives, What You Should Know by Howard Helgen, Attorney at Law
- Join attorney Howard Helgen to learn more about the importance of getting your affairs in order no matter what your age. Mr. Helgen will address wills, trusts, and healthcare directives (living wills) and answer questions about assisting our loved ones in handling our assets and carrying out our will when we are gone. He will also address any questions about how to make a charitable gift in the process of making or updating your will, trust, or estate. Mr. Helgen is the son of a Lutheran Pastor and past President of St. Philip’s Lutheran Church in Fridley.