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Prayers for a Prosperous and Successful New Year In the Lord!
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| Well friends, 2021 was a long year, we were able to do a few seminars even though the pandemic is still lingering here. When Calli and I returned from a trip to the US, we were quarantined upon arrival and had to wear masks and plastic face shields from the moment we exited the plane. They finally dropped the plastic shield requirements, so it’s a little better than before. But they are still locking down neighborhoods that are being hit by the very contagious Omicron virus. They are even requiring you to show your vaccination cards to get into some of the stores. I kept thinking that we needed to let this virus run its course which would bring a lot of natural immunity. There seems to be very few deaths worldwide from this variant. But then we lost another dear friend in the US. Who knows what to do? I’m sick of seeing my grandkids unable to attend school in person. And just this week even their online classes were shut down for two weeks because of some of the teachers getting sick and having to quarantine. Wow, what is that doing to their people skills? They are still as precious as ever, but I know they need other kid’s relationships to develop properly. Everyone is doing well in spite of this calamity that has struck us all.
We all want to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year and pray that you all prosper as your soul prospers. We pray for an abundance from the Lord to overtake each of you in every area of your lives. We miss you and know there were many of you that we didn’t get to see while we were in the US. You know in the Kingdom of God when you see someone you haven’t seen in years it is like yesterday when you get to see them again. When we get to heaven someday we will see our family and friends and it will be like yesterday. It is so sweet to be a part of God’s Kingdom where time does not end and we never die! We love you all eternally! Tony and Calli |
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Two Seminars scheduled for January!
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Doc Ramon Redima, pictured above in the orange shirt next to Tony in one of our previous classes.
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Infected with the virus of soul winning!
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| Doc Ramon Redima, a passionate church planter, educator, and a pastor, with churches under him nationwide has attended the Stealth Evangelism Program last year and from then on, had never stopped organizing stealth evangelism classes both for workers and for pastors and leaders.
Since it is level 3 alert in region 4A and NCR (Metro Manila), he has scheduled 2 trainings this month, one for Bicol Region and one in Nueva Ecija. He believes that the best way to plant a church and to have ready database for new believers is to conduct a Stealth evangelism class that would result in winning at least 1000 new souls during practicums. Having undergone this class, it increased his passion to empower fearless Soul winners using the 357 Magnum technique (Our soul winning tool)! Earlier he has organized 2 workers evangelism trainings and 2 pastors training in different municipalities of Laguna. Truly this Man of God is infected with the virus of winning souls, got addicted to it and is certainly on the right track of planting more and more churches despite the pandemic. Salute to you Doc, Pastor Educator Ramon Redima! May your tribe increase!!! – Pastora Remy Mordino |
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How Qualified Charitable Deductions (QCD) Work
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By Dean Hudson DDS |
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| Many folks of our generation piled a lot of retirement money into qualified, tax-free investments such as 401K’s, IRA’s, 403b’s, etc. The money going in was before being taxed and the money growth was also not taxed—until withdrawn. When withdrawn it is all taxed at the ordinary income rate like a normal salary. When we turned 70 we were required to start withdrawing at a minimum amount prescribed by law— Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). But under the Trump tax law, we can opt for a direct pay-out of the RMD to a qualified charitable organization from the trustee of the investment so that we avoid all taxation and it lowers our ordinary income amount by that same amount. This is known as a Qualified Charitable Deduction (QCD) and requires a separate letter of acknowledgment, not to be confused with a normal itemized deduction statement. That about covers it. Your accountant especially needs to be thoroughly aware of this for sure! A boon to generosity! – Dean | ||
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| “Win the Philippines! Win the World!” Let’s do it together! |
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