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Prosperity Resources & Ideas

Following are programs and ideas from the field. We welcome your submissions. Please email to debbie@unity.org

40-Day Prosperity Prayer Program (3 pg pdf)

Reverend Richard Maraj has submitted this article titled "Manna from Heaven". (16 pg pdf)

Unexpected Income: Three-week series of Sunday lessons on the book How to Have Unexpected Income, by John Wolcott Adams. The three themes were:

Prayer treatment for unexpected income
Opening to receiving
The gift of giving
We had a great response from the congregation and while doing this program one of my members received $5,000 twice after starting to read the book. I personally received $1,000.00. (From Jan Chase, Unity Church of Truth, Pomona CA. Contact janhoshin@aol.com for more info.)

The brochure for Unexpected Income Program is now available here as a Word document. You can download it and customize it for your congregation. Page 1 Page 2

A common challenge all churches face is the summer decline in giving. Fox Valley Unity has a unique way of handling that problem. They send a Summer Monetary Assistance Contribution letter sealed with a big red kiss - SMAC. They mark the return envelope with the kiss and this is a way to track those gift given in kind to being SMACed. Marciah McCartney former minister at Fox Valley Unity, also shares her letter here. PDF

Interesting article "Let's Talk About Prosperity! by Patsy Scala pdf 2 pages

Ideas for Building our Ministries Prosperity Consciousness by Edwene Gaines pdf 1 page.

Let's Talk Prosperity by Catherine Ponder

Gifting Stock. We have been given permission from the First Unity Church in St. Petersburg, FL to share this wonderful article from their newsletter. They have given permission for you to customize and use in your own newsletters. (Just copy & paste the text below. Thank you First Unity Church of St. Petersburg.

Let's assume that you invested $1,000 several years ago in Prosperity, Inc. You bought 100 shares for $10 each. Since Prosperity, Inc adheres to Unity prosperity principles, the stock has grown to $5,000. If you were to sell the stock, you would pay capital gains on $4,000 ($5,000 selling price minus your $1,000 initial investment). If you donate the stock to First Unity, you do NOT pay capital gains. If you can itemize (Schedule A) on your tax return, you can also deduct the donated value of the stock ($5,000) as a charitable contribution. This is a win-win situation. First Unity can sell the stock without having to pay any capital gain because it is a charitable organization. Your prosperity increases by having lower taxes.

(If you made the mistake of investing in the Loser Limited-Thinking Company and your initial investment of $1,000 is now worth only $500, then you would want to sell the stock yourself to take advantage of a capital loss on your taxes. You could still donate the $500 cash proceeds to First Unity).

First Unity has a brokerage account at Edward Jones through Dean Landsman (2110 4th Street N, St. Petersburg, FL 33704, 826-9393). If you want to donate appreciated stock, you or your broker may call Dean. It may take a few weeks for the transaction to occur, so if you want to make a donation for the current year, it is best to start as soon as possible. Please be aware that if you sell the stock yourself or through your broker and then donate the money to the church, you will incur a capital gain. To give appreciated stock and avoid a capital gain, you must transfer the stock to the church's brokerage account and have it sold by that account.