Jack and Margaret didn't have a large family to leave things to. What they had a deep and abiding love for God and an understanding that the Kingdom was worth investing in. Even after Jack’s passing, Margaret still thought generationally.

She had invested in the Church Loan Fund — practical certificates that earned reliable interest and supported her modest needs. But Margaret had thought carefully about what would happen to those certificates when she no longer needed them. With quiet intentionality, she named the United Pentecostal Foundation as the beneficiary. It cost her nothing in her lifetime. She drew the interest she needed, lived with dignity, and held loosely to what was never really hers to keep. Then, when she passed, those certificates became a substantial endowment — one that continues to fund Apostolic education year after year, long past the last day she sat in her favorite chair to pray.

Jack and Margaret also held charitable gift annuities, which gave then additional income throughout their lifetimes while positioning them to leave yet another endowment behind — this one benefiting multiple ministries and missions across the United Pentecostal Church. Two streams of generosity, flowing from one faithful couple.

Jack and Margaret had no children. But the generations coming behind them are better because they lived. They saw young ministers who would never know their names, future students who would never hear their story, and they decided they were worth planning for anyway. That is Kingdom vision in its purest form — not giving because someone is watching, but because eternity is.

What if the most powerful thing you did in your lifetime was something you arranged quietly, that took effect after you were gone?