The Bethel Christian Education Trust Fund
A Firm Foundation
When any Christian school relies solely on tuition as revenue, it is doomed to financial hardships or sometimes failure. With the cost of education skyrocketing, there is great pressure to raise tuition to cover these costs. But tuition can’t be raised higher than families can afford. So where does the money come from? People from all walks of life who are interested in maintaining a bible-based alternative to government schools.
The long term answer to the financial needs of Upper Bucks Christian School is the Bethel Christian Education Trust Fund. The Christian Education Trust is a non-profit trust fund registered in the state of Pennsylvania. Its Board of Trustees are all members of Bethel Baptist Church and are dedicated to the establishment, with God’s help, of a firm financial foundation for Christian education in our neighborhood.
How Does The Trust Fund Work?
The Christian Education Trust Fund receives donations through charitable gifts of many kinds. There are memorial gifts, bequests and wills. Some prefer to give one-time monetary gifts, or gifts of stocks and bonds. Others give through innovative estate planning. The accumulated amount of donations (now in the hundreds of thousands) is managed by the Trustees of the Fund to maximize its interest-bearing potential in the financial marketplace. The interest from the Trust Fund is made available to the Upper Bucks Christian School as each need arises. No portion of the principle in the "fund" is used for school support. Only the interest is available to the school for support. At the sole discretion of the Trustees, the interest, however, is sometimes reinvested in the Fund. So when you give to the Christian Education Trust Fund, you're giving an eternal gift to young lives that keeps on giving.
How Is It Used?
Lower Tuition
A goal of the Christian Education Trust Fund is to reduce the tuition amounts paid by student families. The promise of a well-endowed trust fund is lower tuition, while maintaining high educational standards.
Scholarships
Upper Bucks Christian School wants to continue to offer scholarships to worthy students in financial need. As God leads, more and more deserving students could receive a Christ-centered education than ever before.
Operating Capital
Some of the day-to-day operating costs of UBCS have already been assumed by the Trust Fund. As the Fund grows, the financial pressure of operating an excellent learning institution can be lessened. Also, more funds can be dedicated to maintaining a gifted and experienced faculty.
Gifts for Special Needs
Numerous items have been purchased with the interest from the Christian Education Trust. A few of these items include brochures, printed materials, library books, textbooks, a new photocopier, athletic and playground equipment, computers and handbells.
How Can You Participate?
Pray
Pray that God will increase the size of the Christian Education Trust mightily. Our goal is to add millions to the fund in the next few years. Also, pray that God will show you a way to support this foundation through a gift or by passing this brochure on to a relative.
Give
Don’t wait until you’re rich to donate to the Christian Education Trust Fund. Any size donation, no matter how small, is big in God’s eyes. Let’s obey God’s words when he says,
"Thou shalt teach these words diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up."
Deut. 6:7
For more information just call 1-888-536-5930. Or you can fill out the "Contact Me" form and a representative will show you how easy it is to "Give an Eternal Gift" to a young person. You can also visit our website at: www.EternalGift.org
Give An Eternal Gift
You have the opportunity to "Give an Eternal Gift", a gift that keeps giving in the name of the Lord. By contributing to the Christian Education Trust you are helping to ensure that the Christ-centered values that made this country great are passed from our generation to another. More importantly, you are enabling generations of young people to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whether it be on the mission field, in the workplace or in the home.
For more information or to give please visit www.EternalGift.org to learn more.