The United Methodist Church of Peace
6345 Xerxes Avenue South
  Richfield, Minnesota 55423-1038

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GIVE FROM YOUR INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT (IRA) – This year, it is possible to make a gift from your IRA without incurring income tax.  Through the Pension Protection Act of 2006, federal tax law allows people age 70 ˝ and older to make a direct gift to their church or another charity with IRA assets up to $100,000 in 2007 without including the distribution in income.  You are eligible to contribute funds in this manner under the following conditions:

For more information….Val Walker, Executive Director, Minnesota United Methodist Foundation, Phone: (612) 230-3337,

E-mail: val.walker @mnumcfoundation.org



Soldiers Need Our Phone Cards
In some remote areas of the Middle East, the only phone card that works for soliders is one featuring the UMC cross and flame insignia. Two UM agencies designed cards featuring the cross and flame and the message "Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors. The people of the United Methodist Church."  For more information on how to participate, contact the UM Endorsing Agency, P.O. Box 340007, Nashville, TN 37203-0007; umea@gbhem.org; or (615)340-7411. Visit the agency web site at www.gbhem.org/chaplains. (UMNS)