Whether you choose to support the Bethany Fund or make a restricted or endowment gift, there are a variety of ways you can make that gift.

By Check

You may mail checks to the Institutional Advancement Department, Bethany Theological Seminary, 615 National Road West, Richmond, Indiana 47374

By Periodic Bank Withdrawal

If you wish to make regular gifts without needing to write a check every month you may elect to have your bank automatically send your gift to Bethany. If you wish to explore this method of giving, call (800-287-8822) or write or email us at florylobethanyseminary.edu for the forms by which you can initiate this process.

Online by Credit Card

You may support Bethany's annual fund anytime with an online credit card gift.  Click here to use this option. 

With Appreciated Property

If you hold property that has appreciated highly since you acquired it -- perhaps stocks, perhaps real estate -- there may be a significant income tax advantage in using those assets to make a gift. In most instances you are able to take a full income tax deduction for the market value of the asset, but not need to recognize the capital gain like you would if you sold it. If you have interest in exploring this kind of gift, please contact Lowell Flory, florylobethanyseminary.edu or call at (800-287-8822). If your interest is in donating appreciated stock, we can e-mail or post to you specific instructions for your broker to expedite this process.  Any time you give stock, PLEASE give us advance notice of the transfer.  Quite often we have to do extended research jobs to identify the donor of stock that just shows up in our account without a donor name on it.  

Direct Transfer from IRA 

By special Congressional action several times since 2006, certain donors have been given the opportunity to make a tax-free withdrawal from their IRA as a contribution to charities like Bethany. In past versions the donor needed to be 70½ and give from a true IRA -- unfortunately other kinds of retirement plans weren't covered. The last version of that provision ended December 31, 2009. As of May 2010, Congress is back at it again. Both the House and Senate have passed their own versions of H.R. 4213, the Tax Extenders Act of 2009.  If differences are worked out in the next month or two, it is likely the provision will again be in force retroactively for calendar year 2010.  Watch our website for updates on whether this action becomes law.  If it does and if you elect to use this way of giving, let us know the name and company of your IRA administrator, since sometimes these checks come without identification of who the donor was who initiated it.