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  • Welcome
  • Worship Schedule
  • Who We Are
    • Who We Are / Mission
    • Being Lutheran / Communion
    • Pastors / Church Staff
  • Ministries
    • Tent City Ministry
    • Comfort Dog Eve
    • Adult Education/Small Groups
    • Youth Ministry
    • Sunday School 2022-2023
    • Confirmation
    • Choirs / Instrumentalists
    • UKANDU
    • Feed My Starving Children
    • VBS 2022
  • Media
    • Sermon & Education Videos
    • Music Videos
    • Upcoming Sermons / Resources
    • Read the Bible in Three Years
  • GIVE
    • Online Giving
    • Text To Give
    • IRAs / Securities Gifts
    • Manna Gift Cards
  • Calendars / Events
    • Calendars
    • Artist Series
  • Volunteer
    • Love Your Neighbor Day
    • Nursery
    • Stream Team
    • Screen Presenter for Worship
  • Weddings
  • FAQs
  • Contact / Map
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IRA Gifts


​Are you looking for a way to comply with the law regarding the required minimum distribution from your IRA, help St. John’s, and reduce your tax bill all in one fell swoop?

People older than 70½ can transfer up to $100,000 per year from their traditional IRAs to charity, which can count as their required minimum distribution but is not taxable if they follow the rules for a qualified charitable distribution (QCD). (This doesn’t apply to a Roth IRA, which has tax-free withdrawals and no required distributions.) The gift stays out of your adjusted gross income only if you make a direct transfer from your IRA to the charity. It doesn’t count as a tax-free transfer if you withdraw the money first and then make a donation to the charity. Ask your IRA administrator what steps you need to take, because the procedures can vary from firm to firm.

Fidelity, for example, gives you several options. If you have check-writing privileges on your IRA, you can write a check directly from the IRA to the charity. Or use Fidelity’s QCD form to have money sent directly from your account. Fidelity recommends submitting the form no later than November 30 to allow enough time for processing.
If Fidelity sends the money, the check will be written out to the charity and include your name. Let the charity know to expect the donation, and provide your address so that it can send you an acknowledgement for your tax records. Another option is to have Fidelity make the check out to the charity and send it to your home address so that you can forward the donation to the charity yourself.

​Vanguard requires that you either fill out a form or call to request the transfer for the donation to count as a QCD. (See Vanguard’s Required Minimum Distribution Service for more information.) Vanguard makes the check out to the charity and sends it to you to forward. Make the request with plenty of time to receive the check and get it in the hands of the charity.
Neither firm has a minimum amount you can transfer to each charity, and neither limits the number of charities you can support each year. You can’t, however, transfer more than $100,000 tax-free from your IRAs in any one year.
Here is a link to some additional relevant information: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T032-C001-S003-making-a-tax-free-transfer-from-an-ira-to-charity.html

Securities Gifts


​The LCMS Foundation assists donors and LCMS ministries with a variety of securities gifts:
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  • Appreciated Security Transfer Guidelines
  • Appreciated Security Transfer Instructions
  • Transfer Authorization
  • Letter Of Direction
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For the Word of God is active and alive.
The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 4, Verse 12

Church
Phone: (630) 629-2515
Email: church@stjohnslombard.org
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Church Office Hours

8:00a to 4:00p Monday-Friday (closed 12-12:30p)
​(Closed for holidays - see calendar)

Church Summer Office Hours (Memorial thru Labor Day weekends):
8:00a to 4:00p Monday-Thursday (closed 12-12:30p)
8:00a-12:00p
 Friday 
​(Closed for holidays - see calendar)

​School
Phone: (630) 932-3196
Email: sjschooloffice@sjleagles.com

​School
Office ​Hours: 
Mondays - Friday 8:00a to 4:00p
(Closed for holidays and special events - see calendar)
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