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ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR
Essentials of Estate Planning | Honoring the Lord with your substance means more than prudently handling your assets while you are living. It includes wise and careful planning for incapacity and death, and the transition of your assets to the next generation. Spiritually speaking, to the next “stewards” who will step into your shoes and be responsible for fruitful kingdom use of God’s resources. This session will cover guardianship, powers of attorney, living wills, trusts, wills, charitable giving, and a host of other planning topics.
Escaping the Debt Trap | We live in a culture that is intoxicated with debt. Individuals, families, and sometimes churches, have been crippled from fulfilling our God-given stewardship responsibilities because of out of control and unwise borrowing and spending. God’s people must understand the dangers of debt and the solutions in order to honor the Lord with their substance and to represent Him well in a hurting world. This session will present a step-by-step guide to escaping and staying out of the debt trap.
Attorney Joseph Helm, Jr.
Joe Helm graduated with a J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana in 1983 and has been a member of Wisconsin, Illinois & Indiana’s State Bar Associations also since then. He served as partner at McLario, Helm, Bertling, & Spiegel, S.C. for 38 years until 2021. Although retired, he continues to serve as special counsel.
Throughout his years of estate planning practice, Joe has helped thousands of families and many Christian ministries, universities and missionaries plan for, and secure, their estates and missional purposes. He currently is a teaching pastor at Brookside Baptist Church in Brookfield, WI, and volunteers as a speaker on estate planning subjects for community groups, financial institutions, and charitable organizations.