Email Address

pwsd@presbyterian.ca

Phone Number

(416) 441-1111

Loaves & Fishes Fund

In Jesus’s hands five loaves and two fish became enough to feed a multitude, with plenty remaining.

Become a part of the ongoing miracle of multiplication by donating to Presbyterian World Service & Development’s Loaves & Fishes Fund. Legacy gifts harness the power of your investment money, provide a steady stream of income to PWS&D and use tax efficient strategies to maximize your gift and your own tax savings.

How it works

Your gifts to PWS&D’s Loaves & Fishes Fund will improve the lives of people living in poverty around the world. It means PWS&D’s long-term, sustainable programs will have the consistent, dedicated support they need over a seven-year period.

Making a legacy gift to the Loaves & Fishes Fund, allows one-seventh of your gift to be used to support the work of PWS&D in the year it is given. The rest of your gift is invested by professional fund managers for the Trustee Board of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. Over the next six years, PWS&D uses a portion of the gift, plus the annual interest earned to support our ongoing work. At the end of the seven years, your entire gift – plus all the income and capital gains generated by your investment – will have been used for the development, relief and refugee support work of PWS&D.

Loaves & Fishes Fund Brochure

There are several ways you can make a legacy gift to PWS&D

  • Bequest through your will
  • Gift of stock
  • Gift of publicly traded securities
  • RRSPs and RRIFs
  • Real estate
  • Life insurance
  • Charitable gift annuities
  • Special gifts of cash

When making a legacy gift to The Presbyterian Church in Canada, please consider naming PWS&D separately in order to support the ongoing development and relief work of the PCC.

If you have chosen to include PWS&D in your estate plans, please let us know. We would love the opportunity to thank you.

For more information on legacy giving, ways to give, or the tax benefits of making a legacy gift please visit: http://presbyterian.ca/plannedgiving/.

For legacy giving resources, including worship resources, click here.

To talk to someone about making a gift, contact:

Stewardship and Planned Giving Office
The Presbyterian Church in Canada
50 Wynford Dr.
Toronto, Ontario
M3C 1J7 Canada

Karen Plater, Associate Secretary
1-800-619-7301 ext. 272