[Alan Cottrill]

In my early days in insurance, I worked with several churches. they would set appointments for me with members of their parish and we would all meet together to sell them a life insurance policy that the member would pay the premium on and the church would be the owner/beneficiary of. the church leaders at these appointments were closing harder than me to sell these policies. they considered the premium part of their tithe. Over the years I've delivered many death benifit checks to these churches. They have been able to use the lump sums to create income producing endowments. (which I helped them invest, more $$$ for me!!)

being a bit of a agnostic, I sometimes felt bad that this marketing idea paid off so well, but now that it has come full circle and has made a really big difference in these churches I'm glad I did it.

anyway...moral of the story is, there are lots of ways to tithe and here's another idea.