Tag Archive: #giving

Legacy Planning: Include OLW in Your Estate Plan

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21) Please prayerfully consider remembering our parish when you update your estate plans. These gifts help us to build a solid foundation for the Catholic formation of future [read more...]

Legacy Planning: Have You “Insured” Our Parish?

A life insurance gift is a powerful and simple way to provide future support for our parish. Here are two ways to give a gift of life insurance to Our Lady of the Wayside: Name our parish as a beneficiary [read more...]

Legacy Planning: Include OLW in Your Estate Plan?

None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the [read more...]

Legacy Planning: Planned Giving or Will Gifts for OLW

Dear OLW Parishioners, During this most holy season, rejoice in the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As stewards of our faith, please continue his good work on earth by considering a gift through your will or a [read more...]

Legacy Planning: Will Gifts for Our Parish

Please Prayerfully Consider Remembering Our Lady of the Wayside in Your Will. Jesus told us, “whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” So every day, we have the opportunity to see the face of [read more...]

Legacy Planning: Please Remember Our Priests

Priests have dedicated their lives to the ministry of God’s children, serving our needs as Catholics without asking for anything in return. Now, it is our turn to show our love and care for their ever-faithful support. Please consider including [read more...]

QCD Gifts Help Our Parish

Dear Parishioners, Your generosity during your lifetime has enabled Our Lady of the Wayside to serve the people of God in this community. Continue to be a part of the strength of this community by making a qualified charitable distribution [read more...]

Retirement Plan Gifts Help Our Parish

Dear Parishioners, A tax-wise way you can make a gift from your retirement funds is to name Our Lady of the Wayside as a beneficiary of your retirement account. By naming Our Lady of the Wayside as a beneficiary, you’ll [read more...]

Please Consider Online Giving

The pandemic has been difficult on all of us — spiritually, emotionally and financially. Even with our church doors open for the celebration of in-person mass, congregation size remains limited by the Archdiocese to 20% of our maximum capacity, and [read more...]

2020 Stock Donations/2020 Tax Statements

Dear Parishioners, It has come to our attention that stock donations to Our Lady of the Wayside may not have been reflected in some 2020 tax statements issued by the parish. Since these donations go through the Archdiocese of Chicago, [read more...]