UMDF Participation Rate
Through 2nd Q 2025
4.25%
Loan rate 5.99%

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First Quarter 2021 Market Perspectives from Colony Group

Good afternoon, Trading in investment markets over the past twelve-plus months has been extraordinary. Aggressive monetary and fiscal policy responses and the medical community's rapid development of effective vaccines marked the fastest recovery from a bear market in history. In the latest Market Perspectives, our Colony Investment Leadership Team focuses on: How the secular changes [...]

By |2021-04-20T14:43:26+00:00April 20th, 2021|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

UM Foundation Awarded Lilly Grant

The United Methodist Foundation for the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded a grant from the UMC Clergy Well-Being Initiative. This award is funded by a grant to the General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits of the UMC by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Working in conjunction with the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences, the grant will [...]

By |2021-03-23T18:05:24+00:00March 23rd, 2021|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

Updated UM Foundation/Development Fund Protocol

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to [...]

By |2020-03-22T20:39:12+00:00March 22nd, 2020|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

A Word of Reassurance

“Therefore do not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be [...]

By |2020-03-19T18:07:05+00:00March 19th, 2020|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

A Statement from the President

Dear Friends, At this time of change in the denomination, we want to assure all of our investors in the United Methodist Foundation for the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences and UM Development Fund of TN/KY, Inc. that we are well prepared to continue to serve you. Any proposed changes currently under discussion in the United [...]

By |2020-02-19T18:15:26+00:00February 19th, 2020|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

Deposit Rate Increase!

Participation Account Rate Increase We are pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2020, the United Methodist Development Fund will raise the interest rate paid on participation accounts to 2.0%.  Participation account funds are fully liquid and, unlike certificates of deposit (CD), are not locked in for a particular time period.  The church building loan [...]

By |2019-11-22T14:11:20+00:00November 22nd, 2019|United Methodist General News|0 Comments

UM Foundation Offers Scholarships To TN/Memphis Conference Clergy for Seminar

The UM Foundation is proud to offer $500 scholarships to any Tennessee or Memphis Conference Clergy who attend the Lake Institute fundraising training seminar hosted Discipleship Ministries on August 5-8, 2019.  For additional information about this scholarship opportunity, contact Dr. Philip Jamieson, UM Foundation President, at 615-259-2008 or phil.jamieson@umfmtc.org. Discipleship Ministries chosen as one of [...]

By |2019-04-25T12:56:29+00:00November 14th, 2018|United Methodist General News|0 Comments