BUSINESS LEADER REVIEWS:
“As I read Integrated Generosity, one part of the ‘mission statement’ for the book resonated with me – Unleashing Kingdom Giving. I have been blessed to witness and experience this first hand, as it has been a focus of my life since coming to CHRIST several decades ago.
For Christian business owners and families, helping financially to further kingdom outcomes should be a driving purpose. Regardless of how wealthy you are, reaching maximum giving capacity and becoming more strategic in generous giving during your lifetime is GOD’s desire for each of us.
‘If God isn’t in it, I want no part of it’ has been a guiding principle in my life. It is with this in mind I am glad to commend Integrated Generosity for Faith Based Families to anyone as a must read for strategic giving.”
Norm Miller
Chairman, Interstate Batteries
Dallas, TX
“Integrated Generosity was inspiring and motivational to me on two levels. As a business advisor, it supplied ideas and concepts that can encourage better service to my clients, especially helping them understand the reality that estate taxes ARE voluntary. As a parent and grandparent, this manuscript provides ideas and focus on gifting more than financial assets to my kids and grandkids.
The thought process about being intentional on strategic planning including the gifting of spiritual and character bequests to heirs was inspiring. Consider Integrated Generosity as ‘required reading’ for any family of significant resources desiring to improve their outcomes for family and impact in the world.”
Terry Lee Cumbey, CPA, ABV, CGMA, CVA, CFP, PFS
Managing Partner, CEO and Founding Partner, CCK Strategies
Tulsa, OK
The thought process about being intentional on strategic planning including the gifting of spiritual and character bequests to heirs was inspiring. Consider Integrated Generosity as ‘required reading’ for any family of significant resources desiring to improve their outcomes for family and impact in the world.”
Terry Lee Cumbey, CPA, ABV, CGMA, CVA, CFP, PFS
Managing Partner, CEO and Founding Partner, CCK Strategies
Tulsa, OK
“Mark Trewitt has been a peer in estate planning for over 21 years, and is one of the few financial planners I know who has a complete grasp of the Family Limited Partnership and similar wealth management entities in respect of “frozen gain” on contributions. This is an important part of his broad and deep understanding of complex but important estate planning issues facing families of wealth.
Within the pages of Integrated Generosity, Mark has now combined his understanding of estate planning concepts with his ministry in God’s Kingdom. What an opportunity to read the practical applications of Mark’s expertise as well as his faith!”
H. Glenn Henderson CPA, ABV, CVA, AEP
Managing & Founding Partner, Henderson Edwards Wilson Evetts, LLP
Dallas, TX
Within the pages of Integrated Generosity, Mark has now combined his understanding of estate planning concepts with his ministry in God’s Kingdom. What an opportunity to read the practical applications of Mark’s expertise as well as his faith!”
H. Glenn Henderson CPA, ABV, CVA, AEP
Managing & Founding Partner, Henderson Edwards Wilson Evetts, LLP
Dallas, TX
“The principles or ‘precepts’ that are expanded on with Integrated Generosity are on target with what many faith based families need to be reminded of in respect of their ‘stewardship’ of financial resources to God and family. As in the biblical parable, a wise and faithful steward finds ways to multiply the resources God has provided us with to further His Kingdom. Mark has provided us with contemporary best-practice that is filled with illustrations and personalized examples that are helpful in giving the reader multiple ways to understand normally complex concepts.
The biblical basis for the book is solid, and those who are communicating the concept of wise stewardship in the church, marketplace or their families would do well to use this book to understand best practice. I found the book to cover far more than just ‘generosity’ – this is really a text which is about Christ-centered Wisdom, providing insight that few possess and practice related to sustained purpose and legacy across generations.”
Dick Blanc, Managing Director (Retired)
Accenture
Plano, TX
The biblical basis for the book is solid, and those who are communicating the concept of wise stewardship in the church, marketplace or their families would do well to use this book to understand best practice. I found the book to cover far more than just ‘generosity’ – this is really a text which is about Christ-centered Wisdom, providing insight that few possess and practice related to sustained purpose and legacy across generations.”
Dick Blanc, Managing Director (Retired)
Accenture
Plano, TX
“Integrated Generosity for Faith Based Families is a must read for any Christian who wants to maximize their stewardship and kingdom giving potential. Mark is able to break down complex concepts to bite sized digestible chunks that you can start using today and not just month and years from now.
It is my sincere belief that if Christians would use only 10% of the strategies outlined, they would be truly blown away with what God can do when we let him. As thankful as I am to have these concepts available to me now, I wish I had been able to begin utilizing them 10 or even 15 years ago.”
Greg Thomas, President
Delta Oil & Gas, Ltd.
Ft. Worth, TX; Breckenridge, TX; Boulder, CO
It is my sincere belief that if Christians would use only 10% of the strategies outlined, they would be truly blown away with what God can do when we let him. As thankful as I am to have these concepts available to me now, I wish I had been able to begin utilizing them 10 or even 15 years ago.”
Greg Thomas, President
Delta Oil & Gas, Ltd.
Ft. Worth, TX; Breckenridge, TX; Boulder, CO
"In a world where so much of financial planning is transaction oriented, Integrated Generosity is Transformational. Mark's uncanny ability so see the big picture and then select the best tools from the tool box to build the solution is exceptional, and this book is the product of his decades of experience doing just that.
The strategies in Integrated Generosity will lead you to wonder, ‘This makes so much sense. Why hasn't anyone told me this before?’ Most importantly, it will help you ‘build your ‘faith muscles,’ and ultimately become a part of what God is doing in ways that will spread God's joy and love wider and deeper than you ever thought a disciplined, biblical approach to your finances could do."
JK Shea, Chairman
Shea Family Office
The strategies in Integrated Generosity will lead you to wonder, ‘This makes so much sense. Why hasn't anyone told me this before?’ Most importantly, it will help you ‘build your ‘faith muscles,’ and ultimately become a part of what God is doing in ways that will spread God's joy and love wider and deeper than you ever thought a disciplined, biblical approach to your finances could do."
JK Shea, Chairman
Shea Family Office
“Mark Trewitt does an exceptional job of showing the average Christian family how they can achieve above average generosity and giving during their lifetime. By applying the ‘planning precepts’ outlined in Integrated Generosity, your family can have a significant impact on the Kingdom of God. Mark, thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience with all those who desire to leave a legacy of giving and generosity to their families during their time here on earth.”
Ty Richardson, President/CEO
Hormone Treatment Centers of America
Plano, TX
Ty Richardson, President/CEO
Hormone Treatment Centers of America
Plano, TX
"Mark Trewitt presents truths of stewardship in simple understandable language that will help believers unlock the power of their estates for Kingdom good and the benefit of their families. Mark’s transparency inspires us to not allow our estates to fall at the hands of inaction, but rather to establish clear biblically-centered principles that will help all of us use the wisdom of the cross as we plan for our family’s estate future.
As a business owner and the leader of a ministry, the value of Mark’s words ring strong to me both personally and professionally. As a fellow board member for the Barnabas Group DFW, I know Mark. He lives out what he teaches. I encourage you to read Integrated Generosity and put these principles in action. It is a gift you will give your family for years beyond your time on earth.“
Rick Jones, Managing Partner
Soulful Creations LLC
President, Chairman - Stronger than Espresso, Inc.
McKinney, TX
As a business owner and the leader of a ministry, the value of Mark’s words ring strong to me both personally and professionally. As a fellow board member for the Barnabas Group DFW, I know Mark. He lives out what he teaches. I encourage you to read Integrated Generosity and put these principles in action. It is a gift you will give your family for years beyond your time on earth.“
Rick Jones, Managing Partner
Soulful Creations LLC
President, Chairman - Stronger than Espresso, Inc.
McKinney, TX
“Just being able to experience the knowledge Mark Trewitt has gained over the course of his financial career is well worth reading his book. If you have any charitable inclinations, the material presented is thought-provoking.”
Ronald Schutz, Founder/Owner
Ron Schutz - Planning Business Transitions, LLC
Houston, TX
Ronald Schutz, Founder/Owner
Ron Schutz - Planning Business Transitions, LLC
Houston, TX
“When I’m coaching business people, I often challenge them to write the book that is inside them. Very few take the challenge. Mark Trewitt not only took the challenge to write a book, he wrote a book that matters. It matters to him because it resonates with his life passion. It matters to you, if living a life of generosity and faithful stewardship that proclaims your faith in Christ is part of your life passion.
Integrated Generosity is practical and engaging, filled with real life examples and illustrations. Thank you, Mark, for taking the challenge and doing the good work of putting all this great wisdom and insight in one place.”
Scott Keffer, Coach
Founder of The Donor Motivation Program®
Author of Giving Back Transforms You!
Pittsburgh, PA
Integrated Generosity is practical and engaging, filled with real life examples and illustrations. Thank you, Mark, for taking the challenge and doing the good work of putting all this great wisdom and insight in one place.”
Scott Keffer, Coach
Founder of The Donor Motivation Program®
Author of Giving Back Transforms You!
Pittsburgh, PA
“Having worked with family office situations for many years, Integrated Generosity has affirmed for me that families of wealth, even the most well advised, are often falling short of reaching their full potential in wealth transfer and impactful stewardship toward both family and charity. The article from Worth (which indicated that almost 60% of Family Offices surveyed said their plans included funding mechanisms for the intentional payment of estate tax, a voluntary toll on family wealth and a form of what Mark refers to as ‘Involuntary Philanthropy’) was both compelling and confirming to something I have long felt. It underscored the fact that even in the most advanced wealth management situations, there is a lack of availability, much less understanding, towards cutting edge techniques that can create current tax savings as part of a paradigm of eliminating most or all of a family’s otherwise voluntary estate tax exposure.
The fact that significant current and future income taxes can be easily and tactically redirected - using both conventional and unconventional planning tools - toward advancing any family’s generosity objectives and outcomes is sheer brilliance in planning. I have had the privilege of working directly with the author and have seen these strategies applied in real life situations, and it has been amazing to see just how far the needle moves, in respect of achieving charitable impact that is both accelerated and multiplied many times over, compared to what conventional ‘planned giving’ outcomes yield.
Any family of wealth – and their advisors – would be well advised to read Integrated Generosity and embrace the concepts that can be applied to their situation.”
Chris Kosmos, President/CEO
CSM Pacific, Ltd.
Seattle, WA
The fact that significant current and future income taxes can be easily and tactically redirected - using both conventional and unconventional planning tools - toward advancing any family’s generosity objectives and outcomes is sheer brilliance in planning. I have had the privilege of working directly with the author and have seen these strategies applied in real life situations, and it has been amazing to see just how far the needle moves, in respect of achieving charitable impact that is both accelerated and multiplied many times over, compared to what conventional ‘planned giving’ outcomes yield.
Any family of wealth – and their advisors – would be well advised to read Integrated Generosity and embrace the concepts that can be applied to their situation.”
Chris Kosmos, President/CEO
CSM Pacific, Ltd.
Seattle, WA
