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At Donald Hamm & Sons Insurance, our objective is to help each church understand insurance and help it decide upon an affordable plan of insurance coverage to protect its facilities and ministry.
Our agency is our ministry. It was established specifically for your church more than 30 years ago to provide the church community with an ethical and reputable source from which insurance could be purchased specific to their individual and unique needs. Back then, it took dedicated specialized insurance companies and specially licensed agents to provide a properly constructed plan of insurance. And, it was a very labor intensive process.
Today, with computerization and minimalizing of license regulations (read education / experience) nearly every insurance company has an add-on attachment to a basic one policy-fits-all that has “Church Something” in the title.
And, any agent or, perhaps a company employee will offer to provide your church with their company's insurance coverage.
Please understand no church attachment or even a policy for that matter provides identical / comparable coverage to any of the others. So, who decides if that particular “add-on” is the best available to protect your church from its unique exposures?
Our focus has always been to provide the church with the right coverage, unique to its needs and with the service to go along with what we sell. We are available to our church clients by personalized phone when you need us. We also make it a point to revisit each church again and again as board and committee members change. And, of course, the real test of serving your church as an agent is the capability to present more than one company’s insurance offering for your church’s consideration, be it because of coverage or pricing. Additionally, being independent allows us to act as your church’s advocate, something many agents / company employees cannot do because of their relationship with the insurance company. And, then there is the faceless voice at the other end of an “800” number that will never be as concerned with your church’s unique needs because they will never see you face-to-face. The voices you hear when you call us are the same ones you see face-to-face at insurance review meetings.
Free of Charge
Our Process
- We start with a visit to your church – we take pictures and make diagrams of buildings to determine the area/square footage. The process is repeated for stained glass.
- We then determine insurance values – the square footage is plugged into a computer model to determine estimates of rebuilding costs.
- Other property values – organs are best valued based on the number of ranks so we consult with those best knowledgeable about the church organ. Other items values such as bells, carillons, spires, etc. will have suggested computer values based on our physical observation.
- Identification of liability and crime exposures – we initially ask to meet with a knowledgeable person from the church and review a series of questions specifically developed over the years which will allow us to make suggestions and recommendations for church consideration.
- We personally review the insurance proposal obtained for the church with those responsible for making the insurance purchase or recommending a selection to those that do. This review may take upwards of one hour or more depending on numbers of persons and questions asked but isn't your church's continued ministry worth one hour of stewardship?