How can we spend less on ourselves so that we can spend more on missions? This is one of the questions that several of our church members and committee members have asked during this season of budget development. As a church we understand that we have a ministry to carry out within our church family and a mission to live out beyond ourselves. During the development process for the 2012 Calvary budget we have asked our leaders and committees to take a hard look at our needs within the church and to try to free up the budget for increased missions giving. Our stewardship committee worked hard to designate funds in 2011 for maintenance and repair of church properties to avoid increasing this line item in the budget.
The stewardship committee’s proposed 2012 budget has virtually no increase in the personnel section, a decrease in the direct ministries section, a 1.64% increase in ministry support and a 4.73% in missions giving compared to the 2011 budget. This is the result of coordinated teamwork across the leadership of Calvary. We believe that this is a faith budget that can be reached only through prayer, God’s help and generous giving. If any of these three ingredients is lacking, we will fail. Please pray for God’s wisdom and blessing on this process.
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