I wish to thank all of you who pledged a gift to our Bishop’s Ministry Appeal last February. Our parish, as you know, is entrusted with the largest single goal in the Diocese ($195,000 this year). As a community we pledged $204,000, thus exceeding our goal. We only have a little less than two months to redeem our pledges for this year, and we have received $180,000 in gifts, only $15,000 short of our goal. I realize that some of us will not be able to redeem our pledges due to circumstances. But if you did pledge and somehow forgot about your pledge (debtors — and are we not all debtors to the Good God? — have notoriously poor memories!), please try to redeem it this month. The Diocese will bill us for the remainder in any case, and we will have to pull that out of our operating budget. The Diocese, like all of us, is a bit stretched, but if all of us stretch just a little bit, we can fund the good works of our Diocese as well as our parish.
Remarkably, our parish finances have been holding steady in an unsteady economy over these last five years. Our offertory gifting is just about even with years past, at about $26,000 a week. We have cut expenses, though, and so are banking about $90,000 a year from our operations expenses. We are banking another $100,000 or so into our building fund. After liabilities (accounts payable), we have about $700,000 in cash in the bank. I am proud and most grateful to all of our parish for pulling together in a difficult economy. At last month’s Finance Council meeting, Kevin MacEgan, our chairman, expressed confidence and gratitude that our parish is in such a financially stable position. Let us pray that God continues to bless us, and let us bless Him in return with gifts of our own.
One reason our parish is financially stable is that we have made consistent efforts to practice biblically-based money management over the last ten years. We have adhered to basic principles, such as not spending more than we have, tithing as individuals and as a parish, and putting aside a healthy amount into savings every year. Many are not aware of these simple, biblical principles, that make our finances so much less stressful. Would you like to learn God’s ways of managing your money? Would you like to discover proven methods of paying down your debts? I invite you to one of our “Seven Steps to Becoming Financially Free” Bible studies. The next one begins November 7 — and many thanks to Anthony Butera and Nickie Miranda for leading our studies.
Remarkably, our parish finances have been holding steady in an unsteady economy over these last five years. Our offertory gifting is just about even with years past, at about $26,000 a week. We have cut expenses, though, and so are banking about $90,000 a year from our operations expenses. We are banking another $100,000 or so into our building fund. After liabilities (accounts payable), we have about $700,000 in cash in the bank. I am proud and most grateful to all of our parish for pulling together in a difficult economy. At last month’s Finance Council meeting, Kevin MacEgan, our chairman, expressed confidence and gratitude that our parish is in such a financially stable position. Let us pray that God continues to bless us, and let us bless Him in return with gifts of our own.
One reason our parish is financially stable is that we have made consistent efforts to practice biblically-based money management over the last ten years. We have adhered to basic principles, such as not spending more than we have, tithing as individuals and as a parish, and putting aside a healthy amount into savings every year. Many are not aware of these simple, biblical principles, that make our finances so much less stressful. Would you like to learn God’s ways of managing your money? Would you like to discover proven methods of paying down your debts? I invite you to one of our “Seven Steps to Becoming Financially Free” Bible studies. The next one begins November 7 — and many thanks to Anthony Butera and Nickie Miranda for leading our studies.
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