What is the Church Offering and how does it fund General Church Ministries?
In addition to the church Tithe, a portion of General Church ministries will be funded by local church offerings. The Annual Conference made the following decision: In addition, any amounts apportioned to the Annual Conference for Denominational Ministries, not included by the Conference in the Tithe, shall be assigned to the churches, for their offerings, pro-rata, based upon the estimated income for said church. The estimate of income is to be an average of the previous two years Table 3 reports (less feebased income and Capital Fund Campaign receipts)*. The Council on Finance will work to have all of the Denomination Ministry support included in the Tithe by the year 2010. It is the intent of the Council on Finance and Administration to fund all Conference operations and the North Indiana share of General Church Ministries through the Tithe. Eventually, we will be able to do this, as giving grows. Initially, however, CFA does not think it would be possible. Therefore, they asked the
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