Congregational Meeting

Front Range Alliance ChurchAugust 23, 2015

Ministry Highlights

o Conversions – 12o Baptisms – 15 o Small Group Engagement – 208 o Short Term Missions – 10o Weekly Attendance Increased – 50 o Family units supporting local ministry – 172

2015 Budget Review

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General Fund Balance

General Fund Balance Linear (General Fund Balance)

2016 Proposed Budget

Proposed Giving

• $13,700 per week • $712,000 annually• Decrease of $22k or 3% of budget due to

new approach to missions giving

Proposed Expenses

• Ministry & Outreach - $15,500• Personnel - $344,000• Travel - $8,100• Service and Supplies - $54,000• Building Facilities Management - $268,000

TOTAL - $690,000

Proposed FY 2016 Budget (Expenses)

2015 Budgeted Expenses vs. 2016 Budgeted Expenses

Bottom Line

• $712,000 - Giving• $690,000 - Expenses• $22,000 – Budgeted Net Gain

Questions?

New Approach to Missions Giving

Front Range Alliance ChurchAugust 23, 2015

Why?

• To place a greater emphasis on missions giving at Front Range Alliance Church

• To increase awareness of the Great Commission Fund

• To simplify how our missions giving works • To increase our overall giving to missions

Our 2014/15 Missions Giving

• Great Commission Fund $32,000• Mexico

$10,100• Specials (est.)

$5,000• Missionary Support* $21,422• Missions Conf.* $1,200

Total Missions Giving $69,722

*The only two items currently included in our general budget

The New Approach

• Separate missions budget at FRAC• Funded through an annual missions faith

promise• All things missions will be handled through the

missions budget including the GCF• Separate line item in bulletin and financials

showing weekly and year-to-date missions giving

Pat Jarrett Missions Director

Front Range Alliance Church

The Goal for 2015/16

• Increase our Missions Giving to 14% of budget (currently approx 9%)

• Total Missions giving goal: $93,000• Great Commission Fund (GCF) $43,000– ($32,000 in 2014/2015)

• FRAC Missions Fund $50,000– ($37,722 in 2014/2015)

FRAC Missions Budget Detail

• Committed Support -$26,600 (53% of budget)• Roughly a $6000 increase from 2014/2015

• Uncommitted or other -$22,900 (47%)

• Priority of giving –Will meet GCF Fund goal and Committed Support First. If Funds are available after those needs are met, we will be able to fund the Uncommitted initiatives

Supported Missionaries

Nate MirzaEd & Sue Giesbrecht

Kris & Stephanie RubeshJason & Keri Gupta

Rick Kirschman

Daryl & Carolyn PlattMexico Ministry

Caleb & Alyssa Call*Chris & Sarah Baker*

Supported Missionaries

• 65% Overseas based • 35% US Based • Two new missionary partners being added• Possible additional new ministry partner(s) as

funds permit

Uncommitted Support

• Short Term Missions (Mexico and other?) $16,000• Missions Conference• Care Packages• Christmas Gifts to CMA FRAC Missionaries and other

supported• One time gifts –Special needs or projects• New supported missionaries

Funding of these critical items will be determined by the amount of giving received.

Great Commission Fund

• We want to increase our giving to the GCF to enable the CMA to send additional workers to critical fields around the world that need more laborers to bring the Gospel.

• Roughly 45% of our missions budget will go

directly to the GCF. Factoring in our direct giving to CMA missionaries and fields and our short term missions trip(s), this increases to over 70% of our total Missions giving in this Budget.

What this means for you

• Prayerfully fill out a Missions Faith Promise Card by Sept 30

• Don’t forget to mark your check “missions” or “GCF” if you are giving towards your faith promise

A Practical Example• “Christian” gave $1,100 to FRAC last year:–$1000 general fund–$100 special missions offerings and GCF

• We’re asking Christian to still give $970 of this to FRAC’s general fund. (88% of total giving)

• We’re asking Christian to give at least $130 as his missions faith promise. (12% of total giving)

• We’re asking Christian to prayerfully consider giving another 2-3% towards our global missions effort.

A Practical Example

• At the end of this upcoming year, Christian’s giving might look like this: $970 – FRAC’s General Fund (88% of total)

97% of last year’s giving to General Fund

$150 – Missions Faith Promise (14%)

Christian’s 2015/16 Giving Total - $1,120

Why?

• To place a greater emphasis on missions giving at Front Range Alliance Church

• To increase awareness of the Great Commission Fund

• To simplify how our missions giving works • To increase our overall giving to missions

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