Stewardship by the Numbers: Budget
This is how LNPC spends money:
(numbers are approximate and based on 2018 & 2019 budget & spending)
Our building provides a home for FRNNG, an artist in residence, an office for spiritual directors and writers, two congregations in addition to us: Nuevo Pacto, and Central Fellowship, and offers the community space to gather for groups such as La Leche, Amigos de las Americas, Girl Scouts, several yoga classes, several theater groups, an Improv. Class, Wisdom Dancers, and parties celebrating life moments like baby showers and birthdays. Our space is one of our great resources to offer hospitality, and provides sacred space for worship and Sabbath. Our building serves our mission to our community. Caring for the building, including maintenance*, heat, water and electricity, costs approx. $32,000
We have a full-time pastor, a part-time administrator, a part-time music director, a contract custodian, and a contract church nanny. All of these people share their gifts and work to make our worship, hospitality and Sabbath living possible. They help us to live out our calling as followers of Christ and God’s people with one another for the world. These are the people who enable all of us to do the ministry of the church. Caring for these people (salaries, social security, worker’s comp and benefits) costs approx. $115,000
We do not exist for ourselves- we are part of the Church, God’s ministry happening everywhere. We share worship with Central Fellowship, are connected to other congregations in the community and in this presbytery, and partnered with TRUST churches and with Westminster. We help support Simpson Food shelf and serve meals at Our Saviour’s Housing four times a year. To cultivate trust and generosity, we give 10% of our income each month to another expression of God’s work in the world; this year that included The Sheridan Story, Anuak scholarship to send first generation kids to summer camp, St. Joseph’s Home for Children for movie camp and their summer garden, Our Saviour’s Housing, TRUST, and Exodus Lending, and six months toward the building maintenance fund toward a new roof, in honor of the many groups who use our space. Our General Mission Giving goes to Presbytery for: new church developments, Clearwater Forest, support for candidates & inquirers, Youth Triennium and the Church Resource Center, to the Synod for: Synod School, Native American congregations, support of campus ministries and training of Presbytery Committees, and to General Assembly for: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Church Leadership Connection, support for missionaries around the world, NCD Funding, Ethnic and justice ministries, and evangelism and church growth programs. Beyond what happens in our lives and that of our neighbors, we are part of the larger Body of Christ, and share in what God is doing in the world that we sometimes don’t see with our own eyes. Our tithe, partnership and mission giving is approx. $24,000
This year our ministry has encouraged others when Kara spoke at a couple of conferences and workshops and wrote a commentary about sabbath for a summer preaching series. We ate waffles together and started discerning about our building and future, drank lots of coffee (Coffees with Kara, Coffee & Donuts with the Pastor, Connections), asked probing questions, Stay-cated, church picnicked and retreated, and shared worship and learning with Central Fellowship. We studied the bible and explored our faith together in Sunday school, Faith formation class, in book club, and worship, and helped people discern their calling and gain experience in ministry. We drove each other to medical appointments and church events, played with each other’s kids, pot-lucked together and held each other in prayer. We tended our souls and experienced a deepening prayer life through our Saturday prayer services, Prayer Around the Cross, Ash Wednesday, Christmas Eve, and Good Friday. In all these things we sought to support each other in our relationship with God, and live out our faith in life-changing ways in the world every day.
We are the Body of Christ with and for each other and a blessing in the world. For what we do in Community, Education and Worship, we spend approx. $6000
TOTAL BUDGET: $177,000
*We are putting on a new roof - most likely in the Spring. This will be paid for by a combination of monies earmarked specifically for building maintenance in giving and savings (approx. $23,000), and a loan we've taken out from the Presbyterian Investment and Loan program (PILP) for $85,000. Payments will be between $500-600/month. We will offer creative ways people can help us pay down the loan in the coming year.
(numbers are approximate and based on 2018 & 2019 budget & spending)
Our building provides a home for FRNNG, an artist in residence, an office for spiritual directors and writers, two congregations in addition to us: Nuevo Pacto, and Central Fellowship, and offers the community space to gather for groups such as La Leche, Amigos de las Americas, Girl Scouts, several yoga classes, several theater groups, an Improv. Class, Wisdom Dancers, and parties celebrating life moments like baby showers and birthdays. Our space is one of our great resources to offer hospitality, and provides sacred space for worship and Sabbath. Our building serves our mission to our community. Caring for the building, including maintenance*, heat, water and electricity, costs approx. $32,000
We have a full-time pastor, a part-time administrator, a part-time music director, a contract custodian, and a contract church nanny. All of these people share their gifts and work to make our worship, hospitality and Sabbath living possible. They help us to live out our calling as followers of Christ and God’s people with one another for the world. These are the people who enable all of us to do the ministry of the church. Caring for these people (salaries, social security, worker’s comp and benefits) costs approx. $115,000
We do not exist for ourselves- we are part of the Church, God’s ministry happening everywhere. We share worship with Central Fellowship, are connected to other congregations in the community and in this presbytery, and partnered with TRUST churches and with Westminster. We help support Simpson Food shelf and serve meals at Our Saviour’s Housing four times a year. To cultivate trust and generosity, we give 10% of our income each month to another expression of God’s work in the world; this year that included The Sheridan Story, Anuak scholarship to send first generation kids to summer camp, St. Joseph’s Home for Children for movie camp and their summer garden, Our Saviour’s Housing, TRUST, and Exodus Lending, and six months toward the building maintenance fund toward a new roof, in honor of the many groups who use our space. Our General Mission Giving goes to Presbytery for: new church developments, Clearwater Forest, support for candidates & inquirers, Youth Triennium and the Church Resource Center, to the Synod for: Synod School, Native American congregations, support of campus ministries and training of Presbytery Committees, and to General Assembly for: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Church Leadership Connection, support for missionaries around the world, NCD Funding, Ethnic and justice ministries, and evangelism and church growth programs. Beyond what happens in our lives and that of our neighbors, we are part of the larger Body of Christ, and share in what God is doing in the world that we sometimes don’t see with our own eyes. Our tithe, partnership and mission giving is approx. $24,000
This year our ministry has encouraged others when Kara spoke at a couple of conferences and workshops and wrote a commentary about sabbath for a summer preaching series. We ate waffles together and started discerning about our building and future, drank lots of coffee (Coffees with Kara, Coffee & Donuts with the Pastor, Connections), asked probing questions, Stay-cated, church picnicked and retreated, and shared worship and learning with Central Fellowship. We studied the bible and explored our faith together in Sunday school, Faith formation class, in book club, and worship, and helped people discern their calling and gain experience in ministry. We drove each other to medical appointments and church events, played with each other’s kids, pot-lucked together and held each other in prayer. We tended our souls and experienced a deepening prayer life through our Saturday prayer services, Prayer Around the Cross, Ash Wednesday, Christmas Eve, and Good Friday. In all these things we sought to support each other in our relationship with God, and live out our faith in life-changing ways in the world every day.
We are the Body of Christ with and for each other and a blessing in the world. For what we do in Community, Education and Worship, we spend approx. $6000
TOTAL BUDGET: $177,000
*We are putting on a new roof - most likely in the Spring. This will be paid for by a combination of monies earmarked specifically for building maintenance in giving and savings (approx. $23,000), and a loan we've taken out from the Presbyterian Investment and Loan program (PILP) for $85,000. Payments will be between $500-600/month. We will offer creative ways people can help us pay down the loan in the coming year.
