Stewardship by the Numbers: Budget
This is how LNPC spends money:
(numbers are approximate and based on 2017 budget & spending)
Our building provides a home for FRNNG, an artist in residence, an office for spiritual directors, two congregations in addition to us: Iglesia Fuego Pentecostes, and Central Fellowship, and offers the community space to gather for groups such as TOPS, La Leche, Amigos de las Americas, Girl Scouts, a parenting class, several yoga classes, a spiritual director’s training class, and others. This year our building has again been home to St. Joseph’s Movie Camp, Westminster’s VBS, art exhibits from local artists, a fabulous Ham & Cherry Pie Dinner and more.
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 associate 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. $119,000.
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 Simpson shelter, 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 Immigrant Law Center of MN, the Council on American Islamic Relations, The International Institute, divided up among members for the Pentecost Tithe Project – given in a variety of ways to love and serve others, Central Fellowship (who repeated the Pentecost tithe project among their own community), Nokomis Healthy Seniors, Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners, First Presbyterian Church in Anesco, Puerto Rico doing hurricane relief work in the community, and Marnita’s Table, fostering connection across differences through meals and conversation. 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. We take four special offerings a year for global initiatives, and hold in prayer and support our candidate under care in his seminary journey.
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. $18,000.
This year our ministry has encouraged others when Kara has spoken at a several conferences and workshops for church leaders and pastors, (including in Australia & New Zealand!), and our worship practices, and learning about Sabbath, have inspired worship for many other pastors and communities connected with us online. We walked with Marty through his sickness and death, welcomed new babies and brought meals to their parents, ate waffles together, asked probing questions, and shared worship and learning with Central Fellowship. We study the bible together and teach our children the stories of our faith in Sunday school and through our worship together, and help people discern their calling and gain experience in ministry. We drive each other to medical appointments, hold each other’s babies, pot luck together and hold each other in prayer. We host art exhibits for the community, and learn from the lives, travels and experiences of others. We are tending our souls and experiencing a deepening prayer life through our Saturday prayer services, and learning and worshiping God together, and learning and growing with youth group, adult ed and Sunday school on Sundays.
In all these things we seek to support each other in our relationship with God
and living 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. $5000.
TOTAL BUDGET: $174,000
*The building maintenance fund anticipating needing a new roof in the next 2-4 years.
(numbers are approximate and based on 2017 budget & spending)
Our building provides a home for FRNNG, an artist in residence, an office for spiritual directors, two congregations in addition to us: Iglesia Fuego Pentecostes, and Central Fellowship, and offers the community space to gather for groups such as TOPS, La Leche, Amigos de las Americas, Girl Scouts, a parenting class, several yoga classes, a spiritual director’s training class, and others. This year our building has again been home to St. Joseph’s Movie Camp, Westminster’s VBS, art exhibits from local artists, a fabulous Ham & Cherry Pie Dinner and more.
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 associate 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. $119,000.
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 Simpson shelter, 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 Immigrant Law Center of MN, the Council on American Islamic Relations, The International Institute, divided up among members for the Pentecost Tithe Project – given in a variety of ways to love and serve others, Central Fellowship (who repeated the Pentecost tithe project among their own community), Nokomis Healthy Seniors, Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners, First Presbyterian Church in Anesco, Puerto Rico doing hurricane relief work in the community, and Marnita’s Table, fostering connection across differences through meals and conversation. 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. We take four special offerings a year for global initiatives, and hold in prayer and support our candidate under care in his seminary journey.
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. $18,000.
This year our ministry has encouraged others when Kara has spoken at a several conferences and workshops for church leaders and pastors, (including in Australia & New Zealand!), and our worship practices, and learning about Sabbath, have inspired worship for many other pastors and communities connected with us online. We walked with Marty through his sickness and death, welcomed new babies and brought meals to their parents, ate waffles together, asked probing questions, and shared worship and learning with Central Fellowship. We study the bible together and teach our children the stories of our faith in Sunday school and through our worship together, and help people discern their calling and gain experience in ministry. We drive each other to medical appointments, hold each other’s babies, pot luck together and hold each other in prayer. We host art exhibits for the community, and learn from the lives, travels and experiences of others. We are tending our souls and experiencing a deepening prayer life through our Saturday prayer services, and learning and worshiping God together, and learning and growing with youth group, adult ed and Sunday school on Sundays.
In all these things we seek to support each other in our relationship with God
and living 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. $5000.
TOTAL BUDGET: $174,000
*The building maintenance fund anticipating needing a new roof in the next 2-4 years.
