As Global Methodist churches are preparing for the new year, an important part of the budget is Connectional Funding. The vast majority of Global Methodist churches have never calculated how much they were to support their denomination. I thought this would be a good excuse for a new spreadsheet.
With so many churches recently joining the Global Methodist denomination, I had an excuse to make a new spreadsheet! Hopefully this helps understand how to care for pastor benefits and connectional funding.
The other day I was visiting with a pastor of a brand new Global Methodist church. For nearly a year, the church had been focused on disaffiliating and was now refocusing on ministry. It all of a sudden occurred to the pastor, “Do Global Methodists pay apportionments?” That’s what I look into this post.
Have you ever been tasked with trying to explain apportionments to someone else? Where do they come from? How much are they? What good do they do? I hope to cover this concisely with this post and related video.
Rebecca Trefz and I did this video some time ago. While a lot of church leaders want to know where apportionments go, this video actually gets at the heart of what apportionment giving is all about. I figure that folks could just watch the budget video or read the budget if they want to know…
