Tuesday Report #1 Making A Budget

This past Friday, January 16, I interviewed Emily Vermilya. Emily Vermilya is the Worship Arts Director at College Wesleyan Church.

The following is the step by step procedure Emily gave me on how the church goes about making a yearly budget.

1. All staff members (Worship Director, Young Adult Pastor, Youth Pastor…etc) create a budget for their given department. This budget is then submitted to the Executive Pastor team (Senior Pastor, Executive Pastor & Congregational Life Pastor).

2. The Executive Pastor team pieces the budget proposals together to form the 1^st proposed budget.

3. The Local Board of Administration and the Executive Pastor team meet and make more edits to the budget.

4. This edited budget becomes the final budget and is signed appropriately.