Post 1: Church Budget

Here is College Wesleyan Church's Budget in percentages from Largest to Smallest.

I interviewed Thad Spring on Wednesday, January 7.  

46.6% on Minsters and staff including benefits

33.18% on Facilities including debt payments

11.74 on Programs

8.49% on Denomination support and missions

Three things that I found to be very interesting were:

1.  College church spends less than half of its budget on salary, which I feel is better than most churches do.

2.  I found it very interesting that there is only three percent more of the budget put into programming within the church than support of the denomination outside of the building.

3.  In looking at the sum total of everything all added up, it was a great reminder of how much money comes through a church in a year and the great responsibility that comes with that.