For this report, I met with Pastor Dave Drury at Baldwin for lunch today, along with Joel Liechty who is also doing his practicum with Pastor Dave. We talked over the procedure for developing a budget for College Church, from the individual budgets to the whole. It is as follows:
Individual ministry areas create their idea budget
- This includes coming up with an exact number of what they think they need to operate
their ministry for the next year.
Then those budgets are submitted to Pastor Dave for review
- Pastor Dave takes all the budgets and decides which budget gets cut if needed and
which budget should get exactly what is asked for; he makes sure everything is needed
so that parties don’t have to argue in person for money. He is an unbiased person who
can make the decisions on importance of the budgets. He decides what is most
missional for next year and what to protect.
Once these are decided upon by Pastor Dave, they are then voted on by the LBA
- This is the Local Board of Administration at the church. They have the right to make
changes as they see fit. They have to come to a decision on what needs to change and
why. They have the say on the larger, big picture things, such as building projects.
Once the LBA approves the overall budget, it is then voted on by the Local Church Conference
- This is the meeting of all the voting members of the Church. They then have the
ability to propose a change with an addition or subtraction of funds in the budget. This
happens in the month of May as decided by the District.
This process seems to cut out the possible conflicts and hurt feelings in between the ministry leaders and gives them all equal opportunity when it comes to getting their “peace of the pie.” This also gives all the members their chance for input on the budget. I think that this is a good process and seems to work well for the church.
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