A Note From Our Council President

Happy Summer to each of you!!!! This month my message is about money. Before I hear all the groans about this topic, I want you to know that the message is very positive. If you remember last November 2023 we passed a very aggressive budget for the 2024 year. There were appropriately concerns about the congregation’s ability to meet the budget for the year.

After all we are a very small congregation. Since we are now half way through the year I thought it was important to let you know where we stand with our budget. I am pleased to say that we are meeting our goals and although it does vary month to month our income is exceeding our expenses at the half way mark of the year.

I think it’s important to recognize the reasons our Church is successful financially. First your Church Council monitors the budget month to month. We evaluate our income vs our expenses. We look for ways to save money and prayerfully evaluate where we spend the Church’s income. Second, we have a wonderful budget team that gathers every fall to provide us with a church budget. Multiple needs are considered when writing a budget including salaries, our buildings and what the needs will be for that year as well as the needs of our task forces and committees. The Budget is a complex task and time consuming and we are blessed to have the wonderful task force which includes Michael Puckett, Ron Crawford, Bob Holden, Louise Reep and Betty Weddle. Not all churches are so fortunate.

Last, but perhaps our most important component to our financial success is you the congregation of Trinity. Many of you are incredibly generous in supporting our financial needs and your Church appreciates it immensely. Every contribution whether big or small helps.

Please keep the contributions coming.

Of course, I do have to mention just a few other things. Please remember to continue your financial contributions during the summer. Many of us travel and some of us just don’t want to be out in the heat so please make sure your weekly contribution continues during those Sunday’s you are not present. Envelopes can be mailed to the church or given at the next service. We hope to have our automatic giving system up and running soon which will be another method of providing financial support when you cannot be present with us. Our air conditioning system needed two new units and we were blessed to have the Building Fund which covered this large expenditure. We will need to build that fund up again so please think about starting to donate to the Building Fund again.

I can’t predict if the outcome will be the same at the end of the year as it is mid-year for our budget. I have faith that it will be since this continues to be such a wonderful, loving congregation who always rises to the need. Thank you too each and every one of you!!!!!!

“The mark of a great church is not how many people come, but how many people live differently for having been there.”

Terry Jones

Church Council President 2024

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