Week 1- Church Budget - Anton

The Church Budget
Lakeview Wesleyan Church
I interviewed Waneta, who is our business supervisor on Jan 13th, at 11:00 a.m. until 11:25.
The Break down of the financial budget;
53% Ministers and Staff
24% Facilities
9% Programs
14% Denomination support & Missions

Three observations from the data we assessed;
1) The budget is difficult to divide into one of these four areas in some ways. There were some things that did not seem to fit in any of the categories that had been given. However along with this it was interesting how many did seem to fit into programming even though they receive the smallest of the percent of the total budget.

2) The Pastors and staff do receive the largest section or percent of the budget, and they also had the least number of lines in the actual budget.

3) It was neat to see what amount of the budget went toward missions. Although Lakeview has a separate amount for missions, for the purpose of the assignment we added it into the total amount budget. In all reality though, the church has a separate dedicated account for missions that is dependent on the number of missionaries that the church is currently supporting, and thus bases that separate budget accordingly.