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TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.5, N0.5
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
REPORT FROM THE TREASURER'S OFFICE
February 3, 1983
FEBRUARY 4, 1983
We now have the financial information for January. It is very good compared
to January last year, with a 12.7% increase in income. This is not as great
an increase as December's, which was 20% more than December, 1981, but it is
still more than last year's increase of 11.4%.
We have been working on a combined financial report for the worldwide work,
which we hope will be in the February 21 edition of THE WORLDWIDE NEWS. We
expect to include information showing that there has been an upturn in
donations from co-workers and donors during 1982 of about $2.5 million.
The worldwide income was over $117 million, a 10.2% increase over 1981.
Since ttat report will give more details about the overall finances world
wide, this report is a little shorter than usual.
--Leroy Neff, Treasurer
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Church Anniversaries
There seems to be more and more interest in celebrating the anniversary of
the beginnings of local Churches. As the number of Churches approaching
their 20th or 25th anniversary increases, more and more questions come up
regarding the cost of these celebrations.
Because we have to be concerned with the budget and the impact on the
current financial situation, we don't want to either encourage or
discourage these celebrations. However, we do feel that the celebration
should be low-key and for the local area only. The policy for ministerial
visits to an anniversary celebration is that the time must be considered as
personal time off and requested according to policy. Any cost of travel,
such as gasoline expense for a fleet car, must be personal as well--the same
as the fleet policy f�r vacation travel.
Because there are 15 Churches in the United States which will be
approaching their 20th or 25th anniversary this year, we have to be
circumspect about cost. Even though 15 may sound small, it involves 65
present and past pastors plus associate and assistant pastors.
As a
result, the only item Ministerial Services can help with is a moderate
increase in the cost of hall rental for the one Sabbath involved. All other
costs must be covered by the hosting Church and its guests.
U.S. Hall Rentals
We need your help with a slight change on the Hall Rental voucher. Effec
tive immediately, please start putting the Church code on the voucher in
the box along with the Church name. The reason we need to start doing this
is that some t�ago the auditors suggested we should have a better system