More about the Budget and Budget Process

We are at about the halfway point of conversations with the various Ministries and Teams developing our 2026 Budget. We are asking all of the ‘leads’ to imagine what their area of ministry will undertake for the year:

  • services to be provided
  • income that might be generated by their efforts
  • expenses that will be incurred trying to make it happen
  • resource risks and opportunities that exist within their area of responsibility
  • what capital expenditures might be associated with the delivery of their programs
  • and how and where investment or the delay of investment in their area of responsibility might impact the ability to deliver according to their plan.

This information is being collected in ‘sub-budgets’. Small, simple, understandable spreadsheets that speak to each part of our increasingly complex model. By looking at the individual components — the needs of the various Ministries and Programs — the Board and the congregation will be in a position to build a financial plan that finds the money to fund the mission.

Here’s the math:

   this is what we have to start with
+ this is what we want to do this year
+ this is our 5-year plan that we need to save toward
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= this is the amount of money we need to raise to equip our mission. 

A huge thank you to all the Ministry and Team Leads that are contributing to the process.

Gordon Miller

AND here is an example of one of the finished components:

Ministries And Programs
JBUC Office