2025/2026 PROPOSED BUDGET

This document is the proposed 2025/2026 operational budget, which is to be voted on by the voting members by August 4, 2024. If you need to vote absentee, you may do so any time by coming to the front office between July 20, when this proposal has been distributed, and the voting deadline of August 3. If you wish to receive an expansive Budget Memorandum and/or a line-by-line budget breakdown, please contact the church office and a printed or electronic version may be provided to you.

PROJECTED CHURCH INCOME

SUMMARY OF EXPENSES

If you would like to review the expanded church budget memo click HERE or contact the church office for a physical copy. 

Footnotes

  1. Rental prices have leveled off and therefore we will not be increasing rent on any of our tenants this year so the expected income is flat year-over-year.

  2. The church always saves surplus funds and currently holds them in several investment accounts which are generating income for us. This fiscal year, we are going to put this savings into our expense planning to ensure that we set aside those funds to pay for future expansion or unforeseen costs. These expected savings are decreased from last year due to a leveling off of overall congregational offerings as Pastor Aaron noted in the introduction to this memorandum.

  3. While our church gives direct financial support to several local organizations the primary way we invest and support our local partners is with the hours of volunteer time that we dedicate toward these organizations. We pay our youth pastor, associate pastor, and the other pastors to use some of their work time to minister to our community in partnership with these organizations which is a significant investment beyond the direct giving outlined here. 

  4. In this budget year we will be adding direct financial support to our friends at the Pregnancy Care Center. In the past we would support this ministry with the funds in our general Local Outreach budget line # 139.1.15 on occasion. This year we are increasing our overall financial support for this ministry and creating a separate budget line.

  5. Our International Missions funding is increasing nearly 23% over last year, this is due to several thousand more being given directly to support new pastors in Uganda through ARM’s Mobile Bible School, and a significant increase in support and participation for our short-term mission trips to Mexico.

  6. Our staff costs are only increasing for a 2% cost of living adjustment this year, and we don’t expect any staffing changes.

  7. This year we are suggesting an increase in our investment towards our facilities as we work toward expanding our church campus. The majority of this amount will go toward completing the ongoing parking lot renovations which includes rock and gravel, new asphalt, new parking spot painting, new sidewalks and driveway adjustments, along with several new landscaping areas for a hedge and street tree which are required by the City of Canby and will make our parking lot both functional and visually appealing. Other facility funds may be used to improve rooms within the church as needed

  8. The cost of our rental properties is going down notably due to a more realistic assessment of costs for this upcoming year, and the removal of one of our rental properties in the later part of the last budget cycle.