finance for our church
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John Sherlock's presentation on StewardshipTRANSCRIPT
Finance for our Local Church
Church of the Good Shepherd3 February 2013
Stewardship ?
Money ‘represents’ us
“What we do with our money proclaims who we think we are – whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not.
All our actions in some degree reveal us; why should our economic life be different?
Why should this too not be an area in which we help to shape our eternal destiny, a matter of sin or holiness?”
Archbishop Rowan Williams
My Task• Help our local churches elicit
£32 million annually from the good people of Sussex
• About £60 a minute
• £1 per household per week would do it!
Diocese of Chichester – 2013
Local churchesin Sussex
£32m turnover
369 parishes
524 churches
360 otherproperties
£17m
diocesanadministered
funds £1m to NCIs*
£3m dioc. income
£14m parishcontributions
£13m personnel
£1m insurance
£2m support servs
£15m plannedgiving
£3m appeals
£2m legacies
£3m tax back
£9m other
£2m given away
£16m locally administered
*NCIs are the National Church Institutions. This amount includes Chichester’s subsidy of other dioceses.
All amounts rounded to nearest £1m – some up, some down
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£25m RECURRING
£7mOTHER
£32m TOTAL
Different motivators
WORSHIPPINGTOGETHER
SHARING OURFAITH & VALUES
VALUING THE BUILDINGS
SERVING THE COMMUNITY
Knowing God
Diocese of Chichester – 2013
Local churchesin Sussex
£32m turnover
369 parishes
524 churches
360 otherproperties
£17m
diocesanadministered
funds £1m to NCIs*
£3m dioc. income
£14m parishcontributions
£13m personnel
£1m insurance
£2m support servs
£15m plannedgiving
£3m appeals
£2m legacies
£3m tax back
£9m other
£2m given away
£16m locally administered
*NCIs are the National Church Institutions. This amount includes Chichester’s subsidy of other dioceses.
All amounts rounded to nearest £1m – some up, some down
Version 121203
£25m RECURRING
£7mOTHER
£32m TOTAL
www.chichester.anglican.org/pips
Engagement and efficiency
% contributingx
x
amount givenx
efficiency
= £
% of households engaged by church
Efficiency
A way of seeing things …How much?
• It’s all GOD’s
• How much of it do I need to operate?
ENCOURAGEMENT !
YOU are
• one of 2.1 billion Christians worldwide– united by Baptism
• Part of the Church of England– over 13,000 parishes
• One of a millionC of E worshippers on Sunday– About 1.7 million each month
The Church of England …
• Looks after 16,200 church buildings– and 43 cathedrals
• Each year, parishes GIVE – to causes outside the C of E
MORE than BBC Children in Need
• About 1 million pupils are educated– In 4,700 C of E schools
Share of UK giving….
One pound in every £20given to charity in the UK is given to the Church of England
One pound in every £10 paid out by HMRC through Gift Aid comes to the Church of England
