Thank you for your continued faithfulness and generous giving. You may be aware by now that we ended 2016 with an operating surplus of $29,556! Though we fell slightly short ($1,022) of our budgeted operating revenue for 2016, savings in expenses totaled $30,578. The result was a significant budget surplus.
The 2017 operating budget is a slight decline from 2016’s budget of $1,076,000. In December of 2016 Session approved a $1,065,504 operational budget. While the decrease of $11,924 represents a cut in certain elements of the budget, we are able to maintain our $104,780 Mission budget, as well as provide a $7,500 increase for Hebron’s Discipleship Budget of $43,785. The 2017 budget also includes some staff raises for the first time in two years.
In our effort to keep you informed of our financial picture going forward, we will be reporting a summary of the weekly revenue every week in the bulletin as well as a comparison of revenue to expenses on a monthly basis. We will also continue to include a monthly Stewardship article in the Herald. The goal of the Stewardship Committee in 2017 is to create within the Body of Christ at Hebron a love and passion for living as faithful stewards of the resources God has graciously given to us. We are excited to see how God works in and through Hebron in 2017.
