Tag: Apportionments
Grateful for our union benefits
![Hands in a circle](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/union_benefits_TOP-jpg.webp)
In this op-ed, retired pastor Glenn M. Wagner shares from his four decades of pastoral experience significant benefits of the “United” in our UMC.
Conference program staff to transition, reduce
![Michigan Conference administrative office](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lansing_office_top.png)
The Michigan Conference announces program staff restructuring, reductions, and reassignments needed to meet budget projections for 2024.
Denominational giving drops for 3rd year
![Giving down third year in a row](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Giving-Pixabay-Gerd-Altmann-Lauren-Glass.jpg)
The decline in UMC giving comes as COVID-19 continues its menace and a possible denominational separation is on the horizon.
Leaders consider the UMC’s bottom line
![Leaders look at the offering plate](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Offering-Plate-960-Kathleen-Barry-umns13_215_1.jpg)
For now, leaders of the General Council on Finance and Administration propose cutting the budget for denomination-wide ministries by nearly a third, starting in 2023.
Finance board gets update on giving
![COVID-19 is one factor affecting finance in the UMC reports uptick in giving during COVID](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Finance-during-COVID-960-umnews-via-Pixabay.jpg)
The General Council on Finance and Administration learns of volatility in apportionment giving across the connection. Collection rates in the first quarter varied widely among the seven general church funds.
General Agencies cutting back
![Board of Global Ministries one of agencies making cuts](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mexico-migrants-8-walking-690.jpg)
Faced with an ongoing pandemic and denominational uncertainty, United Methodist general agencies are reducing staff while trying to stay true to their missions.
Estimating financial impact of exits
![Financial impact of potential UMC split](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Offering-plate.jpg)
Financial forecast … a survey of conferences projects that a 20% decline in local church net expenditures will result in about $41 million less in requested apportionments by 2024.
UMs give as ‘Easter people’
![Financial impact of potential UMC split](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Offering-plate.jpg)
Though dispirited following the 2019 General Conference, the people of The United Methodist Church rallied in giving to denomination-wide ministries.
Scripture key in WCA discipline
![WCA meets on future of church](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/WCA-Nov-2019.jpg)
The WCA has released a first draft of Doctrines and Discipline, toward the possible creation of a new, traditionalist church.
She heard God’s call on campus
![Deb Johnson, an MEF recipient, at the lakeshore](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Deb-Johnson.png)
Ministry Shares support United Methodist seminaries and students on campus. Like the Rev. Deborah Johnson, alumnae of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.