Comments on: CP At 91.88% Of Budget After 3 Months

By: Tony Kummer

Tony Kummer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:50:35 +0000

@Cameron: Good point, I wasn’t aware that was the practice in some parts. The bad news was the comparison to Dec 07 giving was way down too.

By: Cameron Moore

Cameron Moore — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:39:59 +0000

I don’t know what other churches do, but our church holds all of our CP dollars until the very end of the year when we have our big World Missions in-gathering day. I doubt the SBC would be able to process our gift until early January. There may not be many churches that do things the way we do, but I’m curious to see how the second quarter turns out.

By: Greg Alford

Greg Alford — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:29:06 +0000

Tony, It is only going to get worse… “For the month, receipts of $14,067,108.90 were 14.71 percent, or $2,426,627.36 below the $16,493,736.26 received in December 2007.” “The $3,335,204.76 in designated gifts received last month is $1,340,441.20 below the $4,675,645.96 received in December 2007, a decrease of 28.76 percent.” And the economy is still shrinking… we very well could see a 20% decrease in overall giving by the time 2008-2009 is over. This is going to hurt, there is no way to avoid it. It is time to start asking some very tough questions about how and where the money is being spent in the SBC. Grace Always, Greg Alfords last blog post..Calvinist are not Christians?