Apportioned Funds

ANNUAL CONFERENCES IN ACTION

 

Churches pay apportionments for 2010 in January

Several Missouri Conference churches have already paid their apportionments in full for 2010. The following churches had paid 100% of their apportionments for 2010 by the end of January.

They are:

• Gateway Regional District: Caledonia, Bismark, Herculaneum, Champion City, Doe Run
• Heartland Central District: Belvidere (Grandview), Atherton
• Heartland North District: Grand Pass, Oakland (Buckner)
• Heartland South District: Montrose, Norris (Chilhowee), Lucas (Ulrich).
• Mark Twain District: Grace (Madison), St. Francisvile
• Mid-State District: Otterbein (Fulton), New Hope (Moberly), Smith Chapel (Rocheport)
• Ozark North District: Cross Timbers, Bear Creek (Osceola), Yeakley, Sleeper
• Pony Express District: Burlington Junction, Mt. Olive (Chillicothe), Maysville, Ebenezer (St.Joseph), Culbertson Chapel (Stewartsville)
• Southeast District: Fairview (Millersville), Deering
• Southwest District: New Liberty (Monett), New Hope (Joplin), Patten Chapel (Lawrence), Miller (Lawrence)

 

Second-mile giving tops $1.4 million in 2009

Illinois Great River conference congregations, in addition to paying 90 percent of apportionments to fund ministries and administrative functions, gave more than than $1.4 million to 368 different ministries.

Total giving of $1,419,056 for 2009 includes Special Sunday offerings, Golden Cross agencies, the Liberia initiative, special appeals and any other remittances to the Conference for various designated causes.

 

"This is about something bigger than any one of them. They just know there is a reason they feel good doing this, and God is that reason. They helped work a miracle."

--Retired teacher Francie Markham, describing volunteers for famine-stricken Zimbabwe

Whether we’re packing school supplies for a village in a distant land or putting money in our church offering plate, we know our gifts help God to work miracles. Some of the biggest miracles in The United Methodist Church happen because committed congregations pay their apportionments 100 percent.

One-hundred percent giving to United Methodism’s seven apportioned funds translates to supporting outreach through our church’s general agencies, paving the way for African students to pursue higher education, enriching 11 historically Black colleges, nurturing our bishops in their ministry, providing the financial backbone for General Conference, cooperating with people of other faiths and strengthening seminarians in their spiritual journey.

 

Apportioned funds enable United Methodists to do together what no church, district or annual conference could do alone.

All of this—and so much more—is possible because when we join The United Methodist Church, we promise faithfully to participate in its ministries through our prayers, presence, gifts and service. Paying our apportionments 100 percent, we become a part of something big and accomplish wonderful things in Jesus’ name!

 

There are Seven Apportioned Funds approved by General Conference:

Africa University Fund

Black College Fund

Episcopal Fund

General Administration Fund

Interdenominational Cooperation Fund

Ministerial Education Fund

World Service Fund