In Craig Groeshel's fourth blog on the United Methodist Church, he tackled our apportionment system. Apportionments are part of the United Methodist Church's connectionalism. Each church gives from their own budget/income to pay for the conference/jurisdictional/global iniatives of the Methodist Church. This money supports ministry on a local, regional and global level. Part of this money also supports the pension fund of the UMC (I believe). I'll be quite honest, I have little grasp on how apportionments are decided. What I do know is that they can have a large impact on both large and small churches. (Read More Below)
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
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