This provides for our pastor to have a salary, health insurance, and retirement, along with continuing education funding and mileage to needed meetings. This provides for our church to have consistent preaching and teaching, pastoral care, youth ministry, administrative leadership, connection to the wider church, and guidance in mission, vision, and direction.

This "keeps the lights on" for our ministry, paying utilities and insurance bills, pest control, postage, supplies, custodial needs, and guest accompanists. Without these costs being covered, we could not continue ministry at it's current level.

In addition to the mission funding provided by our women's guild and other church organizations, we give from the church budget to global, national, and statewide ministries through the wider United Church of Christ. We give locally through our dues to the local association and by giving directly to the Master's Workshop Camp, Eden Seminary, and Mission Waco.

Part of good stewardship means that we covenant with you to spend and save this money well. We give some of our money to a savings account we can pull from when in need and to our building repair and improvement fund.