Giving to the Church
Wednesday 30 April 2008 at 08:25 amDid you know that it costs around £55,000 per year to run St Andrew's Church? This is regular spending on parish share (ministry costs paid to the Diocese), heating, lighting, cleaning, insurance, administration and printing etc. It does not include payments for major repairs. At the moment we are facing a shortfall between this and our income from collections, fundraising, fees and so on which is having to be met from reserves. The more we take from reserves the less interest we get from those accounts thus making the problem worse as time goes on.
With this in mind regular churchgoers have been asked over the last few weeks to reflect on what we are giving to the church in financial donations to enable St Andrew's to go on doing God‘s work, both in terms of serving the regular congregation and providing care for the rest of the community.