2020 BUDGET

1. 2020 BUDGET Bill Strawbridge bnc.sbridge@gmail.com 309 258-4015

2. Burning Platform

3. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B. Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

4. Current Budget Model • Income: • Per capita • Missions • Dividends, Interest, & Unrealized Gain (loss) on investments • Other. • Expenses: • Office expenses • Committee meeting expenses • Administration expenses • Mission programs • COM/CPM expenses • Staff expenses

5. Historical Membership ____ Projected Membership ------

9. Rates GA Synod $7.50 $3.81 $7.73 $3.81 $8.95 $3.81 $8.95 $3.81 GRP $20.69 $20.46 $21.46 $21.46

10. * Office savings already included.

13. Financial Manual The reserve funds of the presbytery shall not be allowed to go below the total of the following two amounts: budgeted amounts for salaries and related expenses (for one year); restricted funds. The presbytery may vote by a 2/3 majority to set aside this requirement.  The unrestricted funds must cover salaries & benefits.

16. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B. Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

19. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B. Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

21. Almost $34,000 savings by 2024

22. Other savings over next 5 years: • Office related expenses $16,200 • Committee meeting expenses $12,000 • Administration expenses $13,000 • Mission programs (Visioning) $75,500 • COM/CPM expenses $15,000 • Staff expenses (frozen) $63,000 Total $194,700

25. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B.Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

26. Barest Bones • Required by Book of Order: Stated Clerk • Needed to handle the money: bookkeeper

28. Volunteers, anyone?

29. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B.Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting (needs GA approval) E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

30. 1833: Schuyler Presbytery 1834: Sangamon Presbytery 1854: Rushville Presbytery 1920s: Rock River Presbytery 1976: Merger between Peoria, Alton, Bloomington, Monmouth, Springfield, (and also Rock River) Presbyteries to make Great Rivers Presbytery (Also southwestern most churches redistricted to Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery)

31. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B.Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

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33. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B.Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

34. Creating a Union with our Partners • Having agreed to enter into a full communion with one another on the basis of a common calling: • PCUSA • United Church of Christ • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America • Reformed Church in America • Moravian-Reformed Covenant Partnership • Covenant Relationship Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad

35. Map: PCUSA Presbyteries

36. Western Association Eastern Association Conference Map: United Church of Christ

37. Northern Illinois Synod Central/Southern Illinois Synod Regional Map: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

38. Map: Reformed Church in America

39. 2020 Budget & Beyond! • What does the future hold with our current budget model? • Possibilities, Early Explorations: A. Balanced Budget B.Controlled Descent C. Barest Bones D. Redistricting E. Sharing Staff F. Union Plan G. A Highway in the Desert

41. East Iowa Presbytery found that it had run out of money and had to do something different. Their plan included at its center the intention that: • the Presbytery would shift its cultural focus from being a staff-driven, vertically organized entity • to one in which we live together as a covenant community governed chiefly by elected groups of presbyters, • a more horizontal organization in keeping with Presbyterian principles and practices, • aiming to embrace and live out the central idea that we belong to one another.

43. What now? • Discuss next steps in a few minutes… • Build the 2020 budget off the “Controlled Descent” model.

44. Controlled descent • With falling incomes, use reasonable cost controls. The following are our assumptions for the 2020 budget. • Hold per capita constant for 2020 • Savings on office rent, maintenance, cleaning • Unpaid per capita continues to exceed $20,000 annually • Visioning becomes 15% of total expenses, about an $11,000 reduction. • Staff salaries frozen at current levels for one year.

45. Per Capita (current budget model) • Per capita • Generated by the generosity of churches in support of Pres., Synod, & GA. Per member charge20192020 Presbytery $21.46 $21.46 Synod 3.81 3.81 General Assembly 8.95 8.95 TOTAL: $34.22 $34.22

47. Next steps: • Praise God that Christ has given us the opportunity, resources, and time to discern God’s will together. • Thank you, our churches, for your continued involvement and support! • Embrace Admin’s 2020 plan, while investing time for Leadership, Admin, and Visioning to help us explore the possibilities, before our current model is no longer viable. • Join the conversation! Speak to nominating committee about where you might fit. • Stay tuned for upcoming news on town hall opportunities. • Pray – discern – pray – discuss – pray – propose – pray – act. • Trust God will lead us down the super-highway to our new reality. (Isaiah 55)

48. QUESTIONS? Bill Strawbridge bnc.sbridge@gmail.com 309 258-4015 Julio Garcia

49. At your tables… 1. Select 1 person to take notes. 2. Complete 1 of these sentences: “I think…” “I feel…” “I am…” 3. Make space for everyone to share! - 10 Minutes - Your words will be shared with the Leadership, Admin, and Visioning Teams