Hi Ray,
Have you ever heard folks say when you are working on a budget you should first "purpose in your heart" an amount to be set aside to be given to your church and your retirement or savings and then lay out a budget to pay your bills, pay for vacations, buy clothes, buy a new house, buy a new car, hire a maid or chauffeur and etc? I will presume you have because I have. When you cannot make ends meet, based on discussions when the topic was benevolence, the attitude of the men of our congregation would be you should cut back on expenses, refinance loans, sell off assets such as cars etc stop buying anything not absolutely necessary and get another job or jobs.
Here is a suggestion for the Budget Committee. When you are developing the GSMCOC budget for 2012 first of all set aside money to do what the church is supposed to do. Not for ourselves but for others: taking the gospel to Pigeon Forge; setting aside funds for benevolence and projects such as those that the women have going and etc then layout the budget to pay the bills. If we cannot make ends meet we should cut back. If we cannot cut back due to commitments we have to figure out something such as looking into refinancing the building, reduction of staff salaries or reduction of staff etc. Instead of another job or jobs an organization such as GSMCOC has to seek additional contributions etc
This might be a reasonable time for us to practice what we tell others to do.
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the conclusion that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.
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