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

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: Expenses: 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

8. Presbytery of Great Rivers: Multi-Year Budget – Current Model
July 30, 2019
Actual
Budget
Year End
2018
2019
2019 EST.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Receipts
Presbytery Per Capita
$ ,358
$ ,737
$ ,000
$ ,389
$ ,690
$ ,727
$ ,467
$ ,910
Interest Income $ $
$ ,500
$ ,800
Mission
82,550
75,000
79,000
75,849
70,568
65,578
60,558
55,599
Dividends & Unrealized Gain (Loss)
(59,878)
30,000
29,803
25,481
20,772
14,383
7,571
Trust Clause Payments
12,216
12,200 -
TOTAL RECEIPTS
$ ,004
$ ,937
$ ,700
$ ,041
$ ,738
$ ,077
$ ,438
$ ,879 $ $ $ $ $ $
Synod of Lincoln Trails Per Capita
3.81
} = $12.76
General Assembly Per Capita
7.73
8.95 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
Membership of Presbytery
12,286
11,083
10,641
9,900
9,200
8,500
7,800
% paying members
81.3%
90.7%
84.2%
85%
Equivalent paying members
9,988
10,053
8,965
8,415
7,820
7,225
6,630
 % Reduction in membership
9.8%
4.0%
7.0%
7.1%
7.6%
8.2%
 Unpaid P.C.
$ ,386
$ ,320
$ ,299
$ ,225
$ ,099
 Lost Income
$ ,967
$ ,239
$ ,305
$ ,318
$ ,278
 Total Impact
$ ,353
$ ,559
$ ,604
$ ,543
$ ,377

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. Presbytery of Great Rivers: Multi-Year Budget – Current Model
July 30, 2019
Actual
Budget
Year End
Expenses 
2018
2019
2019 EST.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Presbytery Office *
$ ,437
$ ,000
$ ,420
$ ,591
$ ,214
$ ,163
$ ,661
$ ,210
Meeting Expenses
$ ,145
$ ,400
$ ,500
$ ,547
$ ,698
$ ,854
$ ,015
$ ,180
Administration Expenses
$ ,640
$ ,250
$ ,119
$ ,300
$ ,712
$ ,682
$ ,615
$ ,011
Mission Programs
$ ,853
$ ,000
$ ,425
$ ,000
COM/CPM Expenses
$ ,005
$ ,700
$ ,520
$ ,200
Personnel
$ ,179
$ ,778
$ ,381
$ ,455
$ ,635
$ ,899
$ ,248
$ ,684
TOTAL Budgeted EXPENSES
$ ,259
$ ,128
$ ,365
$ ,094
$ ,459
$ ,799
$ ,739
$ ,286
Revenues in Excess of Expenses
$ (92,255)
$ (59,191)
$ (61,665)
$ (108,053)
$ (117,722)
$ (159,722)
$ (170,301)
$ (219,406)
* 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. 1854: Rushville Presbytery 1920s: Rock River Presbytery
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)
New Jersey is merging presbyteries 9 -> 3.

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

32. 2 2 2+ 1 1 2 2 2 2
Numbers indicate which presbyteries have a stated clerk and a lead presbyter. ? 2+ 2

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. Conference Map: United Church of Christ
Western Association
Eastern Association
Association = presbytery equivalent
Conference Map: United Church of Christ

37. Regional Map: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Northern Illinois Synod
Central/Southern Illinois Synod
Their synods = our presbyteries
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
The back story is that the people are sitting in Babylon, and feeling like their world had been destroyed and God must have abandoned them. It's all doom and gloom. This is God's word of grace, telling them that they will not be abandoned,  God will come to them swiftly like on a super highway.  He will escort them to a new reality.

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)
Generated by the generosity of churches in support of Pres., Synod, & GA.
Per member charge
Presbytery $ $21.46
Synod
General Assembly
TOTAL: $ $34.22

46. 2018
2019
2020
Change
Income
Actuals
Budget
Per Capita
$ 204,358
$ 215,737
$ 192,390
($23,347)
Missions
82,550
75,000
75,850
850
Div. & Unrealized Gain(Loss)
(59,878)
30,000
29,800
(200)
Interest
758 -
2,800
Trust Clause Payments
12,216
12,200
TOTAL
$ 240,004
$ 332,937
$ 313,040
($ 19,897)
Expenses
Offices Expenses
44,437
45,000
40,196
(4,804)
Committee Meetings
6,145
5,400
3,300
(2,100)
Administrations Expenses
51,316
36,250
40,836
4,586
Mission Programs
20,177
79,000
66,500
(12,500)
COM/CPM
3,005
12,700
14,200
1,500
Staff Expenses
207,179
213,778
227,357
13,579
$ 332,259
$ 392,128
$ 392,389
261
Revenues in Excess of Expenses
($92,255)
($59,191)
($79,349)
($20,158)

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