| One
of the responsibilities of the Finance Ministry is to prepare the annual
budget for Bayside Presbyterian Church. This is accomplished with input
from the other ministries, and from the estimates of giving received from
the Commitment Ministry from the Fall Stewardship Campaign. Once the data
is received from these sources, then the budget is prepared and presented
to the Session for approval for the following calendar year.
Ongoing,
the Finance Ministry makes timely reports of the financial status of the
church to the ministries and to the Session. Annual audits by an outside
CPA firm have found Bayside's financial records to be in great shape.
In
addition to preparing and monitoring Bayside's budget, the Finance Ministry
oversees the counting of the funds collected on Sundays. This is done in
a secure area with at least three rotating church members as tellers. The
use of pledge envelopes greatly simplify this procedure for the tellers
and the Church Treasurer.
The
Finance Ministry also makes recommendations to the Session for year end
disbursement of benevolent requests to organizations in the greater Church. |
