Editor’s note: Immanuel’s stewardship committee is presenting a series of articles highlighting one segment of the congregation’s budgeted ministries each month. So far, the series has examined parish administration, facility costs and our ministry at a distance.
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This month our focus is on our ministry to our community, approximately 10 percent of our current annual budget.
This portion of our budget includes support for Cross Lines, Hollis Renewal Center, Inner City Missions, Community LINC, Metro Lutheran Ministry, the Oromo speaking congregation, Budget and Financial Management Assistance, Westport Cooperative Services, Back-to-School, CCO and our emergency needs funds.
Also remember that we provide our facility to MLM for their Christmas Store, and that the Youth Works volunteers and staff that occupy our spaces this summer provide approximately 560 volunteer hours per week to various not-for-profit agencies during their stay with us.
For our illustrations here, we have also included a portion of Pastor Jennifer Thomas’s and Carolyn Wilson’s salaries and benefits in this ministry segment.
