A connectional church…

 

Since the early 1920’s, local Nazarene churches have pooled resources—budgets—in order to accomplish more.  These budgets support global mission outreach including missionaries, the denominational and regional centers, our educational institutions, and your district ministries, as well as providing a basic pension plan for our ministers.

 

Over the decades, the formula for calculating budgets became more and more complicated.  Every part of the old formula had a solid rationale, but pastors and lay leaders began to regard it as just another bill, nearly as complicated as IRS regulations.  Pressure was building to find a better way to fund our global mission.

 

The 2005 General Assembly mandated a “tithe concept” formula for raising funds based on current-year income.  It is a new philosophy on funding the global mission of the Church of the Nazarene to make Christ-like disciples in the nations.  As has been the case with every budget formula change in the last 30 years, a larger percentage of resources will stay at the local level.  Seventy-five percent of USA churches will experience lowered allocations.  While the new formula allocates about $13.5 million less to the WEF than the old formula (a 25% decrease), our global mission is becoming more effective.  The Church of the Nazarene will continue, as it has for more than 100 years, by the generosity of its churches and members.

 

Access fundingthemission.org at least monthly to report church income, check monies received, print remittance forms, make an online payment and so much more.

 

Checks should be mailed to the following addresses according to purpose: