Embracing a Season of Fruitfulness at the Summit
Attendees of the quadrennial Leadership Summit close worship in prayer before beginning workshops. This year, the summit was held at Vancouver: First UMC.
The Leadership...
Stop the Presses!! – New Overtime Laws are on hold! #FLSA
By Rik Jamieson | Assistant PNW Conference Treasurer
Just before Thanksgiving a federal court in Texas granted a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of proposed changes to...
GCFA Reports on UMData.org, 2014 Church Statistics, New Treasurers Training Event and Virtual Appointment...
Nashville, TN – The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) is announcing that general statistical information about the church, formerly contained in the printed General...
Surcharge coming for PNW churches who fail to use Background Check credit
By Teri Tobey | Program Associate for Young People's Ministries
Your church received an advance premium credit as an incentive to complete background checks on staff...
The United Methodist Church Giving App Rebranded and Now Available for Android and iOS...
Nashville, TN – The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA), working in partnership with Vanco Payment Solutions has developed and improved the convenient...
The church budget…..It’s for you, not from you!
By Rik Jamieson | Assistant PNW Conference Treasurer
Wait, what?... Let’s take a moment and talk about how the church budget is for you, not from you....
How We Can Do More for Less
Apportioned giving is one of the most misunderstood things in United Methodism. Sometimes maligned as taxes funding a shadowy bureaucracy, they are more appropriately...
