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Narrative Budgeting

 

How do our budgets become missional documents?  How do they show how we have been called to live out God's promise and call?  

 

Narrative Mission Budgets help tell the missional story of the congregation, helping to educate how money and giving supports the ministry of the church. 

 

Click below for a tutorial on constructing a Narrative Mission Budget (as a PDF and a Powerpoint presentation), as well as a sample budget (again, in both PDF and Powerpoint).  In addition there are also a set of questions called "A Summary Look at Church Finances" to help in your budget planning. 

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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