Conference Budget

Please reference Schedules A and Schedule B for a summary of the conference budget for April 2012.

The total annual budget for 2012 shows revenue of $3.40 million and expenses of $3.050 million. The conference expense budget for 2012 of $3.050 million is 8.6% less than total spending of $3.34 million in 2011. The local churches support the conference budget through the CMF bill.

Through four months of 2012, revenue from church giving to CMF totalled $1,068,831. This was $64,503 or 5.7% less than budget but $79,049 or 7.4% more than April 2011.  The increase over the prior year is due, in part, to the slow start some of our churches experienced in the early part of 2011 with the roll out of the new remittance system.  

By Suzy Keenan*

This is Ruth Daugherty’s eleventh consecutive time to serve as an elected lay delegate to General Conference from Eastern Pennsylvania.

Ruth, 81, of Lancaster, PA, and her late husband, Bob, came out of the EUB tradition.  She first accompanied Bob, a clergy delegate, to the EUB General Conference in 1968. 

In 1972, Ruth became the first elected lay delegate of The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.  The first elected laity was to have served as head of delegation that year. 

By Hannah Adair Bonner*

I finally have become one of those people - the ones who walk into fountains or stumble down stairs because they are texting and tweeting too much. 

Bob Simcox (left) and Debra DePrinzio (right), both active in conference disaster response, were honored by the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management at a ceremony at the Fairmount Water Works in Philadehia on Wednesday, April 25.

The Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management recognized the efforts of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (SEPA VOAD) during a ceremony for Volunteer Week 2012 in Philadelphia.