PARISH VOICES

One of the funny things about writing a retrospective is stepping back into my memories to think about what’s been going on over the past few months. This quarter’s Treasurer Update includes Pascha! Here it is early August and I can hardly believe that Pascha was less than four months ago…it feels more like a year! But to settle down to the numbers. On the giving side...

It seems like 2026 has hardly begun, but is also already half over! So it must be time to take a look at our first quarter budget. With everything that is going on with the building, it can feel like we barely use the same door two weeks in a row and the walls are in different places every time we set foot inside the church. But there's still the routine cycle of managing our expenses and contributions to make sure that we're keeping the lights on and setting aside what we ne

Happy 2026 everyone! Now that we’re a few weeks into the new year, let’s take a moment to see how our 2025 finances wrapped up. The big headline is that we had a strong December for giving, and because of this finished out 2025 a little over 10% ahead of our fundraising goal for the year. Expenses continued to fall back into line after the rough start to the year. Here are a few details: Some remodeling-related bills impacted our Q4 parish operational budget. These were thin