The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission and Ministry Board held a special meeting by Zoom on the evening of Nov. 24 to approve the 2026 budget for the denominational ministries. The meeting was led by chair Kathy Mack assisted by chair-elect Josiah Ludwick and general secretary David Steele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The board approved a grand total 2026 budget for all denominational ministries of $7,913,780 of income and $7,954,240 of expense, representing an anticipated net expense of $40,460.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For the denomination\u2019s Core Ministries, the board approved a 2026 budget of $5,453,000 of income and $5,453,260 of expense, representing an anticipated net expense of $260.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision includes a reduction of $102,000 in anticipated net expenses in Core Ministries since the board approved a budget parameter of $5,555,000 of expense in October. Treasurer Ed Woolf explained that since October, staff have worked to make additional reductions to lower anticipated expenses for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other factors in creating the budget included congregational and individual giving estimates based on 10-year actual trends; a $150,000 designated funds transfer in support of the Core Ministries; draws from the Brethren Service Center quasi-endowment of 7 percent and from the bequest quasi-endowment of 20 percent and other internal transfers from savings and investment income; no medical insurance premium rate increase for employees; and a 1 percent cost of living increase for employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woolf noted that in 2026, 56 percent of income will come from internal sources such as the quasi-endowments, savings, and investments, as a trend of decreasing giving from congregations is expected to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For detailed information on the 2026 budget go to www.brethren.org\/mmb\/meeting-info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n #MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/p>\n\n\n\n ———-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission and Ministry Board held a special meeting by Zoom on the evening of Nov. 24 to approve the 2026 budget for the denominational ministries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3524,2543,3153,760,1266],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-2026-budget","tag-budget","tag-general-secretarys-office","tag-mission-and-ministry-board","tag-mmb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26179,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions\/26179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}