2010 State of the Church: Giving


  Bishop Benjamin Boni joins hands with the Rev. Cynthia Harvey, now executive director of the United Methodist Committee of Relief, during worship following a week-long distribution of insecticide-treated, malaria-fighting mosquito nets in Côte d'Ivoire.  United Methodists from the Côte d'Ivoire and Texas conferences partnered with the United Nations Foundation, the Ivoirian Ministry of Health and other organizations to distribute some 855,000 bed nets to the families of children ages 9 months to 59 months.
UMNS Photo by Mike DuBose.


Local churches in the U.S. reported more than $6.5 billion in contributions in 2008 and nearly $6.3 billion in expenses.

 Percentage Paid on Apportionments to All General Funds, 1985-2008

 

Categories of Expenditure in the Local Church, 1978-2008

Additional Data on Local Church Expenditures (provided by GBOPHB)

Total Local Church Expenditures

Clergy Benefits

Various Expenditures