Worried about making ends meet? Some things to think about:
Sometimes problems get smaller when you define them properly. The trick is to break them down to their constituent parts.
- How much money is your parish short: annual income vs. annual spending?
- Divide it by the number of weeks in a year.
- Divide what you are left with by the number of your parishioners.
This is bound to give a much smaller figure than you started with.
This should make you feel a bit better.
On average Church in Wales churchgoers are not giving so much that they cannot afford to give a little more.
In 2006 average weekly giving per Sunday attender was £6.86. This is just 2.4% of the average Welsh gross income of £286.14
In other words, we are spending 97.6% of our incomes on other things. This should make you feel a bit better too.
Experience has shown that Church in Wales churchgoers give a little more... and a little more again... when they are asked for it but not when they are not asked.
All of which should make you feel much better.
Now, the choice is yours, you can either: