Synodical Council recap
Filed Under: BHM, Home Missions, Missions, Synod Finances, Synodical Council
As reported in a "Together" breaking news release Monday, April 28, the Synodical Council has approved a request from the Board for Home Missions (BHM) that it be allocated $500,000 of an anticipated $2.2 million surplus in the synod's operating budget for fiscal year 2007-08. The funds are designated for new mission opportunities and will be appropriated when they actually become available at the end of the current fiscal year, June 30.
Rev. Mark Schroeder, WELS president, says he fully supports this decision. "I'm convinced that this is the right thing to do," he says. "The Synodical Council action is one more concrete way in which we are following through on the convention's commitment to expand our mission efforts."
The anticipated $500,000 allocation will be part of the $917,000 BHM has designated for 11 new mission opportunities for fiscal year 2008-09. The opportunities include start-up of four new congregations and support of outreach-oriented early childhood ministries in two others.
In its meeting in Milwaukee April 25-26, the Synodical Council also endorsed the combining of the support staffs of both BHM and the Board for World Missions under a single manager of all mission operations. The move, designed to make operations more streamlined and efficient, becomes effective July 1.
