Tuesday, December 26, 2006

$5 million

If New Hope was to receive a New Year's gift of five million dollars how would you want the church to spend it? Would you spend the whole amount in one area or would you divide it up into smaller pieces? I could give you some ideas but I will leave it very general at the moment.

3 comments:

David Wheeler said...

1. $1,000,000 advertising budget
2. $1,000,000 to ADRA
3. $250,000 local community needs
4. $2,000,000 new church fund
5. $750,000 NH ministry needs

Akhenaton said...

You said "if New Hope was to receive a gift..."
Umm...are we receiving a gift of $5m?
Here's how I'd spend $5m

1. $250,000 Advertising
2. $2,700,000 Family Ministries and Youth Center- Gym, Basketball/ Tennis Courts, Cafe, Computer room, Library, Playground, etc.
3. $550,000 Mission- Local and international
4. $400,000 Sanctuary Rennovation
5. $50,000 Media Ministries
6. $50,000 Leadership Training/ Seminars, etc
7. $300,000 Outreach- Ehanced Shuttle Ministry- College/Neighborhood Pickup (New Hope is relatively close to University of Maryland, etc)
8. $150,000 Facility upkeep/ maintenance
9. $100,000 Savings
10. $450,000 Other NH Ministry Needs

lol...I hope this adds up.

JDavidNewman said...

1. $1.9 million to pay off the current church debt
2. $2 million to set up a foundation the profits of which to be used for missions.
3. $100,000 for mission work in our immediate area
4. $1 million to go toward our future sanctuary