Apportionment Formula / Budget

Apportionment Formula 

Explanation of Mission & Ministry Share

Where do our apportionment dollars go?

Budget Distribution Percentage Worksheet - This excel spreadsheet tells you exactly how much money each budget item receives from your church's apportionment dollars. Just fill in the yellow boxes with your apportionment amounts. 

Download Mission and Ministry bulletin inserts to copy and use in local-church worship services.

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Rebuilding Lives & Communities: Disaster Response bulletin insert

Conference Budget 

Annual Conference Budget

The Kansas West Annual Conference budget is broken down into funds. These funds represent the hands-on and administrative ministry areas of the conference. 

Conference Benevolence funds the program ministries of the conference and the Connectional Ministries office. These ministries are featured in various places on the conference website. To learn more about any of these ministries, click the link to their location on the website. These ministries include:

• Camping experiences for more than 1,300 children, youth and adults
• Conference Council on Youth Ministry retreats, rallies and leadership development experiences
• United Methodist Resource Center (formerly KansasAreaResourceCenter)
• Campus ministry at the seven state schools
• Hispanic ministry at two mission churches and several fellowships in southwest Kansas
• Volunteers In Mission teams in Kansas and around the world
• Criminal justice and mercy ministries with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals
• Care for un-insured and under-insured individuals at Western Kansas Mexican American Ministries and GraceMed Health Clinic
• Clothing and food ministries at Western Kansas Mexican American Ministries and United Methodist Open Door

General Church Apportionments fund the denomination’s ministry around the globe and the administration that makes that work possible.

The Ministerial Education Fund, which supports United Methodist seminaries, also provides some funding for seminary students in the Kansas West Conference.

Through this area of the budget, the conference also supports the active and retired bishops of the church and work with other denominations to share Christ’s love around the world and to seek understanding between faith traditions.

The GeneralChurch apportionments support AfricaUniversity and the Black College Fund. You can find out more about these funds at the UMC Giving website.

Jurisdictional Apportionments provide funding to jurisdictional ministries and the administration of the jurisdiction. Each of these ministries has its own website. For more information on each, visit the website links below.

•  Lydia Patterson Institute
•  Mount Sequoyah
• Southern Methodist University Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry

Administrative Services supports the conference’s communication efforts in print and on the web, promotion of the mission and ministry of the conference, the annual conference meeting expenses, expenses for the administrative councils and committees and marketing council, and the administrative offices of the conference.

Ministerial Services and Support funds equitable compensation, which ensures pastoral leadership for congregations all across the Kansas West Conference. In addition, this fund provides the salaries and office support for the conference’s six district superintendents and their secretaries.