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.
Rebuilding Lives & Communities: Helping Agencies bulletin insert
Rebuilding Lives & Communities: Medical Agencies bulletin insert
Rebuilding Lives & Communities: Disaster Response bulletin insert
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:
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.
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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.
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.