Weymouth Baptist Church
Trustees Annual Report 2020
This has obviously been a very different year in the life of the church which has presented many challenges and opportunities to spread the gospel in new ways. Our normal Sunday worship stopped suddenly in March but the wonders of technology and the expertise of our own members combined to “get the show on the screen” so to speak. Not only did our services reach our own members who could access YouTube, but also many other people spread across the world who made contact with us. Many people within the fellowship rose to the occasion to produce innovative services and the preaching of God’s word was as relevant as ever bringing practical application of the bible to everyday life.
The series of sermons from the book of James which all had titles starting with the words, “How to”, were a wonderful example of this. How to…. make your mind up, defeat temptation, be blessed by the Bible, treat people right, manage your mouth, avoid arguments, face our future - to name but seven. They, and more, are all available on the church website. In the autumn we moved on to another series entitled “David – a man after God’s own heart”, based on 1 Samuel chapters 16 through 25 which, again, spoke into the lives of all who tuned in.
Similarly the youth and children’s work continued on-line thanks to the dedication and talents of our staff and volunteer members and we are grateful to all of them for taking the opportunity to communicate in different ways. One encouragement was that our Girls’ Brigade showed a growth in numbers as staff regularly visited the homes of the girls and developed better relationships with the families involved which resulted in more girls joining.
On a practical level the huge undertaking of replacing the wall ties in one of the main walls of the building was started and we survived financially thanks to the faithful provision of God.
The practical mission of our members in other spheres of service continued apace. The Foodbank expanded during the year to operate from more sites and reach more people. CAP continued using the phone rather than face-to-face visits and a new venture, The Nest, driven by six of our own members created a community shop for Weymouth providing cheap, good quality, nutritious food for people on low incomes.
As we look to 2021 we continue to trust that the Lord will meet our needs, both personally and as a fellowship, despite the difficulties of living with the pandemic.
Weymouth Baptist Church Income & Expenditure 2020
INCOME
| Offerings | 100539.91 | |
|---|---|---|
| Gift Aid | 23729.54 | |
| Room Hire | 300.00 | |
| Interest | 79.85 | |
| Busy Lizzies | 47.68 | |
| Gift from Foodbank | 4500.00 | |
| Give as you live | 145.00 | |
| For Fellowhip Fund | 60.00 | |
| Refund from Moorlands | 200.00 | |
| From Sutton Poyntz Evangelical | ||
| Church | 2675.00 | |
| Photocopying | 17.09 | |
| To WBC from JLN Fund | 4369.50 | |
| Photocoying | 14.45 | |
| For Kid's Club meals | 249.00 | 136927.02 |
| Salaries Pastors 57348.00 Sue Sparks 9451.04 PAIS 2299.98 Jayne Newton 5866.66 Christine Smith 3984.00 Superannuation - PMM 7744.56 Superannuation - Timo 1453.80 Superannuation - SS 533.85 Superannuation - JLN 240.00 National Insurance 1347.80 Pastoral Expenses PMM Car & parking 313.10 Telephone 276.43 Timo Travel & Zoom 589.12 Jayne Housing allowance 1712.00 Phone 157.50 Travel & Zoom 223.11 Laptop 689.96 DBS 40.00 Pastoral visiting 42.30 Phone & sundries 163.88 Lifegroup & worship materials 57.00 Church Expenses Gas 2945.77 Electricity 2040.00 Water Rate 89.86 Insurance 4934.56 Phone & internet 522.40 Pulpit Supply 80.00 Manse Expenses Council Tax 2675.73 Water 1045.55 Gas & Electricity 1080.00 |
EXPENDITURE Mission BMS World Mission 3500.00 Baptist Home Mission 2500.00 CAP 1000.00 Sally Hunt 1000.00 Bringing Good News 300.00 Jayne Newton 800.00 Africa Inland Mission - car 500.00 AIM - Zeka and Nita - general support 480.00 Dominion School Gachie Kenya 850.00 Eagles Wings 240.00 90269.69 Ben Lucas 1000.00 Ydson Beloni 550.00 Street Pastors 320.00 Marina Moyses 1000.00 The Nest 350.00 Weymouth Prison Fellowship 130.00 14520.00 Fabric - General Gas safety check 90.00 Chubb Fire extinguishers 526.95 Roof repairs 876.80 Skylight repair 790.00 Boiler service & leak repair 485.71 Quinquennial survey 1440.00 Gable end wall survey & repair 2970.60 Church carpet cleaning 69.77 PAT testing 405.47 Legionella work 228.00 4264.40 Water heater installation 911.28 Heater repairs 150.00 Hot water repair 54.00 Toilet repair 57.00 Key cabinet & locks 64.43 Dorset Fire & Sec, m't'nce & check 174.00 Emergency lighting repairs 102.94 Manse radiator repair 60.00 10612.59 Manse carpet 701.60 Pedal bins 55.26 Cleaning materials 551.74 10765.55 4801.28 |
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Subscriptions
| Subscriptions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Evangelism | Evangelical Alliance | 150.00 | |||
| Drive through carols | 500.00 | Baptist Union | 615.70 | ||
| 500.00 | Refresh | 150.00 | |||
| Easy worship | 150.00 | 1065.70 | |||
| Training | Refreshments | ||||
| Youth Leaders' Conference | 119.00 | Coffee, Tea etc | 73.08 | ||
| 119.00 | Squash | 19.10 | |||
| Printing | Kitchen expenses | 54.40 | |||
| Photocopyer | 988.22 | Disposable cutlery, crockery & cups | 140.53 | ||
| Paper | 111.60 | 287.11 | |||
| Balance sheets | 8.00 | ||||
| 1107.82 | Music | ||||
| CCLI - Licences | 1166.77 |
1166.77 | |||
| Young People | |||||
| Youth Conference | 238.00 | ||||
| GB support | 500.00 | Sundries | |||
| Youth phone | 23.10 | Parking permits | 80.00 | ||
| Youthwork magazine | 94.91 | Bank Charges | 60.00 | ||
| Resources & craft | 36.97 | Offertory envelopes | 36.91 | ||
| Student gifts & support | 103.48 | Candles | 54.42 | ||
| Student Christmas Party | 95.36 | Study materials | 33.48 | ||
| Sports equipment | 33.28 | Prayer team lanyards | 59.58 | ||
| Half-term packs | 68.44 | Domain registration | 16.80 | ||
| Cell food | 49.27 | New website - Church123 | 249.00 | ||
| Sanctuary | 54.95 | TV Licence | 157.50 | ||
| Friday Sanctuary | 24.78 | Gifts to Ted and Joanna | 150.00 | ||
| Stationery | 75.31 | Printer ink | 151.96 | ||
| Christmas packs | 272.28 | Stationery | 41.40 | ||
| Energize - teaching materials | 252.00 | Leaders' away day - Convent | 30.00 | ||
| Teaching r’ces - Friends & Heroes | 204.00 | GB Camp fee refund | 30.00 | ||
| Hardware | 17.73 | Picrights for copyright | 350.00 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 105.76 | Information Commissioner Office | 35.00 | ||
| Camera package | 149.50 | Postage | 360.27 | ||
| Fellowship Fund | 700.00 | ||||
| Treasures | 2596.32 | ||||
| Farmer Palmer's deposit | 50.00 | ||||
| Food | 135.46 | AV/Computer/Equipment | |||
| Miscellaneous | 32.47 | Hardware | 27.96 | ||
| AV cable & PAT accessories | 19.95 | ||||
| Creche | 118.35 | Camera package | 149.50 | ||
| Drum screen | 339.01 | ||||
| Kid's Club | Internet extension | 12.55 | |||
| Kid's Club food | 343.36 | Memory | 23.12 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 97.11 | 572.09 | |||
| 3175.87 | 114850.65 | ||||
| TOTAL | 145824.19 |
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