Church of Hope UPC
2024 - 2025 Annual Business Meeting
Minutes from 14 September 2025
)pened the meeting in prayer at 1:29 pm,
Some opening remarks were Iiiade.
T￿[h￿ni1{￿teS fFom• l&st year s nieeEing.
Inade a motion to 2ccept the minutes as read.
Seconded by
Tlie Inotion was carried.
ri¢fly suinmarized tlie 2024-2025 Financial repori (Appendix l), of whicli everyone had
received 2 COPY.
made 2 motion to accept the report as read.
Seconded by:
asked why the Gift Aid amount was similar to last year ifgiving had increased.
will look into tliis 211d return with aIi answer.
ave an update on the pro(Tress towards a building and on the process to become a SCIO.
spoke about SERVE commitments for the leadership aiid those who are involved in aspects
of the church, as 2 Part of Ihe Struciure for Growih plan.
6. No otlier busiiiess was raised.
made 2 motion to 2djoLifii 211d the meeting was dismissed at 1:54 pm.
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## **Church of Hope UPC** 

## **2024 - 2025 Financial Report** 

Presented in AGM, 14 September 2025 

||**2024-2025**|**2024-2025**||_2023-2024_|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Opening Balance**||**78 610.58**||67 218.37|
||||||
|**Income**|**Tithes**|**35 051.97**||24 248.51|
||**Gift Aid**|**7 679.33**||7 270.35|
||**General Offerings**|**1 583.07**||1 787.16|
||**Compassion Offerings**|**330.00**||1 461.00|
||**Missions Offerings**|**330.00**||2 260.00|
||**Sunday School Offerings**|**317.06**||303.85|
||**Dunfermline Offerings**|||87.68|
||**Ladies Offerings**|**91.10**||229.10|
||**Youth Offerings**|**220.00**||390.00|
||**Bank Interest**|**1 160.17**||936.98|
||**Amazon Smile Donation**|||22.04|
||**Vehicle Fundraiser**|**420.00**||75.00|
||||||
||**Total Income**|**47 182.70**||39 071.67|
||||||
|**Expenditures**|**Building Rent**|**15 504.34**||14 900.00|
||**Dunfermline Hall Hire**|**130.00**||720.00|
||**Sunday School Supplies**|**311.27**||212.23|
||**Compassion Projects**|**415.00**||1 741.39|
||**Holiday Gifts/Special Events**|**183.97**||597.62|





||**Utilities/Insurance**|**1 651.58**||1 901.33|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Miscellaneous**|**616.36**||242.44|
||**District**|**1 239.22**||363.14|
||**Missions Giving**|**975.00**||2 275.00|
||**National Ladies**|**100.00**||160.00|
||**Youth Expenses**|**206.20**||914.80|
||**General Conference Pledge**|**500.00**||500.00|
||**Conference Expenses**|**594.44**||692.32|
||**Ministerial Tithes**|**1 200.00**||1 100.00|
||**Honorariums/Speaker**<br>**Expenses**|**820.35**||1 359.19|
||||||
||**Total Expenditures**|**24 447.73**||27 679.46|
||||||
|**Surplus**|**Income - Expenditures**|**22 734.97**||11 392.21|
||||||
|**Closing Balance**||**101 345.55**||78 610.58|



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**Department Balances as of April 1, 2025** 

|Sunday School:<br>404.91|Sunday School:<br>404.91|
|---|---|
|Missions:<br>275.31||
|Ladies:<br>60.20||
|Youth:<br>20.40||
|Building Fund:|8 065.00|
|Vehicle Fund:<br>495.00||