Our 2009 Budget

If you are already a member of City Life Church, you will know how crucial financial giving is to the vision of seeing people in Luton come to faith in Jesus.

Budget at a glance

Team Support	£20,540
External Giving	£4,560
Our Gatherings	£3,850
Offices/Storage	£4,400
Church Activities	£4,300
Infrastructure	£3,260
Other Costs	£1,090
TOTAL	£42,000

Registered users of the website can download a detailed breakdown by clicking here.

As a team we want to thank everyone for their generosity through 2008. Once again we finished the year in the black, even with the ambitious targets for growth we set.

We have a new budget for 2009. In the coming year we will be launching new gatherings, growing into with new offices, reforming our leadership teams and upping our outlay on meeting venues and cell evangelism. In addition we are stepping out on an exciting project to invite every eighteen year old in Luton to do Alpha with us.

All this means that we are projecting to spend £42,000 over the coming year - that’s £3500 each month on the work of the church.

We are believing God to supply the income required to fund this investment. Over the past three years, we have not had a single budgetary period in which our spending has outstripped our income. He has proved himself consistently faithful. The vast majority of this income still comes from members of the church generously giving financially.

In the most simple terms, we are looking for giving from within the church community to rise by just under £800 each month. While much of this will come from new givers, existing members should feel able to contribute to this sum. Reaching this target will not only mean our existing commitments are met, but that we are in the best possible shape for the challenges that lay ahead.

There are a number of opportunities for financial giving in church life: in our monthly Old Shop gathering, where you can give into the church purse; through standing orders that can be altered by amending your mandate online and informing us of the change; and through new orders set up at loveluton.org. If you pay tax, please gift aid your donation. It increases the value of every pound you give by 28%.