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The Trustees used their podium time primarily to point out the General Conference boards ended the last biennium with an operating deficit of $69,276. These figures do not include the operations of MB Missions/Services and MB Biblical Seminary, which manage separate budgets.
Churches in Canada contributed 78.4 percent of their budgeted income, while US churches contributed 81.3 percent.
The delegates accepted the Trustees' report without discussion.
For the coming year, the boards of the General Conference proposed a two-year budget of $633,979, a reduction of just over 10 percent from the previous biennium.
MB Missions/Services is projecting a two-year budget of $13,467,912 identical to the past biennium. MB Biblical Seminary's budget for the coming biennium will increase by 11.7 percent to $5,391,947.
In other matters, delegates approved a recommendation to reduce the size of the Board of Trustees from nine members to five members. Since more of the financial work is done at the national level, the workload of the General Conference board has been reduced.
Don Ratzlaff
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