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The Board of Trustees was able to tell the delegation that in the past biennium, income to the Conference equalled expenses. For the first time in a long while, there was no shortfall. Although the Conference began the biennium with a deficit of $49,483, it ended the period with a surplus of $10,100. Grants from Mennonite Brethren Foundation of the US Conference and Stewardship Ministries of the Canadian Conference were used to eliminate the previous deficit.
Jon Wiebe, president of MB Foundation, described himself as "the banker for the Conference". Alf Huebert, director of Canadian Conference Stewardship Ministries, said that the resources God has given are the raw materials which become building stones in Conference ministries; the responsibility of Stewardship Ministries is to help put these resources to work in the Kingdom of God.
The budget for the coming biennium is a status quo budget. It raised little discussion and passed easily. SBB
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