Financial Information (2008)
It is important to the leadership of RLM that we provide you information in three important areas of our finances. RLM acknowledges that God will provide the funding for the work we are called to do, through the gifts, tithes and offerings of the church body. We are accountable to God for how we steward the resources He has provided, and we are committed to bringing glory to our Father in how we use the sacrificial gifts from our church body.We seek to honor Jesus by devoting the overwhelming majority of funds directly to the ministries and mission to which God has called us. We are excited to announce that RLM was approved by and gained membership with ECFA on December 8th 2008.
Our budget process…
Every RLM ministry prays through and submits a planning budget. The budgets are reviewed by the Team Leadership overseeing the particular ministry and eventually all budgets are rolled into one church budget which is presented to the Executive Team for review. The reviewed budget is submitted to the Finance Committee, and eventually placed before the Eldership for final approval.
Who we are accountable to…
During the fiscal year, accountability to the budget is maintained through financial reporting to individual ministries, team leaders, executive leadership and our Eldership. Monthly Budget to Actual, Cash flow and Balance Sheet information is submitted and reviewed by the Finance Committee.
What God is doing with the finances of our church…
Our annual financial reporting is reviewed by our Eldership; an independent auditor (Wayne Vinson, CPA); and the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Our audited financial statements are posted on the ECFA website (see RLM's profile here). If you wish to discuss this report further, please email John Helwich at jhelwich@reallifeministries.com.
| Event Outreach | ||
| Community Day | 2,248 | |
| Egg Hunt | 4,250 | |
| Harvest Festival | 6,750 | |
| Presence (Lifers serving) | 2,200 | |
| 3,500 Lunches | ||
| 2,000 tins of cookies | ||
| Small Groups | ||
| Home Groups (adult attendees) | 2,760 | |
| Women's | 152 | |
| Young Adults | 50 | |
| High School | 2,85 | |
| Middle School | 3,61 | |
| Breakout | 111 | |
| Men's | 275 | |
| Recovery Groups | 525 | |
| Other | 376 | |
| Kids Quest | 92 | |
| Total People | 4,987 | |
| Church Plant Attendance | Jan-08 | Jan-09 |
| Spokane Valley | 800 | 1,300 |
| Newport | 100 | 139 |
| Moscow | 320 | 550 |
| Silver Valley | 164 | 323 |
| Boise (Oct '08) | 30 | 90 |
| Total People | 1,414 | 2,402 |
| Association | ||
| Churches Trained in 2008 | 92 | |
| Recovery | ||
| Recovery Weekly Attendance | 500 | |
| Benevolence | ||
| Families Helped | 5,736 | |
| Food Boxes | 17,000 | |
| Baptisms 2008 | 737 | |
| 101 Covenants 2008 | 528 | |
| # of new Home Groups | 67 | |