Dear Brothers and Sisters,
For those of you who missed the community meeting and would like to see our financial summary, it is as follows:
2021 Financial Review for Church of the Holy Light of the Queen
2021 Income:
Tithes $34,736
Work donations $8,976 (not including $6,426 raised for deck/Brazilian musicians)
Hinario sales profit: $1,423
2021 Total Regular Income: $45,017
2020 Income:
Tithes $38,126
Work Donations $6,753
Hinario sales profit $874
2020 Total Regular Income: $45,753
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Special Projects in 2021
New Deck: Cost $24,881
Contributions raised: $17,858. Cost to CHLQ $7,023
Renovation and Improvements in Yurts and Landscaping Features: Cost $7,213
Creation New CHLQ Website: Cost $1,282
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Additional extra costs for 2021:
Daime Importation: Cost $6,324 in 2021, with cost in 2020 of $1,219.
J & J Travel Fund disbursement $5,533 (was accrued to be spent in 2020, not spent until 2021)
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Profit/loss in 2021: -$21,358 (loss)
Profit/loss in 2020: $17 (profit)
Many of these costs will not be occurring again for a long time. We are very grateful to our community for the generous donations to the deck fund and to our Brazilian guests, as well as other donations to aid people in Brazil. The Church has reserves enough to continue financially without difficulty at this time. However, we definitely need to have increased income in both tithes and donations at works, to be able to maintain financial stability. There will also be more costs for procuring Daime this next year, as we need to maintain our Daime supply.
Please consider increasing your tithe contribution by $10 - $15 more per month. Please give as generously as you can at works. If everyone gave $10 - $20 more per work than they have been giving, it would make a big difference. Thank you!
