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WORLD SERVICE
MISSION AND SERVICE TEAM DESIGNATED FUNDS
OKLA. INDIAN MISSIONARY CONFERENCE$120,000
Supplements salaries paid to Native American ministers and helps Native American churches develop programs.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & MERCY MINISTRIES $360,000
CJAMM seeks to provide a holistic ministry to prisoners and aftercare ministries to ex-offenders and their families.
URBAN MINISTRY$186,900
Skyline Urban Ministries in Oklahoma City and Restore Hope in Tulsa are vital to economically impoverished people and those facing financial emergencies.
COOKSON HILLS CENTER $55,000
Cookson Hills Center, a United Methodist mission project in Northeastern Oklahoma is jointly sponsored by Okla. Indian Missionary Conference, The Oklahoma Conference and General Board of Global Ministries.
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION $21,500
NSO provides emergency services for low-income people, including housing for the homeless, education for homeless children, and nutritional services.
VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION$324,000
VIM has helped thousands of local church volunteers minister to low income persons and victims of disasters.
CIRCLE OF CARE $687,750
Oklahoma United Methodist help children, youth, and families through the ministries of the Circle of Care
UNITED METHODIST MANOR TULSA $60,000
This fund helps the Manor cover uncompensated care for residents whose income is no longer sufficient to cover their membership fees.
NURSING HOMES$30,000
This fund--distributed to Okla. Conference nursing homes and retirement facilities helps provide top quality care for residents.
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROGRAMS$69,750
Offers courses in local churches relating to drug and dependency education.
OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES $42,500
The United Methodist Church and 15 other mainline denominations work with and through Okla. Conference of Churches to address major problems faced by people across the state.
RIO GRANDE CONFERENCE $9,700
Supports our ministry with Spanish-speaking Americans in the Southwest
DISCIPLESHIP TEAM DESIGNATED FUNDS
UNITED METHODIST CAMPS$230,500
Fees collected from campers pay for about 90% of the annual budget. Our apportionment helps cover utilities (which exceed $140,000 a year) and other costs. It also helps keep camp fees as low as possible.
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY $975,000
Helps our UM university maintain high academic standards; provides scholarships for clergy and clergy dependents, and supports student religious life activities.
CAMPUS MINISTRY $775,000
Supports UM ministries across Oklahoma. They enable our church to maintain a positive witness for Jesus Christ by providing opportunities for Christian education, fellowship, service, leadership development, guidance counseling and other vital services.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TEAM DESIGNATED FUNDS
BOARD OF ORDAINED MINISTRY $45,000
MINISTERIAL RECRUITMENT $36,000
CONGREGATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DESIGNATED FUNDS
CONGREGATIONAL DEVELOPMENT $204,500
Provides consultations to local churches to help them minister more effectively to their communities, marginalized people, and their congregations. Assists with demographic data for local churches.
RACIAL ETHNIC COORDINATING COMMITTEE $46,200
Helps racial-ethnic local churches in the conference improve facilities; upgrade programs; and meet other essential needs.
HISPANIC MINISTRIES $137,200
DEPT. OF COMMUNICATIONS DESIGNATED FUNDS
COMMUNICATIONS$308,000
Helps cover costs for our conference newspaper; interpretative publications; media relations; communications and public relations workshops; and
consultation to conference agencies, institutions, and local churches.
OTHER GENERAL CHURCH MINISTRIES
MINISTERIAL EDUCATION$539,194
Helps pay operating costs of United Methodist theological schools and program of ministerial recruitment, professional development and continuing education.
BLACK COLLEGE FUND$214,704
Helps ten historically Black colleges and one medical school related to The United Methodist Church.
AFRICA UNIVERSITY $47,413
Provides support for our United Methodist-related university in Africa.
INTERDENOMINATIONAL COOPERATION $42,586
Helps ecumenical agencies through which The United Methodist Church participates cooperatively in God's mission. Examples include National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., World Council of Churches, and Consultation on Church Union.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION$146,046
Funds general church activities that are administrative in nature, rather than program, missional, or ecumenical.
JURISDICTIONAL MINISTRIES
MOUNT SEQUOYAH CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER $16,460
This fund helps maintain and improve our Jurisdictional Assembly Grounds at Fayetteville, Ark., where various instructional and inspirational events are held.
SMU CAMPUS MINISTRY $10,364
Helps support a ministry to students on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
LYDIA PATTERSON INSTITUTE $80,472
Our United Methodist day school at El Paso provides Mexican youth with cross-cultural education and prepares them for college.
JURISDICTIONAL ADMINISTRATION FUND$39,335
Helps pay for administration and ministries of the South-Central Jurisdiction, including cost of Jurisdictional Conference.
CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION MINISTRIES
CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION$986,200
Covers maintenance of our conference ministry center; performance of an annual certified audit; operations of boards of Ordained and Diaconal Ministry; salaries and other operating expenses for Conference Communications and the Treasurer's Office; production of our Conference Journal. AGENCY Emergency/CAPITAL FUND ($70,000) This is our primary source for money to meet emergencies of conference institutions and agencies and to take advantage of opportunities.
MINISTERIAL SUPPORT
PENSION AND BENEFIT FUND$50,000
Helps cover pension funding for service years credited to ministers prior to January 1, 1982, when Ministerial Pension Plan and Comprehensive
Protection Plan began.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS$1,397,000
Provides for salaries, travel and operating expenses.
EPISCOPAL FUND AND HOUSING $445,873
Provides the church with episcopal leadership. Pays salaries, housing, pensions, official travel and office expenses of bishops.
EQUITABLE COMPENSATION FUND$250,000
Supplements salaries of pastors of small congregations so they will receive the established minimum salary of the conference.
HEALTH BENEFITS FUND(CHURCH PORTION) $4,123,000
Covers half the cost of the conference medical and life insurance program for active and retired ministers and their families.
MINISTERS MOVING FUND$150,000
Reimburses ministers for some of their expenses involved in moving to new appointments.
