Embracing a Season of Fruitfulness at the Summit
Attendees of the quadrennial Leadership Summit close worship in prayer before beginning workshops. This year, the summit was held at Vancouver: First UMC.
The Leadership...
Update: Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave
Washington will soon be the fifth state in the nation to offer paid family and medical leave benefits to workers. Because of this, changes will be required to how businesses, including churches, track employees hours in the new year.
Twenty-Seven Annual Conferences Give 100% of Their 2016 General Church Apportionments
Nashville, TN – The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA), working with the 56 annual conferences in the United States, reports that twenty-seven...
The 40-Year Run
The 40-Year Run
By Jesse N. Love with Bruce Galvin
The road for Bruce Galvin, assistant treasurer, has been a long one. Galvin has served at...
The apportionments are coming! The apportionments are coming!
By Rik Jamieson | Assistant PNW Conference Treasurer
Be on the lookout for the Shared Ministry Apportionment Notice for your 2017 budget planning. Forward the apportionment sheet...
GCFA Reports on UMData.org, 2014 Church Statistics, New Treasurers Training Event and Virtual Appointment...
Nashville, TN – The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) is announcing that general statistical information about the church, formerly contained in the printed General...
Changes to Clergy Moving Expenses
Bruce Galvin, Pensions and Health Benefits Officer for the PNW Conference, has some important information for clergy (and churches) experiencing a pastoral transition in 2018. The recently passed 'Tax Cuts and Jobs Act' brings bad news, a repeal of the tax exclusion for moving expenses clergy have long enjoyed.
Stop the Presses!! – New Overtime Laws are on hold! #FLSA
By Rik Jamieson | Assistant PNW Conference Treasurer
Just before Thanksgiving a federal court in Texas granted a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of proposed changes to...
EXTRA! EXTRA! – Read all about it! New Federal Laws to Impact Overtime Pay
By Rik Jamieson | Assistant PNW Conference Treasurer
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) “white collar” overtime...
The United Methodist Church Giving App Rebranded and Now Available for Android and iOS...
Nashville, TN – The General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA), working in partnership with Vanco Payment Solutions has developed and improved the convenient...


















