Amendment to raise the budget halfway through quadrennium passes. I voted against and don’t believe it is a good idea. #umcgc

Amendment to raise base rate only if collection rate hits 90% passes! Good amendment. #umcgc

Vote to substitute minority report for budget passes #umcgc

The budget debate demonstrated something surprising and refreshing. Good faith people with differing perspectives actually reached something of a compromised. And everyone likes each other after. Hopeful. #umcgc

It begins! So are we still using X #umcgc ? I’ll be here tweeting so I hope so!

“We cannot change events, but we can change the meaning we give to events” #umcgc Opening worship with ecumenical leaders.

Regionalization petition passes! #umcgc

After a delay from the fire marshall, opening worship of #umcgc is underway!

The contours of the proposed budget for #umc for the next four years #umc gc

Quote of the day at #umcgc from presiding bishop “this all gets very confusing”

📸: Matt Miofsky

More on how to get the #umc to financial sustainability. #UMCGC

Petition asking for the speaker pool to be publicly shown fails. #umcgc

We just voted to extend the session until 6:45pm to finish business. Bishop Schol doing his best to move us along. #umcgc

FA just passed an amendment to raise the apportionment base rate effectively raising the general church budget $40.6 million dollars. I was against it and don’t think this arbitrary raising of the budget is a good idea. #umcgc

Day 2 of General Conference. Opening worship, Bishop Laura Merrill presiding and Bishop Holston giving the episcopal address. Also, the volume is working. #UMCGC

And just a reminder, if a seemingly small raise in your local church apportionment payment is “no big deal” you can always give more than what’s required to help keep connectional ministries funded!
#UMCGC

Amended budget passes. We got there! For those following at home, we basically passed the GCFA and connectional table budget (base rate for apportionments) with the amendment that if our collection rate hits 90% we will increase budget last two years #umcgc

Currently debating the apportionment base rate for #UMCGC which essentially is “the budget”. We are debating between a lower base rate proposed by gcfa & a higher base rate amended by Financial Comm here. The difference is $40.6 million dollars that would come from local church