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Hello,
I am Finance Secretary for First United Methodist Church in Hawkins, TX. I am looking for other PowerChurch users in our area that are approximately our size. We have about 75 active members. I would like to discuss with you how you show money flowing through your church that is not actually operational money such as Altar Rail giving for a specific purpose, etc. If you would give me a call at 903-769-2973, I would appreciate. My hours are 9-12 and 1-3 MTWT.
Thanks you!

hawkinsfumc wrote:Hello,
I am Finance Secretary for First United Methodist Church in Hawkins, TX. I am looking for other PowerChurch users in our area that are approximately our size. We have about 75 active members. I would like to discuss with you how you show money flowing through your church that is not actually operational money such as Altar Rail giving for a specific purpose, etc. If you would give me a call at 903-769-2973, I would appreciate. My hours are 9-12 and 1-3 MTWT.
Thanks you!

If you don't find anyone locally, I can give you some advice.

From what you wrote, I'm guessing you mean money given as a 'pass through' to another organization that is not normally accounted as 'income' for the church, nor used for normal operations and mission giving.

As I said above this is what's known as a pass through, are not really funds that are income to the church. What is done at many churches is to create a liability account in Funds Accounting, and in Contributions create a Pass Through Contributions Account that points at the liability account setup in Funds Accounting, and the normal church checking account.

Now, you can setup one liability account & contribution fund and reuse that each time, however, if you have organizations and/or activities that recur every few months, or once a year, you can create one liability and one contribution fund for each.

Setting it up this way gives the Donor an entry on their contributions statement for deductions, and with the funds listed as a liability it does not show up as Income in the Income/Expense report, but does show as a liability in the cash management report.

Does this help ?