Finance
FINANCIAL COMMITMENT CARD – 2025
I covenant with God to financially support my church and its ministries through the giving of my first fruits to:
_____ Commit to $ ______ per (circle one) weekly/ monthly/ annually for the ministries and missions and administrative (general budget code 200)
_____Commit to $ ______ per (circle one) weekly/ monthly/ annually for the $2 Buck campaign (connectional apportionments)
_____Commit to $______ per (circle one) weekly/ monthly/ annually for designated offering (insert code from reverse side) ____________
TOTAL Commit to $ ______ per (circle one) weekly/ monthly/ annually
I/We will provide this either through the worship offering, a mailed envelope to the church, or through Tithely.com online giving
Sign Name ____________________________________________ Envelope # ___________
Please turn over for the Codes to designated offerings
Contribution Key Codes for Designated Offerings - Write In
200 General Fund
701 Utilities
500 Connectional Apportionment
80 Memorial
361 Food Bank
45 PDF
226 Communion
232 Thanksgiving
324 Contemporary Service Dinner/CommDinner
217 Easter
211 Palm Sunday
212 Maunday Thursday
213 Good Friday
216 Lent
40 Youth
13 VBS
Existing Ministries at FUMC
Presently, 47 Ministries exist within the body of FUMC. Prayerfully consider where you fit in. If you are not familiar with these ministries, reach out to the contact person to learn more about the ministry. If a ministry you are interested in is not listed here, reach out to our Pastors to help you establish a ministry to use your times and talents in the way God is calling you to do.
Administrative committees such as finance, trustees, staff parish, council
Altar Flowers
Blessing Box
Contemporary Service Dinner
Adult Chancel Choir
Adult Cathedral Bells
Adult Sunday School classes
Camporship
Caring Closet
Children’s ministry
Community Dinner
Communication through Facebook, the outside sign, the Newsletter, our website.
Communion Stewards
Congregation Care Team
Cub Scouts
Dance Ministry
Decorating the sanctuary
Drama Ministry
Emergency Food boxes for those in need
Food Bank
Funeral dinners
Greeters
Girl Scouts
Irwin Senior Center
Living Last Supper
Media/Technology Team
Nurture Outreach Witness
Prayer Shawl
Prayer team
Quilting Ministry
Red Cross Blood Bank
Salvation Army
Scrapbooking
Sonshiners Choir – elementary age
Sunday School
Temple Bells - Youth
Temple Chimes – Elementary age
UM Women
Ushers
Visitation Team
Wendell’s Vision – construction team
Worship – Contemporary on Saturday evening with dinner and Traditional on Sunday morning
Youth Ministry
Youth Sunday School classes
Vacation Bible School
Finance Committee Ways Of Giving
GIVING TO OUR CHURCH THROUGH UNITED WAY! Many of you are already contributing to United Way from your paycheck. You can give that portion to First UM of Irwin! The campaigns for United Way are usually held in September at your place of employment. Please tell them that you would like your portion of giving to go to your church! You will need our church code to do this donation online.
If you work in Westmoreland County the church code is: 416719.
If you work in Allegheny County the church code is: 11850302.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
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DO YOU LIKE TO PAY YOUR BILLS ONLINE? If so, you can designate First United Methodist Church as a bill payee. The address is 310 Oak Street, Irwin, PA. 15642. You can elect the amount you would like the church to receive and the number of times to “pay” the church. Use your envelope number as the requested account number. The bank will then send a check to the church. The office will process the check the same as we do for Sunday envelopes.
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The General Council on Finance and Administration is proud to be in partnership with Tribute to present UMCmarket.org -- the online portal designed for United Methodists to shop online at a variety of retailers who will donate to your local church or other United Methodist entity, to help you raise funds for ministry.
Visit umcmarket.org, establish your free, online account and support our FUMC ministry by creating donations.
1. Enter your email address
2. Type a nickname for you account
3. Create a password
4. Select a state (PA) and a city (Irwin.) A list of the UM churches and related organizations in the Irwin area will appear.
5. Select “Irwin First United Methodist Church”
6. Click “Signup”
7. At this point you may click on any of the available categories that may interest you or simply click “Skip” to continue.
8. Watch the short video clip which demonstrates how to shop using UMC Market.
9. Shop from among thousands of retailers. Each retailer will show what percentage of your donation will be given to our church. When you are finished shopping follow the procedure each store has to “Checkout” your items and make the necessary payment.
UMC Market will automatically receive notification of your sale and will place the funds in their “FUMC” account. When their “FUMC” account reaches $100.00, UMC Market will send a check for that amount to our church.
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• using an on-line banking service such as http:/tithe.ly With Tithe.ly you can track your giving, be assured that your giving is secured using SSL with 256-bit encryption, and give using all major credit cards. Just download the app on your phone or PC and you can set up your giving. Look for FUMC Irwin after you download the app and the app will help you to set up one time giving, or you can set it up for automatic giving as I did and have it set to give the 1st and 15th of the month. It is easy and safe and allows you to track your giving.
The General Council on Finance and Administration is proud to be in partnership with Tribute to present UMCmarket.org -- the online portal designed for United Methodists to shop online at a variety of retailers who will donate to your local church or other United Methodist entity, to help you raise funds for ministry.
Visit umcmarket.org, establish your free, online account and support our FUMC ministry by creating donations.
10. Enter your email address
11. Type a nickname for you account
12. Create a password
13. Select a state (PA) and a city (Irwin.) A list of the UM churches and related organizations in the Irwin area will appear.
14. Select “Irwin First United Methodist Church”
15. Click “Signup”
16. At this point you may click on any of the available categories that may interest you or simply click “Skip” to continue.
17. Watch the short video clip which demonstrates how to shop using UMC Market.
18. Shop from among thousands of retailers. Each retailer will show what percentage of your donation will be given to our church. When you are finished shopping follow the procedure each store has to “Checkout” your items and make the necessary payment.
UMC Market will automatically receive notification of your sale and will place the funds in their “FUMC” account. When their “FUMC” account reaches $100.00, UMC Market will send a check for that amount to our church.
Finance Committee Responsibilities
The primary task of the Committee on Finance is to propose, raise, manage, and distribute the resources of the congregation to support and strengthen the mission and ministry of the congregation.
Responsibilities
1. To build an annual budget to support the mission and ministry of the congregation and to submit it to the Church Council for approval.
2. To develop and carry out plans to raise enough income to support the budget that has been approved.
3. To carry out instructions about allocations from the Church Council.
4. To guide the work of the Treasurer and the Financial Secretary.
5. To arrange for an annual audit of the records of financial officers and to report to the Charge Conference.
6. To be accountable to the Charge Conference through the Church Council