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ANNUAL REPORT
B TA LE OF CO NT Students ................................... 5 Children .................................... 6 Worship .................................... 7
Discipleship & Membership ..... 8 Congregational Life ................. 9
Deacons/Prayer ...................... 10 GO Local ................................ 11 GO Global .............................. 12
Communications .................... 13
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Finance & Administration .... 3, 4
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Letter from the Pastor ............. 2
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This is our annual report. It’s a report of numbers. But numbers are really a matter of the heart. Behind the numbers and any change in numbers are hearts; hearts of people who give and those who don’t. Hearts of those who serve and those who don’t. Hearts of members who attend church and hearts of those who do not regard it as important. Some of the numbers are encouraging, some we want to work on changing, but behind any number change must come a change of heart. I am only one man, so I alone will not be able to move the numbers. But I pastor a church of nearly 1,600. 1,600 people can change a city and certainly the numbers in a church. What if in our hearts we decided to give sacrificially? What if we set our hearts on reaching people for Jesus and sharing the good news of the gospel and the good things that are happening at Eastminster? What if we participated in a discipleship track like Sunday school or small groups? What if we served the church in some small way like greeting or teaching our kids? What if we prayed and set our hearts on living and loving like Jesus?
Our numbers would change drastically! Here’s the irony about an annual report. It’s usually about numbers, but numbers don’t change lives. God does, people do, hearts devoted to the things of Jesus do. I’m not looking for a change in numbers in our church so much as a change in heart; hearts more transformed and more committed to Jesus. If we address the heart, the numbers will be there. If we don’t, the numbers won’t matter. Pastor Stan
FINANCE & Long-Term Debt
$1,600,000 $1,400,000 $1,200,000 $1,000,000 $800,000 $600,000 $400,000 $200,000 $0 June 30, 2014 $1,499,152
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June 30, 2015 $498,812
June 30, 2016 $107,000
June 30, 2017 $0
Operating Budget Revenues and Expenditures Total Revenues: $3,767,963 Net Excess (used to build cash reserves) $72,396 Governance Debt Reduction $67,335 $107,000 Missions $884,599
Personnel $1,806,988 Office Equipment & Insurance $110,983 A/V, IT & Facilities $431,985 Ministry Programs $286,677
Special Offerings & Special Projects (in addition to operating budget) $198,396 Children’s Playground $21,052
Macedonia Church Plant $15,045
Westminster Woods Christmas Offering $30,596 Thanksgiving & Christmas Food Boxes $10,933
Refugee Relief $25,394 Supported Missionaries Extra Gifts $38,402 EPC World Outreach (Refugee Training) $44,974
Makobe Children’s Home $12,000
ADMINISTRATION 4
STUDENTS 108 + 137
middle school + high school students at summer retreats
78 + 84
middle school + high school students at winter retreats
77 + 98
middle school + high school students at fall retreats
75
students at youth group weekly
50
students at Sunday school weekly
34
students on mission trips
31
Confirmation graduates
26
seniors at senior banquet
8
high school d-groups
4
summer interns
10
different schools represented
5
CHILDREN 130
Sunday morning attendance
40
Wednesday night attendance
92
fall/spring Kid’s Day Out enrollment
122
summer Kid’s Day Out enrollment
4,000
Trunk or Treat attendance
160
Trunk or Treat volunteers
40
trunks at Trunk or Treat
6
873
average weekly attendance
18 (8 children + 10 adults) baptisms
11
weddings at Eastminster
2,399
Christmas Eve attendance
86 + 557
Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday & Good Friday
1,844
Easter attendance
668
Independence Celebration attendance
820
Chili Christmas attendance
963
GO Sunday attendance
1,338 + 452
Christmas Music Sunday + Monday
7
WORSHIP
Discipleship & MEMBERSHIP 240
Sunday morning class attendance
100
Wednesday night class attendance
75
weekday class attendance
150
women in circles per semester
73
new members
234
first-time guests
1,592
total members
728
Ligonier conference attendance
100
Understanding & Answering Atheism simulcast
96
Daddy-Daughter dance attendance
8
congregational
life
120
Equipping Night dinner attendance
27
Equipping Night volunteers
75
women’s Christmas tea attendance
30
gallons of chili served at Chili Christmas
800
people served at Chili Christmas
26
volunteers at Chili Christmas
36
Independence Day celebration volunteers
9
Deacons & prayer 350
hospital visits
270
homebound visits
100
frozen meals packaged & delivered
36
funeral services served •••
20
hours per week spent praying through House of Prayer
200
individuals receive daily prayer list
1,009
Connect Card requests prayed over
10
GO local
315 (185 Thanksgiving + 130 Christmas) food boxes delivered to area families in need
7
volunteers doing English language tutoring
5
Congolese girls receiving weekly English tutoring and cultural assimilation
6
Eastminster high school students assisting with children’s Sunday school at The Oaks Baptist Fellowship
4
volunteers offering regular transportation assistance to Congolese immigrants
4
international student outreach partners
2
pro-life ministry partners
2
anti-human trafficking partners
1
urban church planting and church leaders training partner (Iasis)
$30,600
donated to Westminster Woods from Eastminster people through the Christmas offering
35
local mission partners
$288,643
GO Local budget 11
37
global mission partners
$595,956
GO Global budget
6
GO Global Regions
24
supported mission partners visited Eastminster from
9 nations
59
Eastminster members were commissioned to GO globally on short-term trips
18
short-term mission scholarships assisted those GOing to serve in
16 countries
72,144
meals packed for famine relief through the 2016 Hunger Challenge
926
shoeboxes donated for Operation Christmas Child
90
attended Perspectives class hosted by Eastminster - the largest class ever held in Wichita
15 million
23 years of translation
Kurdish-Sorani speakers now have the full Bible in their language after work. This began in 1994 with Eastminster’s support and continued assistance
$54,000
generously donated to global refugee work supporting: • Bread for Life Project to provide bread and jobs in Iraqi refugee camps • Mosul, Iraq field hospital support to Samaritan’s Purse • Syrian aid through Christian Aid Mission, an EPC partner • Hurricane relief in Haiti through Mission Aviation Fellowship
go global 12
COMMUNICATIONS 12,687
average weekly facebook reach
1,249
facebook likes
1,681
e-newsletter distribution list
98
average weekly live stream views
13
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