Because all of us receiving this email have a sacred responsibility to ensure that Church funds are used prudently and are protected from misuse, I felt you might appreciate reading this article and Q&A in the Church’s online newsroom regarding Church finances.
Thank you for being vigilant in this singular responsibility to protect the Lord’s funds.
Next week at Stake Priesthood Leadership we will have a Bishops’ Break-Out session in the High Council room. It will replace our quarterly Bishopric Training meeting so we ask that you come prepared to take notes and train your counselors accordingly in an upcoming Bishopric or Branch Presidency meeting.
If you are unable to attend this leadership meeting, please assign a counselor to attend in your place. I would appreciate knowing in advance, too.
One of the topics will be financing summer camps in 2019.
As you know, we have been holding a pioneer trek for all youth, 12-18 years of age, every six years so all youth get a chance to participate in a trek at least once.
As a consequence, there will be no Stake YW Camp or, we assume, stake or ward high adventures that summer. So the stake will not be subsidizing any summer camps inasmuch as funds will be used to support the Stake Trek. (It is yet to be determined if we will ask each youth to pay the usual summer camp fee of $50 for trek or whether we can do so without any charge; we hope the latter.)
For the past five years, we have been saving funds to finance the trek. So our plan is to share with you at least half, it not more, of the $19,000 we spend each year for summer camp subsidies. Consequently, if your Scout leaders (or other youth leaders) want to attend a BSA camp in the summer of 2019, we ask that you use these extra funds and ward funds, if you choose, to subsidize them.
For any summer camps you choose to support in 2019, funds should be raised by the youth, under the guidance of their parents, with a subsidy from the ward. You will determine the amount of subsidy to come from ward funds and the families should be responsible for the rest. Please do NOT fundraise as per the explanation established and guidelines issued in 2012.
Again, we hope that the trek in 2019 will be an adequate summer camp experience for all youth in our stake, but you can choose to hold or attend other summer camp activities, but they are to be financially supported solely by families and the ward.
We can discuss this further in our break-out session next Tuesday.
Thank you again for your careful oversight of these sacred funds,
President Lewis
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