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Per Capita Offering and Basic Mission Support

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Per Capita supports the essential operating expenses of the governing bodies, meeting expenses, costs of the Stated Clerks and Treasurers work.

The 2011 Per Capita costs:

Central Florida Presbytery's share of the per capita budget is used for the following:
The work of the Presbytery Office, including communicating with the churches;
Treasury operations, Presbytery Stated Clerks operations;
Council and team meeting expenses;
Presbytery meeting expenses;
Any legal or property expenses.

Synod of South Atlantics share of the per capita budget is used for the following:
Fulfilling the constitutional and administrative responsibilities assigned to the synod in the Book of Order;

Facilitating conversation between the governing bodies of the church; Meetings of the Synod and its council;

Stated Clerks and Treasurers expenses and any legal expenses.

General Assembly's share of the per capita budget is used for the following:
Cost of holding General Assembly meetings;

Expenses of the permanent and special committees of the General Assembly and the Office of the General Assembly (including the historical function and the office of ordination exams);

Expenses of General Assembly Council meetings, the council office and some staff, and some expenses of our memberships in ecumenical bodies.

Basic Mission Support pays for all program expenses, including: Reaching out to the world in mission, new church development, church transformation, and developing leaders for the church of today and tomorrow;

Supporting the ministry of our churches with resources, programs and staff to provide communication, consultation and pastoral care.

In the Synod of South Atlantic, it provided for:
New Church Development grants;
Support for Racial Ethnic Ministries;
Support for institutions in covenant relationship with the synod.

For further information, please visit the PCUSA Per Capita website:
www.pcusa.org/percapita/index.htm
To download a brochure about Per Capita from the Office of the General Assembly, click here.

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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with denominational offices in Louisville, Kentucky, has approximately 2.3 million members, more than 10,000 congregations and 14,000 ordained and active ministers.

Presbyterians trace their history to the 16th century and the Protestant Reformation. Our heritage, and much of what we believe, began with John Calvin (1509-1564), whose writings crystallized much of the Reformed thinking that came before him.

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