2025-2026
🗓 | JUNE 22ND
⏰ | 12:15PM
📍 | BETHANY AUDITORIUM
Join us for our Congregational Budget Meeting! We’ll review and vote on the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, and share key highlights and updates from the past year. Whether you’re a longtime part of Bethany or brand new, a member or just curious, you’re warmly invited to take part. We’d love to see you there! Can’t make it to the meeting and still want to vote? Click below to download the form and vote by proxy!
MESSAGE FROM THE LEAD PASTOR
Each year, we pause to reflect not only on the numbers in our budget, but on the stories behind them—stories of lives changed, relationships deepened, and ministry extended beyond our walls. Behind every line item is someone who has encountered hope, healing, or a sense of belonging because of what we do together as a church.
This season isn’t just about financial planning- it’s about spiritual alignment. It’s about asking, “God, where are you leading us, and how can we be faithful stewards of what you’ve placed in our hands?”
We’ve seen God provide in unexpected ways over the past year through your generosity, through the sacrifice of time and talent, and through belonging and hope. And as we look to the year ahead, our posture remains one of faith and dependence. We want to keep pace with what God is doing, not run ahead or fall behind.
Thank you for your trust. Thank you for your commitment. And thank you for continuing to build our church—not for our name, but for the glory of Christ.
MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR
“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” Psalm 127:1
This verse has been a steady reminder for us this year: everything we do must begin with God. Not just in word, but in practice. As a Board, we’ve worked to make decisions that reflect prayerful dependence and faithful stewardship in addition to sound strategy.
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed God’s provision in meaningful ways. Ministry has moved forward. Lives have been impacted. Needs have been met. And through it all, we’ve seen how God multiplies what we entrust to Him.
Looking ahead to a new ministry year, we continue to walk with hope and humility. We’re preparing wisely, trusting fully, and asking God to lead us as we steward the resources he provides through the generosity of this community.
Thank you for being a part of that generosity. Your giving—especially in a time when so many are stretched—matters deeply. It fuels mission. It builds this house. And most importantly, it honours the God we serve.
BUDGET VALUES
FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
We believe in the importance of financial sustainability, because what that means is ongoing impact and ministry for decades. This budget has been made to ensure that the important, vital, and necessary impact and programs here at Bethany continue for the foreseeable future. In making this year’s budget we have sought to ensure that our program, people, and church community can continue to depend on this being a place where they receive hope, care, and experience the reality of Jesus.
POSITIONING FOR IMPACT
With this budget, we have also made decisions to prioritize for impact. We know the absolute importance of the ministry here at the church, and so we have prioritized investing in the areas where people experience the most growth, change, and care. We believe in being a caring community to a hurting world, and we believe in changing the world here in Niagara. This means practically that in allocating our funds we are allocating them towards life change with Jesus and because of Jesus.
THE
BUDGET
Our budgeting has remained very fiscally conservative, projecting a slight decrease in donation levels to our previous year. We invite you to partner with us financially because when you give here you are a part of people experiencing and encountering Jesus. This is why we continue to budget conservatively and be grateful for every dollar given that goes to supporting ministries where care, life, love, hope, and most of all Jesus is found.
INCOME SUMMARY
PROJECTED INCOME FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR
Donation Revenue: $1,512,673
Community Engagement: $242,316
Programs/Rent: $120,855
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Total Income: $1,875,844
EXPENSES SUMMARY
BUDGET EXPENSES FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR
Salary: $1,071,669
Missions/Partners: $85,900
Facilities: $272,697
Ministry Programs: $136,134
Administrative: $95,502 Community Engagement: $213,942
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Total Expenses: $1,875,844
