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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^  It is not online so I cannot do that.  Not sure I would anyway.  But, I can tell you that a majority goes to things OUTSIDE the church.  BTW - I am NOT Catholic, if that makes a difference.  Not sure if your experience is in the Catholic Church.  
Oh, and I might add that while our weekly offerings do help pay for the power bills, any maintenance is done by the congregation, using no church funds. Plowing the parking lot, landscaping, clean up, etc. - all congregation.  If we need a new roof, we start a dedicated fund.  Our church building is also used by the community and other groups for a variety of things - AT NO COST TO THESE GROUPS.  I know other churches sometimes charge.  Ours does not.
So, when I make a weekly offering, I know that the majority of the money I give goes to help those in need and those in our community.  [/quote]

Please, been there done that still do that. Have you ever seem an annual report?  [/quote]

Yes, for the last 30 years.  I attend the voters meetings and review the reports.  THAT is why I can say that I know this with confidence.  [/quote]

Well then what percentage of your budget goes to personnel, administration, facilities, and programs?  After thirty years, you should know these numbers by heart.

Here is what the evangelical churches participating in the ECCU said.  Note that total program expenses, including programs for their own church members, averages to only 14% of total spending.  That means that AT LEAST 86 cents out of every dollar donated and claimed as "charitable" comes back to the congregation in the form of services they receive.  Take out the youth group, the choir, religious education, and all of the other programs and you will get down below 5% actual charity to the poor.  So if your church runs special collections every single month, maybe that number creeps up to 15%.  Maybe.

[img]https://www.eccu.org/assets/general/Dec_2012_Table01.jpg[/img]

This is the Economist's estimate of where US Catholic church spending goes.  In fairness, some of that local church spending is going to be charitable but their financials at the local level look much like the evangelicals.

[img]http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/2012/08/articles/body/20120818_fbc986.png[/img]

I could keep doing this all day.  I say this as a lifelong Christian: far, far too much of church money goes to the benefit of the congregation.  We provide a very modest amount of true support for the poor.  [/quote]

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