lol. that one's destined for my office wall.
(right up there with "Failure is Not an option. It comes bundled with the software.")
Morning glock, that looks like the perfect title for your silhouette with the
3" group of sabots thru it!
Morning Bad Joe, and thanks to all, my granddaughter and I are having fun
this morning clicking all the pictures, listening to Xmas toons and such...
You like that, huh!
First of all my medical advisor, my wife the head rn in a busy medical practice, grounded me from church. She didn't me transferring my germs to the poor innocent Christians at our 10 am service. I may go to the financial meeting, most of those guys are too mean and tough to get sick. Besides I owe them something!
Glock, where "We can't have feelings get in the way of making bad decisions!" come in re a Church financial committee. Too often, feel good things are brought up that are not in the budget or things that could have a long range budget impact like a special raise to a priest or deacon. So we walk the fine line of being Christians and still have a church that is viable and basically debt free now and down the road. All of us are former Senior Wardens, managers or business owners. The treasurer is a CPA and is the CFO of many wineries in the valley! My nickname for him is E. Scrooge!
We decided about 8-10 years ago, that it was better for the church in the short and long run to ensure that good financial decisions were made not feel good decisions. About 30 to 40% of what we bring in each year goes to help fund other Christian and local charities where the money goes to what's needed not payrolls, offices, and fancy furniture!
Only our hard nosed attitude, "We can't have feelings get in the way of making bad decisions!" enables us have that much of our annual intake go out for charity and outreach programs! A lot of parishes without this attitude can't even pay their own bills and their assessments from the Diocese because they allow feeling to get in the way and cause bad decisions!