Assembly refocuses on tithing policy

Assembly acknowledged the faithful members of local churches who give regularly and, through their local church’s giving to the Ministry and Mission Fund (which typically provides over 90% of budget income) pay for ministers’ stipends, Assembly programmes and the many other costs of being a denomination.

As church membership numbers continue to decline however, there is more pressure upon individual members of the church to give more – as very many do. Assembly members therefore resolved to engage more closely with the church’s policy on tithing – which is that members be encouraged to give at least five per cent of their income after tax to the church.