• Each congregation makes a voluntary contribution of 1% of their local operating budget (all monies expended for current operation of congregations as reported in the General Assembly Minutes, Statistical Reports, Part II, Line 25.)

• Some churches are not able to begin at a full 1%, and adopt more modest goals, such as one-fourth or one-half of 1% and set a goal to increase that percentage each year until full 1% participation is achieved.

• This gift to the Theological Education Fund is the congregation's proportionate share for the education of present and future ministers and church educators. The Theological Education Fund is the only source of denomination-wide financial support received by our seminaries.

• The goal is for each individual church to understand that preparation of leaders for the church is an on-going operating cost of being the church, rather than one of many elective benevolence opportunities. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) challenges us to see our TEF contributions as a way of participating now in the education of future pastors, educators and other church workers, some you will someday call to be your pastor.

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