Council on Finance & Administration

This is the evergreen explainer. The specific dollar figures for any given year are a per-year instance (shown below), not baked into this page.

A little vocabulary

• Apportionment — each church's requested share of the ministry the conference does together. A portion asked, not a bill.
• CFA (CF&A) — the Council on Finance and Administration, which builds the budget and sets apportionments.
• Collection rate — the share of the apportioned amount that actually comes in. The conference remits to the General Church only what it collects.
• For Conference Action vs. For Information Only — whether the body votes on it.

The North Georgia picture

Apportionments have fallen for seven straight years (a cumulative effect of reductions from 2020 through 2026), made possible by responsible funding mechanisms — the Barnes Fund and external grants — that carry core conference functions while keeping the burden on local churches low. Even so, North Georgia remains the third-highest conference in the United States by apportionment giving to the General Church.

The 2027 budget is up for a vote this year — see Up for a vote → 2027 Conference Apportionment Budget. The audited figures and trend are below.