Case Study: The Dakotas Conference

In order to discern the capacity to give, it is important to be familiar with the demographic data related to the topic of stewardship and the overall capacity of Christians spanning from worldwide to Millennials in Johnson County, Kansas attending LBC. For this section, the demographic content starts with worldwide and US statistics. Then shift from Kansas City (metro-wide), to county (Johnson County, Kansas), then community context for Lenexa Baptist Church. The demographics then will focus more on Millennials and then Millennials at Lenexa Baptist

Preparing for the event was very nerve-racking and I felt extremely anxious and apprehensive. The church attendance was all African Americans and mostly low-income with a mix of young and old. The church itself is very old, established in 1787, and sits in one of Carbondale’s poorer neighborhoods. I have been to this church before though, for work purposes to do a homeless count at the soup kitchen, so I was a little familiar with the church in general. Based on the soup kitchen experience the attendance of people in the church was pretty much as expected.

Throughout the streets of Portland stands the walls of a house that saw some of North Dakota’s most historical events. Built in 1880, John E. Fladeland was able to call this house his home. Fladeland was born in Winona, Minnesota in 1861 and moved to Portland, North Dakota as a young adult where he bought Forbes and Soldahl drug stores and managed the move theatre in town. After moving to North Dakota, the pharmacist ended up owning drug stores in Sutton, Luverne, and Bottineau.

(Marc Edelman(S)). This diagram demonstrates what the anticipated pay would be for these religious schools for the starters on their football groups and the aggregate educational cost for the begins, remember

These surveys show that church leaders have a great challenge ahead of them in order to prevent people from leaving church. They have to be more effective and have to think of creative ways to retain people in the churches.

Many cities in the u.s have been affected by the Oil boom, countless have made millions on this product. Oil isn 't always easy to find, as a matter of fact, it can be very difficult. Often times oil seeps to the top of the surface, making it easy to find, but most of the time people have to drill to find it. In the earlier days rigs could only work on land, however now we can use oil platforms to get oil from under sea beds. Many towns like Bainville and Watford city are being affected very heavily because of the oil, changes include: growth of population, riots, and heavy construction. Not all the people in these towns support and agree with the pipeline, which oftentimes leads to protests and riots. Many protests have ended in arrests because of the violence they promote. Many people across North Dakota have been taking drastic measures such as blocking highways and roads, killing livestock, and violent fights.These people are upset because this pipeline runs across some sacred burial sites of the ancient Native American tribe leaders. The Bakken Shale formation is one of the largest oil and gas industries, it covers over 200,000 square miles in just North Dakota, Montana, and Canada.(Carter,2013) The pipeline is 12inches wide and travels over 500 miles across the US. So far, between North Dakota and eastern Montana they have produced 1 billion barrels of oil. In just North Dakota, jobs are very easy to find in the oil industry.

For the final project in ACC380 Accounting for Not-For-Profit, we were asked to prepare a Statement of Activities, a Statement of Unrestricted Revenues, Expenses, and Other Changes in Unrestricted Net Assets along with a Statement of Changes in Net Assets for Lee College which is a private not-for-profit college. In addition to the financial statements, we were also asked to explain the process that was used to prepare the financial statements and to offer an in-depth analysis of the financial health of Lee College.

In Bill McKibben’s article, “Why Dakota Is the New Keystone,” McKibben expresses through vivid word choice, aggressive tone, and sentence structure, why the New Keystone pipeline should be in the Dakota’s. He brings together these elements to paint a vivid picture to persuade the reader into believing it too. McKibben uses words that clearly show what he wants the reader to picture and shows how he wants to shape this piece. He illustrates this by stating that there are “shocking images of the National Guard destroying tepees and sweat lodges and arresting elders” (McKibben).

including eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Conflict was sparked not only by these events, but also by the food-driven movement of Sioux warriors and hunters to the western plains. The movement of Sioux to the west prevented the tribe from being able to secure its territory along the Upper Mississippi, which forced the Dakota to either defend against takeovers from other native tribes, or move their tribes further south This constant warfare caused the Dakota population to decline rapidly to one-third of its original population between 1680 and 1805. Population decline and loss of territory led the once dominant Sioux to lose their prominent position amid other Native American groups. Similar to other societies, the Dakota participated

Table 4 shows the average Rocky Mountain church spends above the UMC average on clergy compensation. Rocky Mountain has almost 4% more dedicated to staffing expenses, pushing its rank to 8th. The average Rocky Mountain church spends 2% more than the conference average on program cost but, the UMC average on operating cost. Rocky Mountain is paying its staff more, and its clergy just above the UMC average all while maintaining the conference average on debt payments. Moreover, the conference is spending 2% more in program spending, which if reduced would help bring the conference in line with the UMC non-capital spending average.

55% of Northwest Texas’s churches have fewer than 50 weekly attendees (and 9% of the conference’s total weekly attendance) while 9 churches contain 27% of the conferences total weekly attendance. In comparison to other conferences, a large portion of the conference’s

the age of members and church location and size to validate, changes in the church. The census

Community and Target Aggregate: Catholic community, CCD class of 5th graders and 2 adults to monitor discussion

Around the 1950s, there were several states that began to use average daily membership (ADM) in their financial plans. The key features to any finance strategy are (1) a measure of need, (2) a measure of capacity or wealth, (3) the amount of unit per need that constitutes the program, and (4) the uniform rate to be applied to the measure of capacity. When looking at how to get a good measure of need in a foundation program, it is important to be objective, not subject to local manipulation, unambiguous, and simple. You must also make sure they have a commonsense appeal, be steady rather than fluctuating, and adequately reflect the differences between controllable and non-controllable principles.

The address of the survey would be directed to the program officers of the 500 nonprofit organizations in Texas that have the mission or purpose of providing their services into the social service or environmental activism. The program officer is the logical choice to address the survey since he or she is in charge of managing the projects, budget, expenditures, staff members and program activities. As a result, the program officer would have more knowledge about the fiscal health of non-profit organizations and therefore it will provide us with the information we need. The type of information that the researcher will need to gather data on is the approximate amount of revenue collected monthly and annually, as well as direct costs when