One of the responsibilities of the Administrative Strategy Team is to guide our conference budgeting process, working in collaboration with the Council on Finance & Administration and the Connectional Table. We are currently focused on planning for the 2027 budget. (The 2026 budget was set in June at the TWK Annual Conference.)
For your ministry team to be included in the 2027 TWK Budget, you must submit the 2027 budget request form no later than February 1, 2026. The information your team provides will inform our ministry plans for 2026 and will provide input for the 2027 budget, as we work together across the TWK conference, aligning all our work with our mission: “To discover, equip, connect, and send lay and clergy leaders who shape congregations that offer Christ to a hurting world, one neighborhood at a time.”
Note: The process for Covenant Entities and Campus Ministries to make budget requests is slightly different. Please refer to your coordinating ministry team (Covenant Entities should refer to the Mercy & Justice Strategy Team; Campus Ministries should refer to the Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry).
The budget process has three basic steps:
1) The team leader and their committees will share ministry celebrations, plans for ministry, and anticipated budget needs for 2027 by submitting the Ministry Update and Budget Request Form by February 1, 2026.
2) The Connectional Table, in collaboration with the corresponding Strategy Team leader and others, and CFA (Council on Finance & Administration), will project a budget for 2027.
3) CFA will compile an overall 2027 budget for the TWK Conference and submit it to the Annual Conference in June 2026 for their consideration.
With this budgeting process, we aim to accomplish four objectives founded on the TWK values:
- To strengthen engagement, communication, and collaboration across all strategy areas and between all teams and committees in the TWK, eliminating isolated and siloed ministry,
- To directly align the dollars spent in the TWK with the values, mission, and discipleship priorities of the TWK,
- To improve accountability for ministry spending, and
- To foster transparency in our work.
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Questions?
In the coming weeks, team leaders will hear from their Strategy Team Leader to see how they can assist in this process. In the meantime, questions can be sent to Connectional.Table@twkumc.org, and we will be in touch!
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