Annual Budget Breakdown

This chart shows how our funds were put to use during the 12-month period running May, 2007 through April, 2008, broken down by our five primary missional directions.

1. Promoting Spiritual Growth - 11%
Our biggest expense this year was GCN Radio, as the switch to in-house production of our show required purchasing new equipment and a significant number of staff-hours. We see GCN Radio as an important fixture of our spiritual growth focus, as it provides us a way to help people reconcile their faith and sexuality and discuss important faith issues. Looking ahead, we see tremendous opportunities for growth in this direction through developing Bible study materials, videos, and more.

2. Cultivating Safe Community - 31%
Our popular conference and online community dominate this section, making it the largest aspect of our ministry, both in terms of outreach and dollars spent. We want to continue to maintain the growth we're seeing in both of those areas, in addition to growing our local community projects.

3. Supporting Family and Friends - 6%
Our top expense in this area was providing one-on-one support to family members and friends of LGBT Christians through e-mail and our toll-free hotline. We would like to grow this area of our ministry to be a larger portion of what we do through increased staffing, advertising, and resource production. We're only beginning to scratch the surface of what's possible here.

4. Educating and Encouraging the Church - 24%
We have been working hard behind the scenes this year to finish our Youth Stories DVD, a major video resource to help change the minds of churches everywhere. We have also made significant progress on building our Welcoming Churches network, a multi-layered resource for churches and individuals. Both of these resources will be formally announced soon upon their completion.

5. Engaging the Wider LGBT Community and the World - 6%
Like our Family & Friends initiative, this direction received a comparatively small portion of our budget last year while we focused on other things; the expenses here were primarily related to staffing needs involved in bridge building and laying groundwork for future projects. As we move forward, we'd like to focus more energy and resources here, to truly impact those outside of the church.

Operating Expenses - 20%
This slice of the pie represents the expense of doing business as a nonprofit, such as monthly rent on our office space and credit card processing fees. As our overall budget increases, the percentage used up by operating expenses will decrease.

Current Fundraising Goal

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Our current goal is to raise the money we need to hire a full-time IT Manager.

Why is this important?
Our unprecedented online growth has led to new challenges we must face to continue serving the LGBT Christian community. Server slowdowns, technical support questions, and the need to continue updating our website and software to keep pace with a rapidly-changing world on the internet are just a few of the issues we're facing as our community expands to 10,000 members and beyond.

An IT Manager brings tremendous new opportunities for us as well: to develop additional web features and explore innovative new ways of sharing Christ's light and love through modern technology. We already have exciting, top-secret projects that are only waiting for this new staff member before they can be greenlit and put into production.

You can help us reach our goal today by making a pledge or a one-time donation.