Financial Administration Resources

Note: When you provide a check as payment to the Diocese, you authorize us either to use information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account or to process the payment as a check transaction.

Statement of Mission

Below you will find the 2020 SOM Timeline, Application and Spreadsheet Template. Please read the timeline carefully. Also note that an SOM application comes from the Commission under which the ministry falls and must include a summary spreadsheet (see template provided).

• SOM as Approved by Convention (2019)
• Statement of Mission Timeline
• Statement of Mission Application - Ministries
• Statement of Mission Application - Commission
• Statement of Mission Summary Spreadsheet Template

Employee Benefits, Property, and Casualty Insurance

Clergy Compensation Guidelines
2019 Guidelines

Employee Benefits
Church Pension Group
Active Clergy Retirement and Insurance
Retired Clergy Retirement and Insurance
Active Lay Retirement and Insurance
Retired Lay Retirement and Insurance
Retirement and Insurance Administration

Property & Casualty Insurance
For Clergy
For Administrators

Business Manual

The Manual of Business Methods in Church Affairs serves as the financial policies and guidelines for the Diocese. The manual can be downloaded here.

Parochial Reports

All Parochial Reports are due March 1. You can find the form here.

Designated Loose Offerings

• Bishop's Discretionary Fund - Bishop's Visitation
• Bishop Gravatt Camp and Conference Center - 2nd Sunday in February
• Episcopal Relief & Development – 1st Sunday in Lent
  • Make check payable to:
    Episcopal Relief & Development
    PO Box 7058
    Merrifield, VA 22116-7058
    Be sure to note on the check and envelope if there is a specific fund that these are to be posted to. For information regarding ERD, their website is: www.er-d.org and to find a listing of their current donations choices, you can visit: www.er-d.org/donate-select.php
• Good Friday Offering for Jerusalem - Good Friday
  • Make check payable to:
    Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
    mail to: Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society,
    Good Friday Offering
    PO Box 12095, Newark, NJ 07101
    (note: "Good Friday Offering" in the memo)
• Finlay House & Still Hopes - 2nd Sunday in May
• UTO offerings may be sent to:
  • United Thank Offering
    Mail to: Jennifer Evans
    ECW
    98 Maxton Street
    Spartanburg, SC 29302
    (note: spring or fall in-gathering)