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Board of Elders 3
Church Staff 4
Executive Report by Tod Bolsinger 5
Caring Ministries 6
Deacon Report 7
Family Ministries 8 & 9
Hispanic Ministries 9
Mission Ministries 10
Worship Ministries 11
SCPC Preschool 12
Financial Report-Executive Summary 13
General Fund Report 14
Building Fund Report 15
Membership & Baptisms 16
Attendance 17
In Our Father’s House 18
The SCPC Way 19
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*Team Chair/Lead
Name Committees Class
Juan Bonilla Discipleship 2013
Jim Cialdella* Worship 2014
Ralph Conone Missions 2013
Connie Crichton Missions 2015
Steven Ernest Family Ministries 2015
Carla Freeman Discipleship 2013
Libby Hawkes* Family Ministries 2015
Dennis Lausar Discipleship 2014
Denise Nesper Worship 2015
Jim Reilly Ministry Support 2014
Carl Rieger* Ministry Support 2013
Jim Ritchie* Congregational Engagement and Care 2013
Marylee Sanders Congregational Engagement and Care 2014
Chris Berry Solomon Ministry Support 2014
Larry Thomas* Missions 2015
2012-2013 Ruling Elder Roster
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Candie Blankman
Associate Pastor of Discipleship
Tod Bolsinger
Senior Pastor and Head of Staff
Crystal Bonilla
Preschool Assistant Director
Charlie Campbell
Associate Pastor of Worship
Diana Castruita
Director of Children's Ministries
(Mid-week)
Laura Clark
Communications Director
Jill Dupree
Childcare/Nursery Head
Sheryl France-Moran
Director of Missional Participation
Brieann Glass
Director of Worship
Janet Goode
Worship and Communications
Administrative Assistant
Sue Haffely
Director of Caring Ministries & Engagement
Casey Hawes
Director of High School Ministries
Corrie Hawes
Receptionist
Chance Hazelton
Director of Technical Production
Kelly King
Event Coordinator and
Assistant to Hispanic and Family
Ministries
Juan Bonilla
Hispanic Intern
Becky Knip
Assistant to Senior Pastor and
Business Manager
Bob Miller
Senior Facilities
Sarah Norris
Director of Choral Music
Emir Rodelo
Facilities Assistant
Ryan Romberg
Director of Junior High Ministries
Ken Mendoza
Facilities Assistant
Peter Sedlewicz
Business Manager
Julie Snyder
Director of Pre-teen Ministries
Dana Spohn
Director of Preschool
Lynda Thomas
Director of Worship
Production
John Zechiel
Worship Accompanist
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Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you. As the
Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”
2012-2013 was the year that we were “Sent”.
We spent the whole year learning what it
means to be a community that fulfills Jesus
words in John 20:21. We allowed the Spirit of
God to continue to challenge our hearts to see
the world right around us as a field ‘white for
harvest’.
So, in a year where we saw more of our people
participate in mission experiences (traveling to
Malawi, building homes and sharing their faith
in Mexico, joining the Advent Conspiracy, caring
for Marines, and launching of the Community
Resource Center), we will likely look back at this
past year as the year where we also took the
next step forward in deepening faith while we
were “sent”.
In the fall of 2012, we welcomed Rev. Candie
Blankman as the new Associate Pastor of
Discipleship. With over two decades of ministry
experience including eight years as a senior
pastor, Candie is the most qualified and
experienced pastor this church has ever called
(including yours truly). God certainly heard our
prayers. Pastor Candie immediately engaged
our congregation in a conversation about
discipleship and the need to get ‘plugged in’.
Small groups were energized, new studies
formed, a foundation was laid for the next level
of discipleship for a congregation that yearns
to not only make a difference, but truly BE
different.
This year we also solidified our pastoral staff
for the long term by affirming Charlie
Campbell’s call as Pastor of Worship. After ten
years of serving the church including two years
as the Executive Director of Worship and two
years as the Designated Pastor of Worship,
Charlie was installed along with Candie as
Associate Pastors. In a world where many
churches struggle to find experienced and
capable pastors, we have an abundance of
riches. We have new members joining our
church at a very encouraging rate. Our
membership topped 1500 and we have begun
to even have more adult baptisms.
For me, however, I will remember this year as
the year where a whole new group of younger
leaders stepped up and agreed to help lead
this “sent” community. We now have some of
the youngest and most engaged Deacons and
Elders in our history. We also have younger
members going on mission trips and bringing
vitality and creativity to our whole church
community.
As Jesus continues to send us into the world, it is
a genuine joy to be sent together.
Grateful to serve alongside you,
Tod Bolsinger
Pastor and Head of Staff
Tod Bolsinger Senior Pastor & Head of Staff
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The Prayer Chain, Visitation, Meal Team,
Prayer Quilters, Super Seniors, JOY Lunch,
Cancer Support Group and Stephen Ministry
served our congregation and community well
during the year under the leadership of Sue
Haffely, elders Jim Ritchie and Marylee
Sanders, and dedicated lay leaders and
volunteers. In addition, the Prayer Room and
Caring Cart on Sundays created additional
access for our SCPC family to get counsel,
prayer or set up with a Stephen Minister.
The Give It Away Fund helped various needs in
our congregation and community with $17K this
fiscal year. Besides disbursing food vouchers,
gas vouchers and bus passes to walk-ins, Sue
Haffely also partnered with iHOPE and Family
Assistance Ministries related to rental
assistance and other medical or practical needs
for individuals and families who they
determined to be credible. Sue also partnered
with Stephen Ministry and CRC therapists when
referrals were needed.
Sharon Davidson served her first term as
Coordinator of Stephen Ministry along with
expert co-leaders Vi Ritchie and Marsha
Easterday. Ten new Stephen Ministers
completed the annual Training Class. Cyndi
Martin took over the Meal Ministry for Diane
Olsen, operating the ministry efficiently for
families in need through the utilization of the
website, takethemameal.com.
Becky Barnes served as the new coordinator
for JOY Lunch, four lunches being held at
significant holiday intervals. A great new
volunteer team assisted Becky in ramping up
the quality of JOY Lunch, bridging the gap
with Cabaret Clemente finishing their run last
year. With many of our senior folks relaying
that they don’t drive at night anymore, this
event is a great fit.
Al Sloan continued to monitor the Super Seniors
group, recruiting advocates/sponsors for our
approximate 30 homebound or semi-
homebound for visitation and disbursement of
gifts like the Christmas poinsettias and Easter
lilies. Through ongoing efforts of Al and Enid
Sloan, the Prayer Chain now has around 300
participants.
ENGAGEMENT
Two New Member classes were conducted in
October, 2012, and May, 2013, resulting in
55 new members being welcomed into our
church family and three baptisms.
The Deacons maintained a strong leadership
role in several ways: manning the Welcome
Cart on Sunday mornings; being mentors and
presenters for New Member Classes; and
serving as Sunday morning greeters. They
were efficient and hospitable in following up
with visitors and coordinating with the new
discipleship team under Pastor Candie
Blankman.
Café Clemente continued to offer a warm
welcome to all with continued oversight by
Suzanne Blevins. We were grateful for all who
baked and served Sunday morning cookies, a
long held tradition at SCPC.
Jim Ritchie, Elder Care & Engagement
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Fourteen members served as deacons this past
year. Tasks accomplished in 2012/2013 are as
follows:
The “Visitor Card” and the “Welcome Cart” –
Deacons are continuing to handle the
Welcome Cart and perform follow-up on all
visitor cards with a phone call (or e-mail) after
we have met the visitor face to face at the
Welcome cart.. Deacons may assist the visitor
with any questions they may have regarding
programs or ministries associated with our
church. More personal needs may be addressed
with more specialized assistance, such as, a
Stephen Minister, etc.
New Member Class – Deacons continue to
assist with each membership class. Classes were
conducted in October, 2012, and May, 2013.
Mentoring and follow-up is the continued goal
for all future classes.
Greeting - Deacons served as greeters on
several occasions for two weeks periods of time
during the past year at the Sunday morning
worship services.
The CD Sermon Ministry – Orders are
continuing to be taken at the ―Welcome Cart
each week before and after the Sunday
services. Several deacons are involved in
duplicating the CD‘s. They can be ordered
online through the SCPC Website, as well. The
CD‘s are duplicated and ready for pickup at
the ―Welcome Cart the following Sunday.
Fewer orders have been received this past year
now that the audio and video are available on
the church website.
Plugged In – Beginning in January, the deacons
began assisting the Discipleship Committee and
Pastor Candie with this campaign. Cards were
collected on the patio after each service. All
congregational members were encouraged to
fill out the card and turn it in to any one of the
folks wearing the “silly hat” (as it has become
known) on the patio. This is a continuing ongoing
effort to encourage members of the
congregation to become engaged in the life of
our church.
The Deacons Fund (known as the ―Give It
Away Fund) – This fund continues to be
available to help families or individuals that
may require financial assistance. Many times,
we partner with F.A.M. (Family Assistance
Ministry) and IHOPE when helping folks with
their needs.
Places to Serve & Belong List – A listing of our
church ministries continues to be incorporated
onto the church website.
Bill Bluett
Deacon Moderator
Board of Deacons:
Bill Bluett
Casey Comeau
Bailey and Betty Crumpler
John Fry
Bob and Maggie McMillion
Bob and Pat McNeil
Al Rapp
Brian and Janet Shannon
Ed and Carol Smith
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The highlights of our year focused on Milestones,
Sunday school and Special Events.
Our staff and lay leaders took ownership of each
Milestone and engaged our families and children as
they deepened their spiritual formation. Preschool
parents learned a tradition of Blessing their Children
and the kindergarten families practiced praying. Our
first grade parents were taught to lead their children
in the practice of Holy Communion. Our three year
olds, second and fifth graders were given a gift of
Bibles for their age level. The third and fourth graders
finished their year with a Bible Jeopardy Game with
family and friends.
Our Sunday school teachers continue to give their time
and talents to invest in our children from preschool
through fifth grade. Even though we had spots unfilled
all year, our parents stepped up and filled in our
first/second combo and fifth grade classes as needed.
We averaged about 75 kids each Sunday. Our
preschool classes continue to grow. Our need for
teachers at this age level increases with our
attendance growing.
Special events and alternative children’s programming
provide an opportunity to invite families to engage
and empower their children in their faith formation.
These included:
• Advent Mix It Up--this year we did a family
“La Posada” with Jr. High and High School
and leading stations. The petting zoo was a
big hit.
• Christmas Eve Pageant was the perfect event
to invite families looking to get plugged in,
plus our faithful Herod and wise men.
• Holy Week children’s alternative program
included a Seder and many stations during the
week with hands-on activities to deepen Bible
knowledge.
• Bible Jeopardy is a Milestone for third and
fourth graders. We had our largest turnout
with 18 participants. The teachers lead the
event and prizes were awarded for highest
scores. All enjoyed a meal catered by
Carbonara’s.
• The year ended with VBS, which represents
months of planning and participation from
staff, elders, 80 plus volunteers. More than
200 kids learned to “Stand Strong for God.”
• We had a smaller group of kids attending
camp this year at both winter and summer
camp than anticipated. Including counselors
we sent 9 campers to winter camp and 16
campers to summer camp. Talking with many
families, they were taking personal vacations
this summer.
Diana Castruita
Director of Children’s Ministries
The health and vitality of Middle School Ministry are
at an all-time high during my time here at SCPC. One
main metric for success is in our small groups. If each
small group is healthy and thriving, if they are
building relationship through regular engagement and
study of God's presence in their lives, if they are
growing where growth may be needed, and when we
see the same faces, then we know things are going
well. This year all of that happened and
more. During Pura Vida 43 students learned about
the Biblical worldview on sexuality, while their parent
class averaged around 35. New students to the
church or to our program easily meshed and stayed
connected not only because of our great leaders but
perhaps even more because of the incredible
Christian welcome and witness from their fellow
students. The students raised over $300 in change for
Eden Reforestation Project, cared for women at Isaiah
House (a shelter for abused women in Santa Ana),
visited and chatted with elderly at the Capo Care
Center, built a house in Baja, and did all of these with
an intergenerational flavor. Our main theme for the
year was "Mission and Discipleship" (following the
SCPC community as a whole). With this weighty
theme and the response we received from our students
we were affirmed in our thinking that students care
about theology that matters.
Ryan Romberg
Director of Junior High Ministry
MIDDLE SCHOOL
CHILDREN
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As we reflect, the school year of 2012-2013 for the
High School students here at San Clemente
Presbyterian Church was a year of spiritual depth
in their lives. We’ve saw deep spiritual growth,
strong desire in students to take on leadership here
at the church and in their schools. Students were
extremely hungry for genuine community in youth
group. Planned events included worship, games,
sermons, and small groups mid-week during
“Refuge,” as well as Forest Home winter camp and
Emerald Cove summer camp. One major highlight
would be our time at Forest Home winter camp. We
had two students make a first-time commitment in
their relationship with the Lord and they have been
growing in that relationship all year long. This
upcoming school year of 2013-2014 holds a lot of
promise and excitement, as we see students and
adult leaders longing to grow and invest their time
and gifts into our High School Ministry.
Casey D. Hawes
Director High School Ministries
Over the past 12 months a team of eight individuals
with a passion for discipleship has developed and is
working through a number of initiatives designed to
encourage all who claim to be Christians to spiritual
maturity as followers of Christ. Our vision is that
wherever groups of Christians meet including small
groups, ministry teams, church committees and Bible
studies, intentional steps are taken to bring in the
elements of discipleship-prayer, focus on the Word,
personal relationships, spiritual encouragement,
accountability and leadership development. One of
our initiatives has been developing discipleship
opportunities for new members by working with
Deacons to encourage new members to engage in
the life of the church sooner.
Expanding and enhancing our small group program
has been another initiative worked on by a
leadership team of three individuals who are
focused on overall small group coordination and
bringing elements of discipleship into existing
groups, while at the same time planning expansion
of new groups. The committee has been working on
discipleship leadership training, and we look
forward to working with the new associate pastor
of adult discipleship as to how to best implement
training initiatives.
We also continue to look for fresh ways to work
with our Hispanic ministries to emphasize the unity
we value as the Body of Christ. Finally each of our
committee members is in some way involved in
discipling others in our spheres of influence.
Carla Freeman
Ruling Elder, Discipleship
In an effort to be more connected, this year we
stopped using the name Mision CASA, and simply
call ourselves San Clemente Presbyterian Church.
When speaking with people, we do specify that we
are a Spanish language service, but we also want
people to see that we are part of the church, and
not a separate entity. It has been a busy year, and
challenging at times, but we continue to see God at
work in the lives of people. Our numbers haven’t
increased tremendously, but that has allowed me
the time to work with individuals and dedicate time
to leadership training. We had our first family
camping trip this year, and it was a great time to
connect and engage in meaningful conversation with
some of our leadership. In addition, we also had 7
congregants of the Hispanic ministry become
members of SCPC. We had a good number of kids
go to Emerald Cove this year, which was not only
fun, but they came back wanting to learn more
about God. We implemented “Date Nights” for all
the couples in our ministry, in an effort to work
together to strengthen our marriages and families.
We have had a few people come forward and
start serving as Sunday school teachers, and ushers.
Overall, it has been a year of Spiritual growth and
building relationships. I believe God is preparing
the leaders to do his work, which is exciting and
such a blessing to see.
Juan Bonilla
Ruling Elder, Hispanic Ministries
SCPC ADULT DISCIPLESHIP
HIGH SCHOOL
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We developed three questions to help us focus on being disciples in our Missional Service. 1. What character and capacities of Jesus does God need to work in me during this mission event? 2. How does God need to work in our team to help us connect in a God-honoring way during this mission event? 3. What do I anticipate God doing through me during this mission event? Our Missional Service included the following. • Being disciples in “our” Jerusalem: -Each month a team fed the hungry through
Welcome INN. -A team led worship at the State Park over the summer. -We were involved with our Marine Ministry through special meals, greeting them when they returned from deployment, providing them with Welcome Home Bags, hosting a baby shower and tutoring at San Onofre School. -Our members served with Family Assistance Ministry by donating food each month, participating in the Hunger Walk, joining in the San Clemente Trail Run and holding a concert to raise funds. • Being disciples in “our” Judea: -Through our Baja Ministries we built two homes in El Niño, threw a Christmas party for our partners, worked on projects for our Hospice partner and interacted with children at our partner Orphanage. • Our members supported Rancho Sordo Mudo by
donating food and serving on two mission trips.
• Being disciples around the world: -We celebrated our 8-year partnership with the Y-Malawi Fair. -We held the final fund raiser for wells in Malawi since the need for clean water in Nkhoma has been met. -We filled about 350 Operation Christmas Child boxes. -We learned from our mission partners who visited and how God is at work in Ukraine –
Nita Hanson; sensitive countries through Bible translation – Janet and Paul McLarren; Pakistan – Paul and Pat Stock. -We gave 249 gifts to 97 ministries totaling $48,685 through Advent Conspiracy and Giving Tree. -Kim Yim’s book signing for Refuse to Do Nothing reminded us of modern day slavery. • Learning how to be disciples wherever God calls
us: -Four young women attended Urbana Student Missions Conference and made commitments to serve the Lord. -A dozen members helped lead and attended the Los Ranchos Presbytery Missions Summit. -Forty-three members highlighted their ministries at the Inside Outside Missions Fair. Mission Committee: Chair Larry Thomas
Connie Crichton
Ralph Conone
Sheryl France-Moran
Harriet Hughes
Janet McRae
Bret Daniels
Saul Bonilla
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The worship team, lead by Rev. Charlie Campbell,
Associate Pastor of Worship, continued to explore
the broader concept of worship and how it takes
place within our congregation and how leaders can
guide, enrich, and inspire the worship experience.
Because we are inclined to be more “audience” than
“actors” when we go to church, it is incumbent on us
to continually look for ways to enable our
congregation to understand and experience the fact
that worship is something we all “do” together.
We offer three Sunday services; a more traditional
9:00 a.m. service, a more contemporary service at
10:45 a.m., and our service in Spanish beginning at
12:45 p.m. The Sanctuary Choir, the Isaiah Chorus
and the Sounds of Brass Bell Choir participate each
month in the morning services under the leadership
of Sarah Norris, with Nesa Anderson directing the
bells. John Zechiel continues to accompany the
singing groups, play with the instrumentalists, and
assist Charlie with charting as well as providing
piano and organ solos.
Lay leaders continue to be a vital, integral and
indispensable component of our worship services as
leaders, musicians, greeters, ushers, communion
servers, and those who supply and display the
bread and wine for our weekly communion. We
continue to seek new ways to maximize these roles
as we seek to increase members’ engagement in
the life of the church.
In 2012 we continued the long tradition at SCPC’s
annual Christmas Concert for our own church family
and for our community. The concert tells the story of
Christmas in music and the spoken word.
Under the leadership of Brieann Glass, Worship
Director and with the support of both staff and laity,
we continued to offer a series of monthly Vespers
evenings from October 2012-June 2013. These
evenings of prayer and reflection, offer an
opportunity to grow spiritually through a variety of
multi-medium practices and disciplines. The highlight
of our Vespers series was “Way of the Cross” during
Holy Week that was attended by over 500 people
from our church and the greater San Clemente
community. It offered an artistic, interactive, visual
presentation of the Passion Story.
The Monday Night Gathering is an experiment in
church planting that developed this year under the
leadership of Brieann Glass, Rev. Ron Eckert, Parish
Associate, and other church members. We consider
ourselves part of a bigger movement in the PCUSA
called “1001” – 1001 worshipping communities. This
effort is focused on people who wouldn’t ever walk
through our doors on a Sunday morning, yet want to
talk about their faith, find Jesus interesting, and are
in search of authentic community. The Monday Night
Gathering is a consistent group of 10 people who
gather weekly as they continue to experiment and
pay attention to what God desires to do in and
through them.
During the year, SCPC, led by lay leader Steve
Canfield, the President of the Sanctuary Choir,
hosted three concert events.
• October 13, 2012 featured the Kiev
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus attended by
500 church and community members
• April 28, 2013 featured the “Amazing
Wesley Brothers” actors & singers telling the
story of the music of Charles & John Wesley
• June 21, 2013 featured our Sanctuary
Choir, Isaiah Chorus, and Sounds of Bronze
Bell Choir The complete worship team, under the leadership
and guidance of Rev. Charlie Campbell, includes
Brieann Glass, Director of Worship, Lynda Thomas,
Director of Worship Production, Chance Hazelton,
Director of Technical Production, Sarah Norris,
Director of Choral Ministries, John Zechiel, Worship
Accompanist, and Janet Goode, Worship
Administrative Assistant. Ruling Elders currently
serving Worship include Jim Cialdella and Denise
Nesper.
Jim Cialdella
Elder, Worship
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The 2013/2014 school year is fast
approaching. We are currently performing our
annual review of the SCPC Preschool Program to
identify areas that need improving, and how we
can continue to support the changing needs of our
children, their families, and the preschool staff.
The past school year brought a couple changes to
our preschool staff. After 8 years as an assistant
teacher, Claudia Ryley left the preschool to
pursue her dream of becoming a paralegal.
Although it was difficult to see her go, we know
the Lord has blessed her and her family with this
full-time position. With Claudia’s departure, Julie
Snyder, a church member and previously Sunday
School Director, joined our preschool staff as an
assistant teacher. Julie and Rebecca Lanford
were teaching partners in the Bluebird Class.
Our current program offers morning sessions five
days a week and an afternoon enrichment Class
(Owls) three days a week. Our afternoon
Enrichment Class has proven to be very popular
with our parents and the children. This class is so
exciting because it provides opportunities for
children to participate in live science, music, and
the arts. Also popular with our preschool families
is our daily Lunch Bunch Program. This is our
Extended Day Program and it is designed to
meet our parents’ need for a longer school day.
It is offered after school each morning. Families
may sign-up for one or two hours each day their
child attends school, and we are able to
accommodate 30 – 40 children per day.
On a daily basis we employee15 staff members
5 days a week, 75 children attend our morning
session and 15 children attend our afternoon
session. Our preschool is able to accommodate
approximately150 families.
As the Preschool Director, I am always amazed at
how quickly times goes by. This year will be my
19th year at the preschool - 9 of them as the
Director. Crystal Bonilla, the Assistant Director will
be going into her 5th year. As the years roll by
we both feel truly blessed to be working at our
home church and in a field we are truly
passionately about.
We are deeply devoted to our critical role in our
church and community, and our preschool staff
continues to thank the Lord as He continues to
care for us and our thriving ministry.
Dana Spohn
Preschool Director
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SCPC’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, and
somewhat similar to the 2012 fiscal year, it was
another roller coaster ride. For the past fiscal
year our total spending exceeded our giving and
receipts by $67,000 or we ran a small deficit.
Even though $67,000 is quite a bit of money we
say “small” in that our total budgeted giving and
spending is over $2.4 million for SCPC and this
deficit represents just over a 2.5% shortfall. This
deficit is a combination of less giving than
anticipated coupled with unexpected expenses
primarily related to the maintenance and repairs
of our campus. This deficit did reduce our reserves
and essentially used the entire surplus we
generated in the 2011/2012 fiscal year, so that
over the past 24 months SCPC effectively broke-
even or maintained a balanced budget during this
period.
We started out the first five months of the fiscal
year pretty much in line with our budget with both
giving and spending tracking closely. However,
during December we experienced another
sizeable shortfall in our giving very similar to the
prior year where we were over a $100,000 short
through the end of the calendar year. Your
Session studied the situation closely in January and
elected to communicate quickly to the
congregation the need and with the help of staff
and lay leaders orchestrated numerous prayer
sessions to ask that the Lord guide us through the
challenging economic conditions and provide for
us in the best way possible. This tact was much
different than the prior year where Session
instituted a “Ketchup Campaign” to encourage the
congregation to provide. This year we prayed
and messaged, believing that it is God’s will if we
are to be provided for. Through May our deficit
grew larger to over $160,000; however in June
we were blessed with strong giving that helped us
end with only a $67,000 deficit.
During the fourth quarter of our fiscal year while
we were facing the largest deficits of the year,
your Session took the opportunity to reflect on the
realities of our congregational giving in light of
economic, denominational and cultural issues to
look for greater efficiencies in SCPC operations
and structure. Through deep discernment and
broad input Session was able to approve a
2013/2014 budget which projects 3% less giving,
yet which will ensure programs and missions are
maintained at their current levels. As a by-product
of this effort you will be seeing new programs this
Fall to usher in greater congregational
engagement from our over 1,400 members.
Greater engagement we believe will lead to a
stronger commitment to tithe and invest in SCPC.
One of the benefits SCPC was able to realize this
past fiscal year was the ability to refinance the
largest portion of our mortgage debt to a much
lower interest rate. On January 1, 2013 the new
interest rate on $3.7 million of our mortgage
dropped to 2.17% and will remain fixed through
2017. At June 30, 2013 the total amount of
mortgage outstanding is $5,649,000 million with
a blended interest rate of 3.64%. During the past
fiscal year SCPC paid down our mortgage debt
by over $241,000 through monthly amortization,
Legacy gifts and the congregation’s direct
contributions to the Debt Reduction Fund. It should
be noted that over the past fiscal year SCPC did
not receive any Legacy Gifts through estate, trust
or will settlements. This was somewhat surprising
and will be studied further this year to make sure
the congregation is aware of the Legacy benefits.
In past gifts; if undesignated, they have been
primarily utilized for debt reduction and to
supplement unfunded general fund needs.
The Ministry Support team oversees the finances,
information technology, stewardship/legacy,
human resources, building & grounds and legal
matters; providing SCPC with the strong fiduciary
oversight to maintain our ongoing business
operations. This past fiscal year the outside audit
of SCPC financial records and internal controls
reflected an exemplary opinion of SCPC’s
financial operations and high praise for Peter
Sedlewicz, our Business Manager, in maintaining
strong controls and sound record keeping.
Although the 2012/2013 fiscal year showed a
small deficit, SCPC was able to financially
navigate the turbulent year to help accomplish the
greater good of our Lord’s church and keep us
focused on our mission at hand without financial
distractions. The Ministry Support team humbly
thanks all of you that contributed to SCPC through
out the year and answered our prayers of need.
Thank you. The good Lord has provided us a lot,
we are truly blessed.
Yours in Christ,
The Ministry Support Team
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FISCAL YEAR 2012 2013
YTD YTD YTD Actual %
Actual Budget vs. Budget Change
Variance
General Fund Income $2,417,552 $2,475,000 ($57,448) -2%
General Fund Expenses
PHOS 73,261 58,700 14,561 25%
Admin 362,345 331,850 30,495 9%
Caring 2,714 1,500 1,214 81%
Community Life 13,343 12,250 1,093 9%
Family Ministry 31,623 34,550 (2,927) (8%)
Missions 88,782 90,650 (1,868) (2%)
Worship 61,493 70,575 (9,082) (13%)
Salaries/Benefits 1,400,000 1,403,235 (3,235) 0%
Mortgage 451,644 451,000 644 0%
Total General Fund Expenses $2,485,205 $2,454,310 $30,895 1%
Surplus/
Deficit ($67,653) $20,690 ($88,434)
Current Assets - June 2013
Dedicated Funds $299,153
Capital Reserve $41,189
Total Current Assets $276,356
Operating Reserve ($63,986)
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FISCAL YEAR 2012 2013
Current through
June 30, 2013 %Rate
Monthly
Principal
Monthly
Interest
Total
Payment
Current
Balance Time Remaining
Loan Due/
Adjust
First BF Mortgage-
Fixed 2.17% $11,488 $6,784 $18,272 $3,630,742
4.5 Years January 1, 2018
Second BF Mortgage-
Fixed 6.31% $4,327 $11,673 $16,000 $2,018,078
4.5 Years January 1, 2018
Total Mortgage Loans $15,815 $18,457 $34,272 $5,648,820
Building Fund Balances - June 2013
Available for Mortgage Payments $43,043
Reserved for Missions $12,290
Total Building Fund Cash on Hand $55,333
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Total Active Membership June 30, 2013 1503
Active membership reported June 30, 2012: 1454
Total Gains in fiscal year 2012/13 58
Total Losses in fiscal year 2012/13 9
Baptisms July 1, 2012—June 30, 2013
7 Adults 21 infants
Clerk of Session
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July 2012 914 August 895 September 1004 October 855 November 959 December 1201 January 2013 996 February 921
March (Easter) 1522 April 844 May 958 June 911
ANNUAL WEEKLY AVERAGE: 998
AVERAGE WEEKLY ATTENDANCE PER MONTH:
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2010 2011
July 2, 2012—Julius Coronado
October 28, 2012—Leroy Foote
December 31, 2012—Phyllis Dolkas
January 3, 2013—David Saul
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October 2012
san clemente presbyterian church
119 north avenida de la estrella san clemente ca 92672
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