EWC Financial Update

I wanted to write a quick note and update everyone on the financial meeting last night.
As many of you already know I was ineligible for unemployment, so that plan to cut the budget didn't really work.
But, what it did do was force us to take a very detailed look at a few other areas ...

One of the very exciting areas was the furnace / air conditioner updates we have done in the past 2 years, plus the diligence of people like Dave and Wilma at making sure it only runs when it needs to, has meant we are $5600 ahead of where we were last year in heating and electric costs! PRAISE GOD!

In the end we have reduced all staff salaries including a reduction to Andrea's pay and moving her from a salaried employee to a 1099 contract to do the book keeping (which cut over $8000!) [ps. that was Andrea's creative idea ... good job Andrea Dawn!]

So everyone still has their job (including me ;) and we are by God's grace going to not only survive the storm, but grow in our ability to make educated financial decisions!

Please continue to pray for God's guiding and provision! Without his blessing even the best of our plans fall apart! Based on the average offerings for the past several months, we can make it until the summer reevaluation on this budget, but our hope is not in the average offering, or current economy (thank God for that!) HE is our hope! He is our provider!