Per capita resources
The following are resources that can be used in explaining per capita funding of PC(USA). These resources can help congregations, sessions and presbyteries better understand what per capita is and how it is used.
General Assembly per capita budget
The 2009—2010 General Assembly per capita budget as approved by the 218th General Assembly (2008).
Download GA per capita budget.
Brochure
A detailed description of GA per capita and what it funds.
Download GA per capita brochure.
Per capita offering envelopes
Hubbard Press includes special occasion pew envelopes, one of which is for per capita — for congregations that ask members to pay their per capita and their regular offering amount.
Visit the Hubbard Press Web site.
Article
Read Clint McCoy’s “How this mustard seed grew: The origin and impact of the per capita apportionment as a means of financing the General Assembly.”
Download McCoy’s article from the November 2007 issue of Perspectives, the online magazine of the Office of the General Assembly.
Advisory Opinion
Advisory Opinion #9 (revised November 2007) by Stated Clerk Cliff Kirkpatrick offers clarification about per capita in the life of the church.
Read the Advisory Opinion |
