SAMPLE CHURCH SPIRITUAL PROGRAM

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH at Comagaycay, San Andres

Catanduanes is committed to vigorously broadcast the gospel to all people within its territory and
to provide programs and situations that will help church members attain spiritual maturity.

BOARD OF ELDERS

I. OBJECTIVES

1. Conduct Bayanihan every 1st Sunday of the Quarter.

2. Conduct seminar/activity on how to make a sermon outline.
3. Organized basketball activity every Sunday.
4. Conduct church outing quarterly.
5. Conduct revival and reformation.
6. Finalized speaking and presiding assignments schedule of church elders and deacons for
midweek prayer meetings, vesper and divine worship services by January 5.

II. ACTION PLANS

A. Conduct Bayanihan twice a month

1.Obtained church board approval by March 16, 2024.
2. Designate deacons/deaconess as coordinator.
3.Make a lot assignment.
3.Elect leader in every lot assignment.
4.The food is contributed by each member.

B. Conduct seminar/activity on how to make a sermon outline.

1. Obtained church board approval by March 16, 2024.
2. Designated Elder Pedro Cruz as project coordinator by January 15.
3. Enlisted the services of Pastor Elmore Padua to serve as resource person by January 20.
4. Issued out written invitations by January 16 to all church elders, deacons and other
officers and interested members. The elders and officers of the two nearest churches
will also be invited to attend seminar-workshop.
5. Obtained approval of San Fernando Church to hold the two-day seminar-workshop in
its facilities by January 30.
6. Appointed the following working committees by January 15.
a. Food and entertainment
b. Housing
c. Program

C. Front Wall Improvement

 1. Church Board approved project by January 15, including the following:
a. Project officer: Associate Elder Pio Gavino
b. Appropriation from church improvement fund Php 10,000.00
c. Solicitation program to raise another Php 10,000.00 by May 15 and
Further, to appoint Mrs. Eve Selda as chair of solicitation committee, Elder Pete
Toralba, Elder Jorge Claraval, Mrs. Narda Tolentino, Mrs. Diana Rival and
Deogracia de Belen, members.
2. Obtained consent from Bro. Tom Nanda (Architect) to prepare design of project by
March 20.
3. Purchased materials by June 10.
4. Started construction of project by June 15
5. Completed project by June 27.

D. Visiting Teams
1. Seek church board authorization to divide church members’ household into six groups
and request the church clerk to prepare the listing of families therefore by January 15.
2. With the elders and the head deacon and head deaconess serving as team leaders, the
deacons and deaconesses are equally divided into six serve as members of these six
teams; each team assigned to visit a given list. This is to be accomplished by January
30.
3. Needs, problems and complaints of members expressed as they are visited may be
addressed to directly by a visiting team or referred to an appropriate department for
immediate attention.
4. The program of visitation starts February 1 and shall continue within the 1st week of
April, June, August, October and December. Special visit may be made as needs
arise.

E. Speaking Assignments
1. Obtained church board action by January 5 that a one-Sabbath-every-month divine
worship schedule be reserved for elders and deacons, including mid-week and vesper
meetings.
2. Elders and deacons are informed of their speaking assignments by January 7.
3. Elders are informed of their presiding assignments by January 7.

III. BUDGET

A. Art of Presiding Seminar-Workshop – Php 2,000.00

1. Source(s) of Income
a. Appropriation from church seminar and workshop fund Php 2,000.00
2. Expenses
a. One meal Php 1,000.00
b. Handouts 500.00
c. Miscellaneous 500.00
TOTAL Php 2,000.00

B. Sermon-Preparation Seminar-Workshop
 1. Source(s) of Income
a. Registration fees Php 1,500.00
b. Appropriation from 3 participating
churches at Php 500 each 1,500.00
TOTAL Php 3,000.00
2. Expenses
a. 2 meals Php 1,500.00
b. Handouts 800.00
c. Miscellaneous 700.00
TOTAL Php 2,000.00

C. Front Fence Improvement

1. Source(s) of Income
a. Church appropriation Php 10,000.00
b. Solicitation 10,000.00
TOTAL Php 20,000.00
2. Expenses
a. Materials Php 10,000.00
b. Labor – 6 people
1 worker at Php 180/day (180x12 days) = Php 2,160
5 workers at Php 120/day (120x5x12 days) = Php 7,200 9,360.00
c. Miscellaneous 640.00
TOTAL Php 20,000.00

BOARD OF DEACONS/DEACONESSES

I. OBJECTIVES

1. Conducted four (4) communion services by December.

2. Purchased one electric polisher by March 30.
3. Prepared one schedule of weekly cleaners for 1999 by January 30.
4. Prepared one schedule of deacons/deaconesses to assist during communion services by
January 30.
5. Prepared one annual schedule for deacons and deaconesses to receive tithe and offering
on a weekly frequency by January 30.

II. ACTION PLANS

A. Communion Services
1. Sought approval of church board on communion service schedule for 1999 (March
27, June 26, September 25, December 25) by January 30.
2. Designated communion work schedule of deacons and deaconesses by January 30.
3. Purchased communion services needs for 1st and 2nd quarters by February 15 and for
the 3rd and 4th quarters by August 30, 1999.
 B. Electric Polisher
1. Church board approved purchase of equipment by January 30.
2. Withdraw fund from treasurer by February and requested brother deacons A & C to
purchase polisher by February 30.
3. Appointed the head deacon and head deaconess and ________ Elder Juban as committee
to solicit funds.

C. Weekly Cleaners
1. Board of deacons/deaconesses approved plan to assign families to do weekly cleaning
of church and its premises.
2. Church board approved schedule of cleansers as recommended by board of
deacons/deaconesses by February 15.
3. Sought church members’ approval of weekly cleaners as recommended by church
board by February 22.
4. Notified church families of their cleaning schedule through letters and bulletin board
by March 15.
5. Purchased additional cleaning equipment by March 10.

D. Communion Service Schedule

1. Pastor meets with elders, deacons and deaconesses for tentative schedule of their
assistance during communion services by January 17.
2. Church board approved the schedule of deacons and deaconesses for assisting in the
quarterly communion services by January 30.
3. Head elder notified-in-writing deacons and deaconesses of their communion service
assistance assignment by January 2.

E. Tithe and Offering Assignments of Deacons and Deaconesses

1. Head Elder meets with other elders, deacons and deaconesses to come up with a
tentative schedule of assignments of deacons and deaconesses for the 1999 weekly
receiving of tithe and offerings by December 15, 1998.
2. Church board approves weekly assignments of deacons and deaconesses for receiving
tithe and offerings by December 20, 1999.
3. Head deacon and deaconesses notified deacons and deaconesses of their tithe-and-
offering-receiving assistance assignments by December 28.

III. BUDGET

1. For objective #1
Source(s) of Fund:
a. Church Expense
b. Amount of Appropriation Php 2,000.00

Expenses
a. Grape Juice Php 1,200.00
b. Bread 600.00
c. Soap and Laundry 200.00
 Total Php 2,000.00

2. For objective #2
Source(s) of Fund:
a. Appropriation from Church Expense Fund Php 5,000.00
b. Solicitation 10,000.00
Total Php 15,000.00

Expenses
a. Transportation Php 500.00
b. Polisher 14,500.00
TOTAL Php 15,000.00

SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

I. OBJECTIVES

1. Bought one-year subscription to Sabbath School Journal by January 2.

2. Purchased teaching aids and source materials for children’s division, teachers by January
5.
3. Selected Sabbath School teachers through Sabbath School council by January 3.
4. Church board approved Sabbath School teachers by January 4.
5. Members divided into small groups (Sabbath School Classes) by Sabbath School Council
by January 3.
6. Church board approved small group formation by January 4.
7. Held one teachers’ training seminar-workshop.
8. Made four Sabbath School quarterly devices by October.
9. Held 16 small group evangelism by December 31.
10. Conducted 3 cottage meetings by October 30.
11. Conducted 2 VBS by April 30.
12. Conducted 6 Branch Sabbath Schools by June 30.
13. Conducted quarterly survey by SS lesson orders for adult, youth and children.

II. ACTION PLANS

A. Sabbath School Journal

1. Obtained approval of Sabbath School council to purchase Sabbath School Journal by
January 2.
2. Designated the Sabbath School Secretary to place subscription with the conference by
January 3.
B. Sabbath School Journal
1. Determined the teaching-aid needs of the children’s division through the leader by
January 3.
 2. Sabbath School Council seeks approval of church board for purchase of materials by
January 4.
3. Church board approved purchase of supplies by January 6 and designated the
children’s division leader to order and pay for supplies from the conference.

C. Selection of Sabbath School Teachers

1. Chosen Sabbath School teachers through recommendation by Sabbath School
Council by January 2.
2. Recommended Sabbath School teachers approved by church board by January 3.
3. Selected teachers informed—through letters—by Sabbath School Secretary of their
appointment by January 4.
4. Sabbath School Council to recommend formation of Sabbath School Classes (small
groups) and assignment of corresponding teachers’ therefore by January 4.
5. Church board approved the establishment of small groups by January 5.
6. Preliminary Sabbath School teachers’ orientation meeting held by January 5
discussing with them the following:
a. Functions and responsibilities
b. Nature and objectives of small groups
c. Suggested evangelism programs/projects of small groups
d. Use of forms and method of reporting

D. Teacher’s Training Seminar-Workshop

1. Project endorsed by SS council to church board by January 15.
2. Church board’s approval of project obtained by January 20, including the necessary
appropriation therefore.
3. Church board, by January 30 authorized attendance of the following:
a. General Sabbath School Superintendent
b. Sabbath School Associate Superintendent
c. Sabbath School Secretary and Associates
d. Church Elders
e. Sabbath School Teachers
f. Children’s classes teachers and leaders
4. Found appropriate venue by January 25.
5. All attendees written for their attendance in seminar-workshop (February 15).
6. Enlisted the services of Pastor Clester Tuazon, Conference SS?PM director to serve
as resource person by January 20.

E. Quarterly Device
1. Sabbath School Council appoints a small committee to conceptualize 4 models for
quarterly devices, the following as members thereof:
Chair: General Sabbath School Superintendent
Members: Sabbath School Secretary
Elmer Tudla (Artist)
Ronnie Chan (Sabbath School Teacher)
2. Proposed Sabbath School devices accepted by Sabbath School Council by January 10.
 3. Church board approves Sabbath School Council’s recommend Sabbath School
quarterly devices, including appropriation therefore.
4. First-quarter device completed by January 18.

CHURCH BUDGET

INCOME

Art of Presiding Seminar Workshop

Sources of Income:
a. Appropriation from church seminar and workshop fund Php 2,000.00

Sermon Preparation Seminar Workshop

a. Registration Fees Php 1,500.00
b. Appropriation from 3 participating churches 1,500.00 Php 3,000.00

Front Fence Improvement

a. Church appropriation Php 10,000.00
b. Solicitation 10,000.00 Php 20,000.00

Communion Service Budget

a. Church appropriation Php 2,000.00

Purchase of one electric polisher

a. Appropriation from church expense fund Php 5,000.00
b. Solicitation 10,000.00 Php 15,000.00

TOTAL Php 42,000.00

[Church’s SGG Computation here]

Approved by:

Church Elder Church Clerk

Church Treasurer Church Pastor

How to determine SGG
Step I Determine previous year tithe income
Step II Minus 20% lose factor
Step III Multiply it by ten to determine the Gross Income of the brethren
Step IV Budget ÷ Gross Income
Step V Multiply the quotient by 2 to come up with SGG

Example:

100,000 previous year tithe income

- 20,000 loss factor
80,000 Church potential
x 10
800,000 Gross income

Church budget ÷ Gross Income:

40,000 ÷ 800,000 = .05

x2
10% SGG