One of the key concerns for any new church plant is having sufficient cash flow to support capital and operational requirements for ministry.

In January 2008, Jeff began phasing out of his staff responsibilities for PGCC and into leadership of More Than 12. The PAOC BC/Yukon District has provided Jeff with partial support since January, which has been further supplemented by PGCC since June. For the remainder of his income, Jeff is engaging in his side businesses of web development through ComeleonStudio, business process outsourcing through Ethical Outsourcing and consulting.

This has enabled Jeff to work on planning, ministry plan revisions, developing a launch team and development of the website. Continued support is expected to be necessary until the new church is able to support Jeff part time. We are hoping this will be at the end of 2009 or sooner.

We are sensitive to the current challenging financial status of our "mother" church at PGCC, while eagerly desiring to press forward with the calling given to us. Accordingly, we want to ensure the transition of members from the PGCC body, with their human resources and their finances, occurs smoothly and without detriment to our parent and the broader community, of which we are a part. Because a large proportion of our launch team is from PGCC, and we have encouraged them continue tithing to PGCC for several for more months, we currently have no significant operations budget and are praying for God's provision in this area. The team has rallied together to contribute resources and equipment to help get things going and reduce the initial financial burden for capital expenditures. Also, we are planning to extend the soft launch deeper into the fall, to defer some of the higher costs associated with starting up, and with regular worship gatherings. In the meantime, we continue to meet in our homes through this process of visioning, bonding as a group, and addressing the practical requirements of bringing More Than 12 to life.

Also, there are individuals and organizations, who are currently not involved with PGCC in a tithing or financial capacity, who may be interested in financially supporting More Than 12. We proposing to the broader PGCC and UTown Church organization to help provide us a giving vehicle, so that finances could be better tracked and so that supporters would be able to receive tax receipts. We are working to have this in place as soon as possible, which would help our ability to turn fundraising efforts and relationships formed over the past few months, into actual funding, which for us right now is an immediate key priority.

With the goal of a soft launch for mid to late fall, immediate capital and operational costs will need to be covered, in addition to existing salary support, such as:

• Part time salary support for Jeff - $1,250/month starting January (a change to monthly salary from the $825monthly urban missionary support. Jeff plans to be bi-vocational ongoing) plus benefits

• Part Time Support for Matthew Brown - $2,000/month (More Than 12 is transitioning from Phase 1 to Phase 2 and Matthew's gifts, talents and experience are excellent for the nature of both Phase 1 and particularly Phase 2. He has abilities to organize, unify and to setup procedures and systems in place, which is exactly what the church plant needs where Jeff is weaker.)

• Administrative assistance - $1,000/month

• Facility rental fee / donation - $450/month for October to December 2008 for monthly worship gatherings. Increasing to $900/month for biweekly meetings starting January 2009 (Chapel Arts is initially prepared to provide the facility on Sunday afternoons at no charge, although would appreciate a donation for regular use and we do not want to abuse their hospitality. We also have requested the opportunity to match or outbid other events wanting to use the venue during our pre-booked free time slots, rather than lose our spot. Regular weekend rental rates are $150/hour)

• Promotion - $150/month for September to December 2008 to cover development on initial production of promotional materials during soft launch period, $500 in November and December 2008 and January 2009 in preparation for the for January launch, $300/month following

• Music equipment - $2,000 (to supplement the equipment of Chapel Arts)

• Development & Resources - $100/month

Wherever possible, we will continue to seek additional financial support, donated equipment and services to minimize cash requirements. However, we envision that supplementary support will be required from the larger PGCC community during these early months. The PGCC membership has expressed its support for continued church planting through the current governance overhaul and by approving specific church planting budgets, which we hope to draw on.