In 1614, years before the Mayflower’s first landing, an English explorer captured a native American named Squanto. He was taken to Spain and then to England and then returned to his homeland. Imagine the impact of this one-of-a-kind English-speaking native walking out of the woods to approach the Pil-grims and teach them local survival skills. This event changed everything! Who could have known?

So is this an historic time for our movement? I’m not sure, but consider the following:

• For the first time ever, there is a global expression of our movement called the Charis Alliance. Last summer (2016) we adopted the Charis Commit-ment to Common Identity and joined the Charis Alliance by a unanimous vote of the delegates.

• Nothing beats watching your children grow to adults and apply values they learned from you to raising their own kids. More than 100 years ago we sent out missionaries. God has blessed, dis-ciples have been made (95% are outside North America) and they are now making disciples who make disciples. And the Charis Commitment to Common Identity demonstrated that 100 plus years later they are still holding to the same values we taught them. It doesn’t get any better than this!

It takes funds to live as a family – to pay the bills, to travel, to communicate. With a family of churches, it is no different.

Much of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches functions with volunteer leadership. Our national office is made up on one full-time person and a part-time as-sistant. It is a vital link between the more than 300 min-istries that make up the Grace Brethren family, including churches, districts, national ministries, and cooperating ministries. An annual budget to support the national of-fice is approved by representatives of member churches each year at our Vision Conference. These funds also allow us to come together for encouragement, vision-ing, and training at our annual Vision Conference or at regional meetings, such as Focus Retreats.

The financial records of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches are reviewed annually by a certified

public accountant. This review is available from the na-tional office by calling (574) 269-1269.

Delegates at the 2016 conference approved a $.25 per attender increase in the annual fellowship fee that each member church pays. You can see the complete del-egates report including a budget at http://fgbc.org/files/DelegateReports2016.pdf.

• This summer at Access2017, delegates will con-sider amendments to the FGBC constitution that will allow us to use the Charis Commit-ment to Common Identity in our membership process. This could be huge!

• Did you hear that we are considering a new DBA (Doing Business As) name for the FGBC? Stay tuned! Come to Access2017.

• Access2017 is our annual conference this sum-mer. We want EVERYONE there! Bring ALL your staff! ALL your elders! ALL your leaders! We are even offering discounted group rates for 5 or more. Our meeting space can hold 1000. Let’s fill it!

• Access2017 will be at Grace Community Church in Fremont Ohio. Due to the generosity of the

church we can reduce the registration cost to 1/3rd of past years. Access2017 will be all about creating access relationships for you with others in similar ministry contexts. Relationships that last long after Access2017 finishes.

• A new identity statement was never the mis-sion. Now we need to sharpen our focus what we have already agreed is our mission: estab-lishing new churches, training and deploying leaders, and doing good (creating good will, in hopes of one day, prayerfully, earning an audi-ence for the good news). Stay tuned!

If you haven’t noticed... Access2017 will be all about important connections and potentially historic deci-sions. Ya’ll come!

We declare that Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God, as revealed in the Bible, the written Word of God, is the only Savior and Lord. He is the center of our shared experience of true biblical unity.

— from the Charis Commitment to Common Identity (adopted by the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches in 2016)““

Family Finances Budgeting for a strong, growing family.

Could Access2017 be Historic?

changed everything! Who could have known?

Statistical Form &Fellowship Fee Request

2017

The Fellowship ofGrace Brethren Churches

Chur

ch N

ame

Emai

l Add

ress

Mai

ling A

ddre

ss

C

ity

Sta

te

Z

IP

1. A

vera

ge w

eekly

atte

ndan

ce fo

r 201

6

2. A

vera

ge w

eekly

Sun

day S

choo

l or s

mal

l gro

up at

tend

ance

in 2

016

3. To

tal c

onve

rsio

ns re

cord

ed in

201

6

4. To

tal b

aptis

ms i

n 201

65.

Tota

l mem

bers

hip

as of

Dec

embe

r 31,

201

6

6. Is

your

chur

ch th

inkin

g abo

ut or

activ

ely s

tarti

ng a

new

chur

ch?

Ye

s

No

7. If

yes,

who m

ay w

e con

tact

for m

ore i

nfor

mat

ion a

bout

this

new

chur

ch?

Calc

ulat

ion

of Fe

llows

hip

Fee f

or 2

017:

10. E

nter

the a

vera

ge w

eekly

atte

ndan

ce fr

om lin

e 111

. Per

per

son f

ello

wshi

p fe

e: ($

6.25

bef

ore M

ay 1

5. $

6.75

afte

r May

15)

$6.2

5 /

$6.7

5

12. M

ultip

ly lin

e 10

by lin

e 11

13. T

otal

fello

wshi

p fe

e - lin

e 12

or $

8,00

0 ($

8,50

0 af

ter M

ay 1

5)$

Sign

atur

e of P

erso

n Co

mpl

etin

g thi

s Rep

ort:

FOR

FGBC

USE

ONL

Y: D

ate r

ecei

ved:

/

/

C

heck

#:

Am

ount

: $

FGBC

Sta

tistic

al Fo

rm a

nd Fe

llows

hip

Fee

Plea

se co

mpl

ete a

nd m

ail t

his f

orm

as so

on as

pos

sible

but

by M

ay 1

5, 2

017

to:

F Fel

lows

hip

of G

race

Bre

thre

n Chu

rche

s P

.O. B

ox 3

84 P

.O. B

ox 3

84 W

inon

a Lak

e IN

4659

0 W

inon

a Lak

e IN

4659

0

Plea

se in

clude

a ch

eck f

or yo

ur fe

llows

hip

fee

paya

ble t

o Fel

lows

hip

of G

race

Bre

thre

n Chu

rche

s Tear

Her

e

Plea

se c

ompl

ete

all

blan

ks o

n th

e st

atis

tical

for

m.

Plea

se n

ote

that

the

sta

tistic

s fo

r th

is

repo

rt a

re f

rom

the

yea

r 20

16. P

leas

e pu

t 0

for

Non

e, N

R f

or N

o R

ecor

ds k

ept,

NA

for

N

ot A

pplic

able

. Do

not l

eave

any

sta

tist

ical

bla

nks

empt

y.

Plea

se s

end

the

orig

inal

rep

ort

but

be s

ure

to k

eep

a co

py f

or y

our

files

. D

on’t

forg

et t

o si

gn th

e fo

rm.

Plea

se i

nclu

de a

che

ck f

or y

our

fello

wsh

ip f

ee p

ayab

le t

o Fe

llow

ship

of

Gra

ce B

reth

ren

Chu

rche

s. I

f you

r ch

urch

is u

nabl

e to

pay

the

fello

wsh

ip fe

e th

is y

ear,

com

plet

e th

e re

port

an

d in

clud

e a

note

of e

xpla

natio

n.

Ple

ase

mai

l the

rep

ort a

s so

on a

s po

ssib

le b

ut b

y M

ay 1

5, 2

017

to:

Fello

wsh

ip o

f Gra

ce B

reth

ren

Chu

rche

sP.

O. B

ox 3

84P.

O. B

ox 3

84P W

inon

a La

ke I

N 4

6590

The

Fel

low

ship

of

Gra

ce B

reth

ren

Chu

rche

s is

a f

amily

of

dive

rse

cong

rega

tions

who

are

co

mm

itted

to

Jesu

s, H

is W

ord,

His

Chu

rch,

and

His

Mis

sion

. As

a fa

mily

we

mai

ntai

n a

natio

nal o

ffic

e, s

end

repr

esen

tativ

es to

ser

ve o

n a

natio

nal b

oard

(the

Fel

low

ship

Cou

ncil)

, pr

ovid

e po

ints

of

com

mun

icat

ion

and

conn

ectio

n, a

nd s

eek

to f

ind

new

way

s to

wor

k to

geth

er in

God

’s k

ingd

om. A

fee

is a

sked

of

each

mem

ber

chur

ch t

o he

lp f

und

this

join

t ac

tivity

. Use

the

wor

kshe

et a

bove

to

calc

ulat

e yo

ur a

mou

nt o

f co

ntri

butio

n ba

sed

on y

our

aver

age

wee

kly

wor

ship

att

enda

nce

(all

ages

).

Que

stio

ns? C

onta

ct T

om A

vey

at: t

omav

ey@

fgbc

.org

or

(574

) 269

-126

9.

FGBC

Sta

tistic

al Fo

rm an

d Fe

llows

hip

Fee

Ye

s

No

Ye

s

No