A skill
Wiring, drywall, small engines, taxes, a second language, a haircut. Tell a servant what you can do and it goes in the book against your name.
Giving · Roarcry
One purse, kept in the open
Nothing here is owed. Give if you can, take from the relief fund if you can't, and no one in the room will know which of those you did.
Give money
Pick an amount and where it goes. You can change or stop a monthly gift yourself, any time, without talking to anyone.
How often
How much
Where it goes
Which country
Leave this blank unless you want the gift tied to one place. A named country is a restricted gift: it is recorded against that country and spent there.
Your gift
$50 once, to wherever it is needed most
Payment is handled off-site by the processor. Roarcry never stores a card number, and giving records are seen only by the two members who audit the books.
Where a dollar goes
Set by congregational vote each January. Last year's actual spend, not a projection.
Audit
Books are closed and audited every January by two members who hold no office, then read aloud at the annual meeting.
Reserves
Roarcry keeps three months of operating cost and no more. Anything past that is moved into the relief fund.
Refunds
If you gave by mistake, say so within thirty days and it comes back, no explanation needed.
Debt
The congregation has voted not to borrow. If we cannot pay for it, we wait or we do without.
Give hours instead
The labor book counts the same as the purse. Most of what this church has was never bought.
A row
Take one row in the garden from planting to harvest. Whatever comes off it goes to the table and to households that need it.
A shift
The childcare rota, the sound desk, the table kitchen, driving people to appointments. One shift a month keeps the whole thing standing.
A thing you own
Tools, a trailer, a freezer, a truck for a weekend. Lent or given — both are written down, and lent things come back.
Questions about money
Ask, and
you'll get
a straight
answer
Anyone may see the books, member or not, in January or in July. If something on this page does not add up, write to the elders and say so plainly.
Emailelders@roarcry.com
Annual meetingSecond Sunday in January, after the service
StatusNot a registered 501(c)(3)