Provision

These tables summarize the provision and distribution of missionary allowances. Tables will be available within the first week of each month.

Provision Table for 2020

	God’s Provision Through:	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Allowance	Designated Support	44,540	39,255	41,018	49,498	40,437	37,510	40,425	38,312	42,795	42,186
	Missionary Support	27,659	32,071	30,749	21,670	30,913	32,103	30,935	44,330	37,491	37,480
	General Fund Excess
	Allowance Not Paid
	Total	72,199	71,326	71,767	71,168	71,350	69,613	71,360	82,642	80,286	79,666
Benefits	Designated Support	47,499	29,371	61,767	49,290	29,787	25,436	36,149	34,359	51,424	29,650
	Gifts to Benefits Fund	75	75	75	75	75	75	75	75	75	75
	Estate Funds	14,008	27,491		5,670	31,743	36,515	23,458	28,280	3,388	24,701
	Total	61,582	56,937	61,842	55,035	61,605	62,026	59,682	62,714	54,887	54,426
Unit Stats	Full-Time Units	40	40	40	40	40	39	41	41	39	38
	At 100% Target Allowance	40	40	40	40	40	39	41	41	39	38
	At Minimum Allowance
	Minimum Allowance	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Provision Table for 2019

	God’s Provision Through:	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Allowance	Designated Support	46,290	40,379	40,231	40,422	33,616	35,901	36,473	39,211	35,918	36,801	37,798	39,187	462,227
	Missionary Support	31,785	37,489	35,123	35,086	41,889	38,597	37,742	36,630	36,686	35,779	35,015	34,177	435,998
	General Fund Excess
	Allowance Not Paid
	Total	78,075	77,868	75,354	75,508	75,505	74,498	74,215	75,841	72,604	72,580	72,813	73,364	898,225
Benefits	Designated Support	55,202	30,009	31,762	35,227	31,063	27,161	34,118	32,952	57,621	41,638	24,989	63,343	465,085
	Gifts to Benefits Fund	685	745	745	745	745	745	745	745	75	75	75	75	6,200
	Estate Funds	10,409	41,120	35,406	32,706	39,363	38,345	33,232	34,301	14,526	23,872	35,461		338,741
	Total	66,296	71,874	67,913	68,678	71,171	66,251	68,095	67,998	72,222	65,585	60,525	63,418	810,026
Unit Stats	Full-Time Units	43	43	42	42	42	42	42	43	42	41	41	42	42.08
	At 100% Target Allowance	43	43	42	42	42	42	42	43	42	41	41	42	42.08
	At Minimum Allowance
	Minimum Allowance	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Provision Table for 2018

	God’s Provision Through:	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Allowance	Designated Support	47,799	35,751	38,753	35,862	36,310	38,159	38,729	38,141	38,770	44,162	39,479	45,245	477,160
	Missionary Support	26,082	13,570	4,649	4,775	6,096	7,214	3,468	5,693	21,043	26,404	39,026	33,445	191,465
	General Fund Excess	566	4,834	33,648	35,832	22,428	16,021	27,700	32,757	13,271	7,927			194,984
	Allowance Not Paid		22,956			12,191	16,026	5,627		5,207				62,007
	Total	74,447	77,111	77,050	76,469	77,025	77,420	75,524	76,591	78,291	78,493			925,616
Benefits	Designated Support	33,213	44,611	28,491	30,640	29,746	34,084	31,361	29,336	48,217	32,889	61,443	58,474	463,627
	Gifts to Benefits Fund	75	200	33,809	20,200	685	685	685	685	6,916	2,963	835	5,810	39,664
	Estate Funds	24,133	17,323	33,809	7,251	31,712	25,242	29,996	34,470	10,486	30,920			245,342
	Total	58,543	62,133	62,226	58,091	62,143	60,011	62,042	64,491	65,619	66,772			748,633
Unit Stats	Full-Time Units	42	43	42	42	42	42	41	43	44	43	43	43	510
	At 100% Target Allowance	42	14	42	42	11	14	15	43	15	43	43	43	367
	At Minimum Allowance		28			31	28	26		29				142
	Minimum Allowance	100%	58%	100%	100%	74%	61%	86%	100%	88%	100%	100%	100%	89%

Provision Table for 2017

	God’s Provision Through:	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Allowance	Designated Support	49,977	35,076	39,774	41,674	39,201	39,416	41,533	41,196	41,737	40,722	36,840	37,636	484,782
	Missionary Support	35,590	49,251	42,145	18,740	806	4,350	1,339	9,996	2,282	41,007	41,557	38,270	285,333
	General Fund Excess				22,668	19,189	20,055	17,713	17,242	26,467				123,335
	Allowance Not Paid					28,128	18,326	20,603	17,865	9,523				94,445
	Total	85,566	84,327	81,918	83,082	87,324	82,147	81,189	86,300	80,009	81,729	78,397	75,905	987,894
Benefits	Designated Support	38,203	24,819	38,319	34,240	23,000	33,328	46,292	28,541	40,584	13,939	31,641	36,958	389,864
	Missionary Support	5,482	3,168	1,555	474	744	839	516	662	1,933	53,428	17,246	10,828	96,875
	Gifts to Benefits Fund	50		75	75	75	75	75	75	250	225	2,982	475	4,432
	Estate Funds	18,075	45,368	29,169	33,010	67,376	40,005	23,954	41,561	36,958		5,588	31,135	372,200
	Total	61,810	73,356	69,118	67,800	91,195	74,247	70,837	70,839	70,725	67,591	57,456	79,396	863,370
Unit Stats	Full-Time Units	47	46	45	45	46	45	44	44	43	43	43	43	534
	At 100% Target Allowance	47	46	45	45	11	12	12	13	13	43	43	43	373
	At Minimum Allowance					35	31	26	28	29				149
	Minimum Allowance	100%	100%	100%	100%	48%	62%	54%	63%	80%	100%	100%	100%	81%

Designated Support Funds

These are gifts to a particular missionary’s support fund i.e. (Smith – Support Fund) Gifts to designated support funds are the most significant part of missionary support. Missionaries that receive all of the needed monthly support through these gifts will receive 100 percent of the monthly stipend regardless of any other fund balance. Gifts to designated support funds pay for the missionaries allowance and benefits. All gifts to these funds are divided such that 52 percent will go directly to the missionary’s allowance and 48 percent is put in the benefits fund to pay benefit expenses.

Missionary Support Fund (shared allowance fund)

The Missionary Support Fund acts the same as designated support funds, the only difference being that there is no specific missionary name attached to the gift. These gifts also pay for missionary allowances and benefits. The missionary allowance portion is distributed to missionaries who did not receive full support through designated support funds.

General Fund Excess (shared allowance fund)

This year we have determined that we will need $19,000 per month* for general operating expenses. All monthly donations to the General Fund in excess of that amount are used to pay missionary allowances for those missionaries who did not receive full support through designated support funds. These excess funds are not used to pay benefit expenses, only missionary allowances.

Gifts to the Benefits Fund

The Benefits fund is almost entirely funded from that portion of designated support gifts that are transferred to the Benefits Fund. In addition to that a donor may make a donation directly to the Benefits Fund. Gifts given directly to the Benefits Fund will pay for the benefits of all missionaries and will directly decrease the amount needed from the Estate Fund for these expenses.

Estate Funds

Estate funds are used to make up what is lacking in the Benefits Fund in order to pay all of the Benefit Expenses for the month. These expenses are hard costs and must be paid in their entirety each month.

Estate Funds are not used to pay missionary allowances with the exception of Feb – Apr of this year. During those months the Council has established a minimum allowance payment of 70 percent in February, 60 percent in March, and 50 percent in April. Estate Funds will be used during those months to raise all allowances to that minimum threshold if necessary.

Allowance not paid

If the shared allowance funds are not sufficient to increase all of the under-supported missionaries to 100 percent allowance payment then some portion of the allowances go unpaid. This is the total amount of allowance not paid to all of our missionaries for the month. Unpaid allowances are not made up later.

Full-Time Missionary Units

This is the number of missionary units that we had on our payroll for that month. A family of six serving with us counts as one missionary unit. A single missionary counts as one missionary unit. We also have some short-term volunteers serving overseas, and some part-time staff in our office in Minneapolis. Volunteers and part time workers are not counted here. We also have a variety of different types of relationships with missionaries who are considered WMPL missionaries but are not on our payroll for one reason or another. This number is just the total number of missionary units that receive full-time pay and benefits from WMPL.

Units with 100 percent target allowance

Each missionary unit has a target monthly allowance based on the size of the family and age of the children in the family. If the shared allowance funds are not sufficient to pay all of our missionary unites 100 percent of the target allowance than only the missionary units that receive full support through designated support gifts will receive 100 percent of the target allowance. This number indicates how many missionary units received the full target allowance in that month. The maximum allowance paid to a missionary in a month is 100 percent of the monthly target, unpaid allowances are not made up in later months.

Units with the minimum allowance – Minimum Allowance

The shared allowance funds are distributed “equally” to under-supported missionaries based on a percentage of their target allowance. If the shared allowance funds are sufficient to increase missionary allowances to 65 percent of the target then all missionaries with less than 65 percent in designated support will receive enough of the shared allowance funds to increase their allowance payment to 65 percent of their target. In this example any missionary who receives more than 65 percent of the target allowance through designated support gifts will not receive any of the shared allowance funds. These numbers indicate the minimum percent of target allowance paid to any missionary that month and the number of missionary units that received that minimum amount.

Missionary Support Fund Balance

This is the balance in this fund at the end of the month. We will use all of these available funds if necessary to increase the minimum allowance payment as high as possible. In months when there is not enough to pay all of the missionary allowances we still may have a small balance in this fund at the end of the month due to donations that arrive in our office before the end of the month but after we calculate our allowance payments for the month on the pen-ultimate business day of the month. Any balance remaining in this fund at the end of the month is used for allowance payments in the next month.

Estate Fund Balance

This is the balance remaining in our Estate Fund at the end of each month. These funds at the moment are depended on quite significantly each month in order to help pay missionary benefit expenses. They are also used to fund certain ministry projects that our missionaries are involved in around the world, and certain capital expenses here in our U.S. office. If these funds were to run too low we would need to change some of the above policies allowing for more support funds to go toward benefit payments as these are hard expenses that cannot go unpaid.