WORLD CHURCH

• FINANCE COMMITEE (Return)
  
  The Finance Committee also has an important mission in the church. he leader and his co-workers not only have the sacred responsibility to help manage God's property faithfully and conscientiously, but they should so work as God's stewards that the talents are multiplied. The sacred money should always be invested where the most souls can be 'on for Christ.
  
  Only when the funds are invested where the work can be quickly read and people won will the money be stored in the heavenly bank. The long-term capital consists of those souls who are won and will be und in heaven as the reward of the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
  
  The Finance Committee should be composed of people who possess good knowledge of such matters and have proven that they can econo­mize, plan, and accomplish much with little. It supervises all business matters in the institutions and gives advice to the union and field com­mittees which plan to build institutions or develop business activities.
  
  The considerations and decisions concerning financial matters should generally occur in the presence of and with the advice of the General Conference president. To avoid mistakes in making decisions, in the important and more difficult matters the advice of not only the pres­ident but, when necessary the entire General Conference Committee should be sought.
  
  The treasurer, no matter what level he serves in the work, may not use money according to his own criteria or as a means of pressure but should strictly respect the guidelines of the organization, being convict­ed that he is a steward of God's property.
  
  He gives the president a report of all financial matters once every three months