 So you have the fortunate opportunity to be the first training for our conference on the Ezra system for collecting statistics or to check out. It's a communication gap. What are we talking about? We're talking about check out day where we collect statistics and now it's a new platform, Ezra. And so you know that actually, I really appreciate you being here because I totally understand what they were saying about the administrative side of ministry. It's not the most fun and it can be quite confusing and if you're one of those persons that looks at our forms and blanks out, you're going to be so excited today because you probably have the same experience. But be that as it may, in our journal we are required to do a check out by January 18th every year. That means we collect the statistics from the previous year, so this year we're collecting 2017 statistics that we then report to the general church. And I have to tell you that when I first started doing this I didn't like it as much as you all don't like it. And once we start on this I look at statistics until the journal is covered. So I look at them for nine months maybe. But what changed my heart about it was that that is the one section of our journal that people come back to all the time. So we put lots of stuff in the journal that a lot of people don't read. Historically the statistics, people come in ten years, the church uses it for all kinds of decisions. My current church membership determines how many general conference delegates we have for the jurisdiction. So I understand a lot of our members are guests, but they are actually used beyond the conference into the general church. That helped me kind of go, okay, well this isn't so bad. And so that sort of kind of there. And so what I want to say is the main change this year is the platform or the site where we record. Not much has changed in the content and we'll look at that, but it's really very important. So has anyone here never entered statistics or done a check out? Okay, one person. So if you get lost at any point afterwards, you talk to Jan or me or something like that. I wanted to go with the assumption that most of us are sort of familiar with the subject. We just don't know how to do it in our new platform going forward. Okay, and so one of the reasons we looked at switching the Bill of Cade views Ezra and again, but I don't know why it's called Ezra. But anyway I'm sure there's a good reason. We always have a reason none of this church for our names. But this has been available for years and actually W. Smith, our treasurer, looked at this five years ago with GCFA and we decided it wasn't right for us yet. Now we think it is. And there are only one of nine of the 56 United Methodist conferences who don't use it. So now there'll be eight after we get on board for 2017. So the train has left the station, the ship has sailed and we thought we'd get on board. And then finally, I hope you find this. This is what I know Jan and Greg and all the people who check the forms that the churches turn in. There's some built-in warnings and explanations and signals so that perhaps before it even gets to check out day on the 18th or whatever days y'all are doing that, you'll correct them yourself. So we have less going back to you. That's our hope. So I am particularly excited about that. So I just want to say that here's how we're going to go through this. I'm going to do a PowerPoint because if I, and then I'll go live through my site. Your individual church sites are not live yet. You'll be able to look at them but you can't enter information. Your tables are locked. So I want to go to a PowerPoint and we'll kind of do a live look at it. I'll kind of go over again some of the content changes and then Jan will be able to wrap up with any other. If you have questions along the way ask them. You don't have to say them but you have something to. So it sounds like a b-roll day. We really won't. If I start talking to you quickly raise your hand or something because that is one of my faults. I just start going and hoping to catch up. Ask Keith. And so I just want to say I really appreciate my husband Keith had coming because he's the fat person in our family and I didn't have to worry about it. And then Stephanie while she's Jody's new administrative assistant. She and our new tag team are going forward on the checkout day information statistics. So she'll be able to answer questions too if you call our office. If you bypass Jan always call Jan. But if you bypass Jan then you can come both of us to answer your questions. Also I want to thank Jan and Greg. When the general conference person that runs this Ezra statistics program worn area came September to our office. And Jan and Greg came up and helped train one of them there. So that means that we can get started. Again remind me this is the first time I've tried to teach it. And then this is the first year that we have been in the Ezra system. So it's entirely possible that you'll have some questions that I can't answer. And we'll just have to get back to you on that. So I appreciate your grace with all that. So here you go. If you want to pull out given three handouts. If the church user guide is the one you want to really focus on the most. There's one called pastor compensation worksheet and one called special report. Finding the title that's really hard. It's kind of right there in the top bit of the paper. But this church user guide is the one you want to keep close to you through this morning. And it has this website on that. You see that the middle there in blue Ezra.gcfa.org. That is where we're going to be entering our checkout information going forward. We won't go. So this will be confusing. You've got one site for apportionments, one site for compensation reports, and they have a different site for checkout statistics. Isn't that great? We like to make it easy on you. And all different passwords. Unless you make them the same. So anyway, so we each church has two possible logins. It's your GCFA number plus P for pastor. Then the GCFA number O for office. So you only have two. We didn't think you needed more than two. Otherwise it would be confusing. Who's entering what? You can share these. And then the initial password is in Texas. So that gets you into the site. Let me show you what the site looks like really fast. That's what you're going to get when you go to the Ezra.gcfa.org. And there you're going to log in with your GCFA number, either P if you're the pastor or O if you're office staff, and then initially in Texas. The good news for you is you will email all of us to you in December again. And also Stephanie and Jan have your GCFA number here. So if you can't remember that, even though I said six digit number, they can tell you what that is. Today you can log in, but you just can look at it and print out blank forms. You just can't enter information. And that's what it'll look like when you go in. I use Kani because I know Kani closed. And so I've gone in and set myself up with Kani for the moment. If, Vianna, you're doing Kani's checkout information, I don't know if she is or Jan's going to get it. Well, I can close the church. Basically, any kind of church closes. We have to fill out statistics next year and close their membership. So when you enter your GCFA number, P or O, and then in Texas, then it's going to send you to this page. And then that page is the... And you can see that on the front page of your church user guide. You see that? You can't see the screen that's right there. Then that's where you get to select where you enter your name. And we want you to enter your first name, last name, email address. Go ahead and enter phone numbers. Because someone in your district may need to call you at checkout time. We may need to call you when it hits the conference office level. And so go ahead and enter. We'll honestly let you out without the phone numbers, but we're sending you to phone numbers. That way we don't have to try and figure out how to get holy. Particularly if you're an office person that's filled it out. On our previous forms, I always went to the bottom to see who filled it out so that I would call that particular person because it's possible in some church that the pastor did not do it. And the pastor's the wrong person to talk to. So you can see that on page one of your church user guide. Okay. Get in finally to your stats home. There's going to be a print like report form or begin entering my stats. And I think if you look at pages three and five of your church user guide, yeah, it'll show you some of that. So if you either button, if you print, if you print blank report form with a big button, or you see on the right that there's a list of under the menu. There's Epicube, user's guide, print blank report forms and reports. If you pick print blank report form or go inside of the blank report form, this is what you're going to see. Only your church will be there. Then you can run the report. And it'll look. And so we're going to hand out some tables now that are in on Cainy. And Stephanie's going to bring us around. And this is a complete set of tables. So I've been in Cainy and I ran their reports. And I really recommend that this year since it's a different format, a different look, you'll have them hard copy in front of you of what you reported last year. It's the same as we did previous years. On the left column, there'll be whatever you reported in 2016 with the blanks in 2017. Are you with me so far? Okay. So we recommend, before you start any of your statistics, if you go ahead and print the blank report. And when you choose that, you'll get a little window that looks like that. You can see it on page three of your user guide with that window inside. I really think you're going to want to keep the church user guide with you. It's also online if you lose it or you need other people to have it. But on page three, it shows you an example of that page too. That page also. So what Stephanie handed out is what you would get for your church. That one is Cainy. Then I want to tell you one other thing. Can you see at the very top of that, very, very top of the screen where it says Home, Interstats, Reports, Submit Stats and Accounts? Can you see that bar at all? If not, I think if you look on page five or your church user guide, you see that menu bar there? They circle the red. Okay. The Submit Stats, that's when you're all done. You're going to do that. But you can click on it at any time and it's going to give you where you are. So you see that at Cainy, we haven't started. So as you do, like say you go back and forth, you work on it one day and then come back in the next day. You can go on Submit Stats. You can see where you are. If you have a pastor and office staff working on it, you can log in and see where we are, you know, see how far we've gotten and how far you need to go, that kind of thing. So we're not going to complete process of submitting because I don't know how to do it yet. So anyway, but that's a page that you'll do it on when you get to that point. Okay. All right. So now I want to look at the tables. So you've logged in. You've printed out your lane reports. Now you can pick the button that says, remember this one back here? That says start entering my stats. You can click that once. And here's what you're going to get. The default is table one. And if you look at, go to page six of your user guide. I'm not going to give you another view of that. That particular table is under interstats and then the tables. And that's one of those shows when you click it. If you look at these tables, do you see a blue box on the screen? Do you see on professing membership? I just don't know how much you can see. So there's a blue box right up there. Those are general instructions for the category. Under each line, there are instructions. It's either going to be under the line or there's that little tiny question mark to the right where you can hover over it. And if there are no instructions, it'll say no directions for this line. So all the instructions are built into the table. Does that make sense? Sometimes we give you like instructions sheets and all that. You don't necessarily need that because every line has its own built-in instructions, either under the line or on the question mark. When we do live demonstration, I'll show you that. I'll show you where those instructions are. On the right side, under the menu, you see those little colored boxes. Right here on the right bar, right bottom right. That's the key to all the little boxes that you're getting information in. The green one is vital signs, which is... I don't deal with that. Did y'all deal with vital signs in the cabinet sign? Well, yeah. It's your membership portion within the profession. Okay. Okay. So that's what they'll talk about. The orange is from the conference. Then we'll go over that again in a minute. Do you remember how it closed out when all the portions are due, January 11th by noon? And then the conference uploads to your table to the money that you sent to the conference, your portion months, your special offerings. When it's orange, that means you can't enter. You've got to wait for us to enter it. So you hit those boxes that are orange colored on table two. That means we get calls every year this one saying this. Okay. I can't enter a number of portions. And we're like, that's right. You can't because the conference enters that afternoon on January 11th. So by January 12th, all those numbers should be visible in your table two. Because we get the money, we count the money, and then we send it to the programmer to load up to your support. The blue is from an additional table talking about it. You see the box that has like the purple outline. It's the one white box in the middle of the purple outline. When you see the purple outline, that means that number goes toward your portion months figure. That special report used to be the golden ron sheet. Now we call it the special report. So the box outlined in purple is going to show up on the special report. And we'll talk about that in a minute or two. Then we're also, this is the, if it's that beige, there's an auto total line. Look at line one there, which is the membership. No local church can enter a number in that box. Line one of table one is what you reported at the end of 2016 as your membership. The former line nine. Here's the really fun. They renumbered all the lines. So if you were a person that paid attention to the line numbers like line nine was your membership, this year it's line four. So just forget line numbers for now and just go with the internet information. So anyway, if you see that kind of beige line, that means it's an auto total line and you can't enter anything but the computer is going to do that. Then you see a yellow warning and a red error. And that's one of the, we're going to talk about that. And on your, if you look at page seven and we church you to God, there's another social one to show you next. Okay. Now this is one of the main reasons I'm particularly excited about social to Ezra and perhaps all of the statisticians and district administrators who check the churches are excited is that if you in every line, not every line, but many lines have like a, either you got to get this one, there's got to be something in this line or you can't submit it. Or last year you reported 10 and this year you reported 100. And so percentage wise that is wrong. You know, somehow you had 10 in the Sunday School this year, last year and now you have 100 in the Sunday School this year. Yeah, that's true, but if not, then there's an error. And so what will pop up are these. Errors for red and warnings are yellow. So an error means that you can still save this and that's what I'm going to say. Every time you're working on these tables, save it before you leave it. Because it'll keep your information. We're worried about the errors and warnings when you hit submit. Because if you have any errors in red when you go to hit submit, you won't be able to submit. Literally you can't submit your statistics to us if you still have a red error. So that may mean that you didn't bother to go back and check and fix some things. Or there may be a real reason. Like, this is the example I gave some training which I think is a little weird. My step is now worship. Maybe for some reason your church flooded out all year and you didn't meet. So you literally don't have a worship member this year for some reason. So at that point you called Jan. She has a submit override. So if you happen to have a real error that you can't fix because it really is a situation of your local church this year, we do have a way to submit it without fixing that. We are not going to do that lightly, by the way. We're going to go back and see if we can't fix it, if there's not some information. And again, when I go through it on a live part, I'll show you about this too. So those are the red errors. And so here's the really great news. So I'm playing around with painting. I have the ability to erase the numbers I put in, but it would not erase the errors in the mornings. So anyway, so when they looked wide and they back and fixed them, I got rid of the errors in the mornings. So that's an interesting little thing I noticed that, and again, I don't think you all, I have to look, I don't think the church can just delete all their stats and start over and on, but I've got that ability, I think Jan does too, but didn't get rid of this particular part. Okay, so on the warning, oh, do I need a warning? Anyway, this is the warning section, I think. All right, so the first one's obstructive. You're recording nothing in the line that had an amount recorded for the prior year. 11, I have to know. It's probably a baptism. So here's the bill, maybe you didn't have any. So if you see the little enter, remember, right, little word and enter, the blue enter, click on that, and then the box in the middle under explanation lights up and you can write in your explanation and save it. So that will save us time, because remember when you go to checkout and Greg or never is looking at your material, they're going, well, this number, last year you had like 10 small groups this year, none. That will have maybe popped up here. You've already explained it, because I've explained it, and then we move on. So I'm hoping that saves us all time. You know, that we are self-monitoring with this program, and you've already explained all the things that don't match up, because things change from year to year, maybe, or here's another one we get a lot. There's been a pastor change, and you don't even know why that number was reported in the previous year. No one does. Like the pastor reported 1,000 people served by missions, and you can't figure out what it was, right? And so maybe it should have been 10, but we didn't catch it, or 100, or something like that, but it's flipped through all our checking. So this year you go, oh no, we don't buy people every week, or something, you know. So a warning may come up on that line, and then you have a lot of places to put an explanation. It is not one of those required lines, like worship attendance, and membership, and things like that. So you can just explain it. How does that sound to you all? Does that sound like that might make life easier on everybody? Yeah. I'm very helpful about that. Now, we did not put a warning on every line, because their experience at DCFA is when you're spending your whole day filling out these forms. So there'll be some that we're supposed to need to check carefully, because there may be some that still get that extra zero, or something that we'll need to go back to go, which is a real number. So I do have to say that this is the most exciting part for me about this new system. Okay. So one other thing I want to show you, I want to go back one slide. And this is one of those that, let's see if it's on your tree. It's not there. Do you know that famous EIN number we always ask for? Okay. And that's really how you pay taxes, right? That's the employee identification number. 75, yeah. Usually, amazingly, there's some others that don't start something by, but generally, it's the same by fashion. So, this tiny box up here, you won't be able to submit if that's blank. So just saying, dig it out. I'm giving you two months' warning. If it's not tainting, clearly doesn't have it, right? So we were, amazingly, do you see Bayplex that number? They want it. Most of the East District churches have submitted it, but, yeah. It won't work on the screen. I've got one. Thanks. I do have it, but we already tried that. Okay. So anyway, just saying, that's just a heads up for you lucky 20 people that came today. And you'll find that out if you try to submit at the end and it should give you, might have given me a warning on that, I can't remember. But just want to keep that in mind. Okay. All right. So you've worked on table one. You've saved it. You're not done. You may be done. So the dropdown is interstates tables. You do that little dropdown under tables. This is what the compensation looks like. So most of the churches just have a senior pastor. So do you see that on 41A? So you can look at that on the screen or you can find them on this table's handout. And here's why I want to point this out. Turns out GCFA wants a little more information from us. We have churches that get equitable compensation and that's when they need help from the conference to meet the minimum amount. If you have a full-time pastor at minimum salary and you need to help reach an end of salary, it's called equitable compensation. Every year in your conference, we go on what that will be the first to five years, six and a half, ten if you have more than one church, that kind of thing. Well, since that check comes from our office, we don't unfortunately want it. So you're making, this is going to be an extreme example of it, but if minimum salary is $47,000 and well, it might be extreme, the church would pay $40,000 and the conference is paying $7,000. The church always recorded just the $40,000. So GCFA didn't know about the other $7,000. Well, they need the full salary in order to make the whole geniunithous church come out correctly. You know, what are people being paid? So, this time, if you look at 41AA, can you see that one? On your, probably get better on page, page six of that. 41AA, anyway, specialize a tiny crank here. It says, amount received from Equal Compensation or other conference grants toward lead pastors based compensation. So, here's the deal. If you're in a church receiving Equal Comp, on your compensation worksheet, don't include that $7,000 you're getting for Equal Comp there, included here. And then GCFA will roll it up and count it on them, but we won't count it on your enforcements. So we had to correct ourselves this year for them. So we track it for GCFA, the general church, but we don't enforce you. Does that make sense? And then we also have some churches that get grants, like either there's a new church start or a campus ministry. So that line, if you look at 41BED, that's under associates. An associate cannot get Equal Comp, but an associate could get a grant to do certain ministries as part of their salary. Now, if you're getting a grant for the ministry itself, it doesn't go here, but it's part of the salary it does. And so that's a big change for us. We used to ask for that information on our worksheet, but it just never got reported to the general church. This way, they get reported. Does that make sense, honey? I really hope that each line's instructions will help us walk through it, and it'll be simple to understand. And again, you can see on this the purple line boxes. That means it's going to the fortunate figuring special report. Okay. I also am just going to say this, and then I'll say it again. While you're looking at page 6, you see 150, where it says total church expenses. Here's a huge change, and we can't change this. This is part of the Ezra. That total does not show up until I click a button at the conference office, and it says total. So you'll be filling out table two, and even after on January 12th, when all the redundancies come in, it still won't have a total. So, we're working. We can't change that part of the program. I'll be talking with Lauren at GCFA. How many times can we do the grand total? Can we do it, like, on the 12th, after everybody's entered, after you've seen your remittances? The problem with that is that maybe you're not three filling out table two. Maybe you don't start until January 15th on table two. And if I do the total on the 12th, it's still not going to let you add in what the rest of you put there. It's not up. The total is only done from the conference office. So, we'll be communicating through Jan about all that. That's new to us. We've always been able to see that, like, total as it got added in, which was formerly line 60, now line 50. And so, just don't sweat it. It's okay. There will be a total. I would prefer to be able to see this we go, but literally we can't change that back. So I just have to find out how many, but can I change the total every day starting January 18th? You know, until I turn it in. So, is that all right? Just to let you know, when you've got line 50, there's no total. That's right. There isn't. Because I haven't hit the button or whatever magic word is. Okay. Okay. So, we've done table one, table two, table three. Table three is the income, remember? Table one's people. Table two's money spent. Table three's money received. And there's some changes in it, but not many, and we'll talk about that in a minute. So it's just your standard table three where you're entering your offerings, your income from other sources, memorials, whatever it is that you have. And we'll come back to that. So, as in, this is another report that we asked UCFA to build. And that's the other part to be handed out, I gave you, called special report. And if you look at it, so this will be automatically filled out. This is what the conference office uses. They're only like 10 lines on it. You see that little with 10 box, 10 lines? Okay. This is all of these. If you read your journal, The Standing Worlds, we have a formula for figuring enforcement streets church. It's one-third membership, two-thirds certain financial categories. So remember, we've been talking all along that the box is outlined in purple for the ones that speak to the enforcement formulas. So they have automatically linked to this page. And then you can see, and those have not changed. To change the categories, our conference, CFNA would have to do that. And so we haven't changed any of the categories. Again, we've just changed how the format and where you're looking for it. But we did change one thing. Again, GCFA wants us to do math. So, all those numbers come in except line 10, the total, and you have to do the total yourself. And again, if you do that math, I think the box pops up and says, that's wrong. Here's the right number. But, and, so again, we'll look into this, see what happens next year, see if there's any reason to change that. Here's the reason I think it's kind of nice idea. We do have churches that seemingly never look at their special report. They don't notice that their financials lend up 10 grand, 100 grand, 200 grand, big churches, a million. And so, then they're surprised when they sit down with the DS at checkout, or when Jody Smith from our office comes back to him and says, hey, did you know your apportionment's going up 25%? Because somehow, someone at the open church failed to look at this report and study it. So, I kind of believe that even if we get automatic adding on the compensation worksheet, we may not add that in on the special report because I think it's to the church's best interest to actually read this report. And to do their own addition and see, like, here's painting, you know they're closed and that their financial peaks of apportionment's last year was $2,733. If somehow it says $6,733, it's important that that pastor and or staff person has looked at it and said, wait a minute, why did it go up so much? Maybe it's legit. Maybe your church is growing. You spend a lot more on staff or operating. Maybe you passed and gave a really great raise. You know, I mean, it's legit. It can go up and that could be a really healthy sign. The fact that you spent more is not a bad sign. It just means that you need to look at that because we do have mistakes and we do have churches call way past the time when we can change it. So that's the deal. Any money like numbers 28 through 36F, you won't be able to fill out. Those will all come from the conference. So any offerings you sent through particular special designation will show up. We'll send it. Now, honestly, this is one thing we were able to change. A lot of church, a lot of conferences don't let you see that. They keep those columns hidden until the very end. We're not comfortable with that because we might have actually done a bad mad live conference office. We might have actually not recorded offering correctly. We might, you know, happens earlier than this happened. And so we would prefer you to see that because then you call, $25,000 in for Harvey and it's only showing $235,000. So then you can call Carolyn Briles. Carolyn Briles at the conference office and she can work through that and figure that out. So you'd be able to see them once we upload them. Any money you sent. So if you didn't send it through us, like look at line 37. This has always been true. These lines, numbers have only changed not the destinations. Total amount given directly to United Methodist cause is not sent to the Texas Conference or to Rio Texas Conference or First Methodist Church Rock Board or whatever. That's pretty important because we didn't get it so we won't record it. So it just depends on where you send it and how it's sent. Does that make sense? So none of that's changed. That's just the way it is. Okay. So I want to, we really are going to get that. After you do again remember the submit button and you can see there that it gives you the red warning that your PIN, your save PIN is invalid because it only has X this for example. So it'll give you that and it gives you again, this doesn't show ready to submit because literally I'm a little leery filling out anybody's reports. I'm going to unlock them and everybody can unlock so we'll all learn together on this one. And then one more thing that's available to you online, if you see again this sidebar under menu where it says reports, you select that. These are available to you. So this church user guide you can get notes on church membership which we'll get for you in a minute actually, printable line directions, individual reports, spreadsheets. So you can even select your own church warning report. So maybe you want to just click on that and say where are all my warnings? You know I've forgotten to do table three so you can get a list of them. So I think that just don't be afraid to click on things. When I first started and computers was a little afraid if I click on this it will like explode, right? Or while I do something I can't change. That's not possible. Even if you put in something you think is terrible and you can't fix it you can call Jean and or me and we can do some overrides I think. So or help you through it. So we're also asking for grace this year because it's new justice. So what I'm going to do is kind of go live, is that okay? And show you and I have to go in it's me so you can see things that you don't have but but I think it'll happen. Okay. Go. That's good. Yeah, exactly. This is why I'm paying Keith. Thank you. And there you go. So I'm going to log in it's me. There you go. Let's open this right. Haven't started which is great. And I'm actually have Kani's information pulled up and you see the mornings I can't get rid of. Go ahead and enter some bad information if that's okay. Can you see it all? You make it bigger. I'm going to try that. Is that better? Maybe you make it bigger. Okay. So I want to point out this. Look at 2A. Right. As you know there were 11 members from Kani in the 2016 that entered the line and I can't change it. 2A and 2B has been changed. 2A is always a professional faith. While here's a little problem we have with some of our clergy they think if you have a confirmation class and they join where do you put them? They're a professional faith. So the general church and in fact last year I just did another email again per the bishop's direction to all the church was saying look at your professions of faith. Where's your confirmation class? Not every church has but a lot of them have. Okay. So now 2B 2A 2B 2A is received this year on professional faith other than confirmation. So anybody on professional faith that comes into your church goes there. If you have a confirmation class and they join that number goes into B. Simple, right? So now we've taken out the guesswork on that. Confirmation class goes there. So let's pretend Kani had a confirmation class. And let's go down here and we'll keep the same numbers. So now it's on and I've added up to 12. See the purple box around 12? That means that number's gone to the special report. Right. So then as always we do the and then the blue box there that explains the different rationales behind all the ethnicity. So we'll just leave it at 10. You know that there are 12 members but now I didn't make I didn't change the total membership. I left it at 10, right? And then male and female I left it at 10 at 5 and 5 and totaled my 10. So then I could I'm just going to forget to do this. Okay. I forgot to do 7. And then 8's baptism is official. Okay. So number, you know this isn't going to let you out of if you so this we may have an override situation in this band. I kind of think that and we'll live into this you know the red errors that came up that won't let you submit. Like one of was 111 I hadn't been anybody 11. These are it's possible your church has no Sunday school or small groups. Right. So you wouldn't even enter in there. And so you'll need to deal with jam and nor eye about that because it's that's where you're going to red error that's not going to let you submit. So there the default is that you have people going to classes as a system but you might actually have something like that. So anyway I pre-filled some of that out. I'm going to go down to the new change and mission engagement. All right. You see line 21 and if you can't see that you can read it on the handout. It's the total number of community ministries are outreach justice and mercy offered by this local church. So so you put in let's pretend painted three different ministries. So the general church has four main goals one is related to poverty and the other is related to health and I don't remember the other two like a major start or something else. Remember they had those four overarching goals for a couple of quadrants. So now they want to collect how many of these outreach ministries that you put in 21 apply are health related and how many are for the poor. So you could these don't add anything else. So if you did three ministries and you think all of them do with both health and the poor you could put three in both of them. Okay, so so you look at that individual ministry so maybe it's feeding the hungry and so that's for the poor but you also had a blood mill there or you had a nurse there or something you know to check the blood pressure. So so what the church is collecting is how many ministries do you get for outreach justice and mercy and then how many of them were for health or the poor. Maybe none of them were. You know maybe you had a revive hold that you tried to get people to come so those can be zeroes too but I just want to say that you can have everything you did in both you can have split map you can have none but that's they're trying to collect the targeted ministry where churches are doing for the poor and for and related to also health so that makes sense. Okay, so that's a big change on that part. Okay, so I'm going to save it and it's going to it's not accurate please check the barriers and say any changes. Okay, so I'm going to go back to the top at the very top of the page. There you go. Not looking good for surely filling out pain. So it says line seven is a required field that was the worship that had zero so I go go back and face it right and then I go away. The ethnicity line must equal 12 and I'll get 10 in there so I forgot to put two in Native American or whatever and then the total gender line is wrong. There are 12 people supposedly but only 10. So those are flexible right? I mean so you go back fix that in the red and go away. All right, so here's an example then explanation I did. I last year it was zero but I said oh we added Sunday School class. So my problem is I don't know what 5D is and something like 5D is I don't remember 10 because I don't remember those. It was the Native American? Okay, so last year so you say okay so I'm going to say well this person left the church. There you go. Updated. So when you so when you I still have to correct I only have 10 people right? So I go back down here and I'm going to correct that so I go away. So I'm going to say oh actually they're all like it changes it. I'm not going to correct them all right now so okay. I don't think you're all there. Again that tells me about errors so the thing is the drop down is going to tell you that you need to go back and check yourself. So one of my errors went away because I corrected the racial makeup of the church and then because it 5D had an amount but this year it doesn't I just do an explanation. So does that make sense to you? Okay so again not all 23 lines on this page are going to give you a warning or an error we didn't set it up that way but there are some that didn't. Okay. So that's table one. So now I'm going to go to the compensation worksheet and it says if you leave this page and then not click save the information interval will not be saved. Okay so you may have to double check see if it's saved. Okay. Then you're to table the worksheet. Is that acceptable? While we're here can I show you one thing? You see in the blue box at the top of course it says verified on the right there's a checkbox. So once it gets checked it's going to list the name of the person that checked it and then the next person that checks it. So Greg checks it first his name's there Jan checks it again then her name's there I check it then my name's there. So it's still the last person that checked it. So I just want to give you that little information. And this is the compensation form that's not finished yet. So that's where you put in the base salary the housing and I know it's not fixed because it really I did the addition it is 42,356 but the program isn't ready because it keeps saying it should be 3200. So something's wrong with the program they haven't finished it. But again that's what I mean you do the math but the program still didn't say hey that was wrong here's the real number so you go back and check it. So does that make sense and then again it's not linked yet so when I leave it it's not going to show up in table two. So now we're in table two but here's the one thing I want to show you the most if I lost you yet or if I lost you then a favor. We always have asked you to enter the market value of your buildings and land right? And we rarely go back and say is that right because you know maybe you had to do a price hold maybe you didn't make any last years but then we get to line 25 where it's market value of your money this year they've changed it so they liquid assets because we always you know Jan if you say I have 24,000 dollars in 2016 and this year I have 24,000 Jan's going to call you or I'm going to call you and say how's that possible? Did you really have the exact same amount of money in 2016 and 2017 just by fluke and nature it all came out the same we think you copy the same number there and it didn't really look good to books that's what we really think that's you know I have had a pastor in my history say that is the right number and that's why I had to go put in the notes he says it's the right number okay so so they try to make it clear enter the SMA market value cash, stocks, bonds, trust securities, investments including a balance loan to the church including money raised or donated health or future billing programs or any other special purposes and all property and other investment funds included elsewhere including any liquid reserve funds in this line so getting money the church has somewhere in savings and your checking literally do not believe it will match $2,132 the last year you know I'm sorry and that sounds cynical but we've done it so just keep us from calling you go get your checkbook from your treasurer and say how much money do we have December 31st you know how much money is in savings how much you know just find it write it down otherwise you have to do it anyway so so just want to give you that little heads up so they try to make it clear and I'll talk about this line again memorize line 25 because we get to table 3 and we'll talk about it again and then again we talked about again over and over the money that the orange boxes we're going to fit in and then the purple the lines purple are going to special report page again there are instructions in the blue see how there are instructions under each line that's why I talked about the beginning of the time that the instructions are there in here so we're not going to have a separate piece of paper the church user's guide tells you how to use ISRA but the information here should be pretty clear and Lauren really tried to make it totally clear and here down to line 50 remember line 50 it's orange that means no one can fill in but the conference office and again we'll keep you apprised and how often we can do that I'm really hoping we can do it every day but if not you'll never know the total and it won't be able to compare okay I know I'm going to leave something out but where about then okay so now you can see that when I worked on it earlier again I had the error lines I had explanation lines there that I'm going to have to fill in and explain that shouldn't take a long time usually it may be that you go I don't know either alright so here we go in table 3 church user's guide again it's going to give you the note that you can leave this page and don't click now we're at church income and I want to talk about a couple of things in here if you say and then you want to change something yeah you can you can change anything until you submit it and once it's submitted you're locked out but then you can still call Jan and think after you look say you the person that works ahead instead of night before and so you go you can call Jan and say hey we just figured out what we left this out or I just got some more information can you unlock it for me and then you go back and fix it so you can keep working until you do the submit process and then at that point after you submit we can unlock it so you can fix it or we can fix it for you too a lot of times we'll fix it for you okay line 52 is money or Steve put in your budget they I ask I would invite you to read every one of these lines to be really clear some of the things they've tried to make really clear let me get my notes all of this money that you're recording in 52 right there is money you use toward your budget like to pay your bills right to pay for your programs to pay your pastor so say you've got money back in line 25 remember life 25 in savings and you know you needed that you're going to include that in section 52 I'm going to tell you what line that is 52d alright so see that amounts are seen from interest in dividends and or transfer from liquid assets remember life 25 was liquid assets so the 5,000 you use to make your $100,000 budget that you took out of 25 put here so would you take 5,000 out in line 25 then would you reduce it by that yes that would be your budget reported on 52d but reduce your liquid assets on 25 by that amount does that make sense so it's like showing them an income and it came out of all your savings or dividends or something reduce it by that amount so they're really trying to be clear at GCFA that's kind of how these two tables work you know that's why in particular if we get a church that did that but then they're number one line 25 the exact savings 2016 that they used over here so they're yeah there's 25,000 out of your savings do you want to give them yes if you're using your actual year-end numbers yes but what problem that you're just trying to say is in the past we've compared 135 and those numbers didn't match up they were free didn't have a place so now it does and we're not going to expect $1 because we're not doing church so maybe you took $5,000 in here but you have to get $10,000 that came in but you should report down another line but just say we'll talk about that so say you sold the church something not the whole church the Parsonage or a side building you had or maybe a rental property you sold alright so you sell it if you're using part of it again you got another $5,000 shortage that you need to pay your bills here but the rest of it goes down in line 53C so you sold it for $100,000 you used $5,000 to offset your budget needs this year but the other $95 you put over here and funds from sources and projects including sell buildings so that $95 should show up in line what? $25 because that's more income so that's what I mean we're going to look at line 25 and have it match up with the money you spent on the budget it's just if you sell a building now that money if you're using part of it for expenses to make it for the end of the year it shows up in 52 somewhere and the rest of it shows up here in 53 so this is not much different than the past it's just clear this is what we should have always been doing they just detailed it out so you will if you don't sell a church no problem you know if you're not selling anything you don't have to if you don't take in enough offerings or whatever if you find your year and you're dipping in the savings or dividends or whatever you need to show that up here on liquid assets on line 52 D so those are the main things to point out and again if you get some memorials here for this year where's the memorial line on 53B you see how the hovering is giving the instructions over and over again if you get 53B and get memorials again it tells you total market value assets to be reflected in lines 24, 25 so if you had $6,000 memorials this day you report it here this year but also included in somehow line 25 as part of your assets so basically table 3 is trying to be clear about driving us to report what we get accurately and then make sure we're reporting it accurately on table 2 as many that we have it's not why it's so hot that it's close to that okay so let me just show you the special report real fast and again if I entered any figures and they were wrong it would give me warnings and errors and then here's the special report and all those numbers will come in it says do you have to do the math come on it says data will save with errors and here it is the calculated value is actually 0 but I've been in $30,000 so anyway those are all the tables see if I've looked at any other factors and I'll turn over to Jen I want to make you let me go to table 1 on your worship attendance they've now made a line for online worship so if you so say you have online worship and it describes what that means enter that if you can actually document your average online worship attendance if in the past you've done that include you used to include it in line 7 your actual membership attendance put it there too because these two lines do not add the church is now trying to see what the online worship presence is nationwide or worldwide so if you have that and it fits any of that definition there put another in there if you used to count it as part of your weekly worship attendance continue to count it there too because 7A will not add to 7 in anybody's books if that makes sense so if you've gone out and reported reported both places if you wanted to count that way also Stephanie was handing out there's notes on church but one of the things we have trouble with is figuring out if the person is a constituent if they're a baptized member a professing member an affiliate so this is the general church's definition of that if you're having trouble figuring out what your church members are that's it and then there's an FAQ that Stephanie's handing out that you can look at that gives you more information there okay Gina do you want to do any follow-up here or are there any other questions on like that or are you totally breaking it I think that when you get in here and do it it actually makes sense it is going to give you warnings or errors the same information you've been collecting for years it's just probably lined out better than explanation