2006 Annual Fellowship Committee Reports

Annual Report of the Finance Committee

May 30, 2006

Report of the Finance Committee

The Finance committee is fired up, really fired up! And we are asking for
your support as volunteers and financially. We are working on multiple
fronts to improve the broad-based support from the readership. Various
Finance committee members and adjunct members are heading up specialized
tasks and following them through to completion. So expect a friendly phone
call asking for your support.

Under the direction of Christilyn Biek, a group composed of finance and
adjunct finance members are calling all the members of The Urantia Book
Fellowship to find out their willingness to support the Fellowship's efforts
to get the revelation out to the world. They are emphasizing the importance
of the monthly auto-debit contributions which have grown nicely this year.
A new campaign is underway to get 1,000 donors donating $20 or more a month
in the next few years. Sooner if possible.

Besides asking for more support, Don Green, Gerald Pando, Ken Raveill and
Lila Dogim have called donors from last year and this year, thanking them
for their generous support and hearing what they have to say about
furthering the revelation. Don Green is working with John Hay, Treasurer,
in sending out a special solicitation letter to all members with a new free
DVD that has the complete audio version of The Urantia Book, read by Merritt
Horn, with an enclosed solicitation request and return donor envelope.

Ken Raveill has been diligently working on investing a percentage of our
cash assets into mutual funds with oversight by the Treasurer. This has
resulted in a high rate of return on our investment with a moderate/low
risk. The Finance committee worked and recommended an Investment Policy
that was passed this year by the EC. This policy gives guidelines and
criteria for our investing strategy and a review process.

The Finance committee has worked on various marketing ideas to created a
friendlier approach to our solicitation efforts. A revised return donor
envelope was created by Ken Raveill and Robert Burns worked on a nicer
looking auto response for on-line donations, and various committee members
have worked on multiple solicitation requests and articles.

Robert Burns has worked closely with John Hales, Paula Thomson, David Kantor
and Gloriann Harris to create an efficient Point of Sale system. This
system will integrate into the Fellowship's database and accounting package,
allowing for a more effective and efficient approach to our office
procedures and protocols. This system will be in effect before the 3rd
quarter of 2006. Paula and Robert are working on a procedures manual for
all office administration, with an estimated completion by the end of the
year.

All these efforts are to support The Fellowship growing financial needs. We
need more dedicated volunteers and many more financial supporters as the
revelation grows throughout the world. The first 50 years of the revelation
has past and we are now in the exciting "next 50 years". The revelation is
growing, but we are still but a small band of brothers and sisters serving
to get the revelation to the billions of fellow mortals who would benefit by
the knowledge of the revelation.

Please feel free to contact me with questions, ideas, hopes, or a donation.
I can be reached at snickburns@aol.com, or work number at 949 760- 9335 ext
5303, or at home at 949 222-1053. I am always excited to talk to other
readers, hear what you have to say and share your dreams for this epochal
revelation.

And think about this...if not us, who?

The Finance Committee
Robert Burns – Chair,
Committee members - Christilyn Biek, Don Green, Gerald Pando, Ken Raveill
Adjunct members - Lila Dogim, Alexandra Horn, Lenny Cowles