Money for your library vs the size of your congregation

[J. Theodore Anderson]

If you have 300 members in your congregation do you have a budget of at least $300.00? If you have 2,500 members in your congregation do you have a budget of at least $2,500.00? In the public schools budgets for classrooms are usually based on so many dollars per student. Perhaps budgets in congregational libaries ought to have a minimal base budget based on the number of members in the congregation. The question is could members of your congregation afford to give $1.00 per year to support your library. I'm wondering if there are any churches in State College, Pennsylvania that have a church library -- my brother lives there and says whenever Penn State plays a home football game the MINIMAL price for a seat in the stadium is $250.00 and there are NO SEATS VACANT. (I wonder how the churches do the next day? I doubt if every pew space has a parishioner who shells out $250 for a seat in the sanctuary. Many in these congregations could probably afford EVEN MORE than $1.00 per year to support the library. Should the library get together a football team to play for money?

Not a sermon, just a thought.

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