- NEXTRECORD - in determining the amount of funding necessary to support their foreign ministry needs. Deputational missionaries, however, are not required to comply with the exact figures in the budget so long as they obtain adequate funding for their ministry. Deputational missionaries are required to file with the DFM monthly "deputational reports" that detail the offerings received and the expenses incurred by the missionary. Along with the deputational report, missionaries forward the net cash offerings and receipts verifying the offerings and expenses. Additionally, during their deputational ministry, missionaries prepare a field budget approximating the amount of mission-related expenses they will incur in the foreign field. Once a missionary departs for the foreign field, the DFM advances funds to the missionary from his or her DFM missionary account to cover the anticipated mission expenses. Missionaries in the foreign field are required to file quarterly field reports with the DFM explaining how the budget advances were spent. During both deputational and foreign field ministry, the DFM records the reported expenses and the pledges received on behalf of the missionaries and mails monthly disbursement statements to each missionary detailing the missionaries' total pledged support and expenses. Missionaries are free to resign at any time. However, missionaries are not entitled to the balance of their DFM account upon resignation. Rather, a resigning missionary may reallocatePage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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