Franklin Lakes United Methodist Church

John Wesley said, "Go to those who need you and to those who need you most." Through donations of money, gifts, and talents, the Franklin Lakes United Methodist Church is meeting Wesley’s commitment to our congregation, our community, and United Methodist Church (UMC) and its national and global ministries.

Our church participates in a multitude of international, national, and local service programs through a variety of UMC-designated funds, such as World Service (in the benevolences and blue envelopes in our offering envelopes), our Greater NJ Conference apportioned benevolences (part of our yearly budget), our local nonapportioned benevolences (which vary each year in our annual budget), and our own fund-raising drives conducted during the year by our Missions/Outreach Committee.

We believe that God’s work can be done by encouraging and challenging members to Christian stewardship of money, time, and talent, and developing effective ways of ensuring offerings are distributed to organization’s that do God’s work.

Our church engages in unified missions giving through our World Service Support and our apportioned Greater NJ Conference benevolences. This money supports missionaries in over 100 countries, loans to UMC ministry students, growth of new churches, outreach programs within our Conference, and programs that we can utilize such as Aldersgate Center, the United Methodist conference and retreat center.

During our budget-setting process, our committee also selects a wider range of local programs that provide food, shelter, counseling, medical and other types of help to those in need through our nonapportioned benevolences.

Our church engages in unified missions giving through our World Service Support and our apportioned Greater NJ Conference benevolences. This money supports missionaries in over 100 countries, loans to UMC ministry students, growth of new churches, outreach programs within our Conference, and programs that we can utilize such as Aldersgate Center, the United Methodist conference and retreat center.