Integrity and Stewardship

As the business administrator at Lakeside I take the responsibility of stewardship very seriously. It would be easy to assume that people would trust me or my motives when something doesn't look just right, but it would be wrong for me to do that. In many discussions I will say that we need to do things in such a way that they would satisfy someone who is mad at us. This isn't to say that everyone will agree with every spending priority, but that the processes and the accounting would reach a level that even the mad person would be satisfied with. We are beginning the process of our financial review of 2007 and in a few months it will be available to the membership. By bringing in an outside firm to look at our procedures and our accounting, we have the opportunity to offer proof of the integrity of our systems. These annual reviews are expensive, but they help us to reach the mandate of II Corinthians 8:21 "For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men."