Dear Pastor,
We are ready to start the 2025 Statistical Tables collection! The Tables are now open to you and your church for 2025.
The Book of Discipline 2020|2024 ¶340 calls elders and licensed pastors to provide (in the context of their appointment to a local church) the Word, the sacraments, the ordering of the church, and service to the church. Part of ordering the church includes a duty to “care for all church records … and any other reports submitted by the local church to the annual conference for use in apportioning costs back to the church.” (¶340.2.(c)(2)(f). These reports for the California-Pacific Conference are the statistical collection also known as “Tables” or “Stats”. Apportionment costs for the local congregation are calculated from data collected during this process.
The Book of Discipline further requires that these reports be submitted to the annual conference (and then on to the denomination) “no later than 30 days following the close of the calendar year” (¶606.7). This allows time for the annual conference and the General Council on Finance & Administration (GCFA) to review submissions prior to use of the data by the conference or denomination. For 2025 statistics, the Conference Statistician has set the due date as Tuesday, February 3, 2026, to account for the New Year’s holiday.
Statistical tables are complicated, but there are no changes from previous years, except for some wording. You can and should call upon your Church Treasurer, Membership Secretary, and Financial Secretary to assist you in fulfilling this responsibility to The United Methodist Church. Indeed, these individuals or another staff member in your church may have completed this task on behalf of your congregation previously.
For 2025, we will continue to look closely at church annual operating expenses and annual operating income. Be sure your congregation is tracking which expenses and income are annual (expected every year) and which are long-term (extend over multiple years).
Here are some ways you and your congregation can get help if you have questions.
- For additional instructions, go to http://www.calpacumc.org/StatsInstructions2025.
- For a blank report with the questions, go to http://www.calpacumc.org/StatsBlankReport2025.
- Come to a Statistics Learning Lab.
- Register for Monday, January 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM PST (4:30 PM HST) (Register here)
- Register for Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM PST (8:00 AM HST) (Register here)
- Come to the Conference Statistician’s Office Hours.
- Join the open Zoom call at http://www.calpacumc.org/statsofficehours2025
- Tuesdays 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM PST (12:30 PM – 2:00 PM HST) on January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026, and February 3, 2026.
- Some assistance is provided by GCFA in Spanish and Korean, although the questions may not line up to the Cal-Pac questions exactly. We have customized some questions.
- 한국어로 지원 – http://www.calpacumc.org/statsinstructionskorean
- ayuda en idioma español – http://www.calpacumc.org/statsinstructionsspanish
- The Conference Statistician is Jennifer Gaylord. For questions, contact Jennifer at jgaylord@calpacumc.org or (626) 568-7363.
- The District Statisticians are
- East District: Karen Britten at eastdistrictunion@gmail.com
- East District: Dany Caguin at eastdistrict@calpacumc.org
- Hawaii District: Sonya Lee at hawaiidistrict@calpacumc.org
- North District: Jan Newton at northdistrict@calpacumc.org
- South District: Emilie Penuelas at southdistrict@calpacumc.org
- West District: Polly Sablan as westdistrict@calpacumc.org
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you and your loved ones as we enter these holy weeks of December and January – and as we close out this year of 2025 and begin anew.
Jennifer Gaylord, Conference Statistician
