Meet David Johnson - St. Luke's Treasurer

​I am serving on the St. Luke’s council as Treasurer. My wife Mary and I have been members of St. Luke’s since 1987 and were married here in 1988. While we were preparing to be married, we knew that we would be settling in Bloomington and began searching for a church home. We visited St. Luke’s and found a welcoming and supportive community of believers. That is still true today and we have been here ever since.

Over the years, my faith journey here has involved participating in more bible studies and adult education events than you can shake a stick at. I have also had the opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of ministry activities. Those include everything from Habitat for Humanity to Confirmation mentoring and even babysitting a cantankerous FM transmitter during our pandemic parking lot worship services. These days you will often find me back in the corner, running the live stream of our worship services. All of those study and ministry activities have played an important role in my own faith formation.

That is also true of serving on the church council. When I was asked by the Executive committee if I would consider coming back as Treasurer, I realized that there was a need that I could meet, and here I am.

The duties of the Treasurer include some routine tasks like reporting the financial status of the church to the council every month and leading the effort to build an annual budget. There are also some ad-hoc projects as many new ministry ideas or service projects have a financial component. That said, I believe that the most important duties of the Treasurer are to help the council be the best stewards we can be of the funds entrusted to us by the members of this congregation, and to report the financial condition of the church as accurately and transparently as possible.

I will do the very best that I can to accomplish both of those duties.