Reimbursements for purchases made as a Reliant Employee during your time at a summer program or event

What can be Reimbursed During My Time at a summer program?

Employees can reimburse through the MTD account they are responsible for (on a normal reimbursement form) travel to and from the Reliant summer program (as long as the location of the program is over 100 miles from where you live). These travel expenses could include a flight out to LT, mileage to LT that is over 100 miles one-way, travel meals along the way, tolls, etc.  


The event fund is not used to reimburse travel to or from the event for employees or event directors attending the program. Employees may choose to reimburse travel from the account from which they are responsible for when it is a ministry-related expense. See Travel for more details. (See also LT Subsidies.)

Speaker travel is reimbursable using an event fund, but typically a speaker is given honorarium to then use the account for which they are responsible for to reimburse event travel. See Speaker And Church/Ministry Honorariums for Events for more details.


Also reimbursable during the employees' time at the event are typical MTD ministry purchases… Stamps, envelopes, prayer letter printing, donor meals, etc. Some examples with ministry purposes are listed below.


Items that can not be reimbursed to employees after arriving at the Reliant Summer Program include:


If you need to purchase supplies for the specific summer program, you would typically reimburse those through event advance reimbursement directly the event finance administrator or if the event if not using event advances then you would reimburse it using the event fund.  See Event Advance Purchases by Field Staff and Reimbursements for the Event Fund for details. 


Examples with Ministry Purposes: 

Mileage Driving to and from LT:

Driving out to Colorado LT in Estes Park, CO to serve in my role as main worship leader for the summer program. This is my mileage for intially going out to LT.

Driving out to Colorado LT in Estes Park, CO, to serve as my role in set-up team. I have to drive back and forth between the LT location and my home three times to help set-up the event including housing logistics and stage/music set-up.

Travel Meals driving to and from LT:Driving from my home to Colorado LT, dinner stop along the way. This lists my cost of food for this dinner. The portion that was for my spouse and kids, is listed in the Taxable section.
MTD Meal while at LT location:Met with John Smith, a current donor, while at my LT location in Colorado. I updated him on my campus ministry, along with how LT is going here in Colorado. I got to update him on what activities we are doing at LT.
Supplies for LT (asked to purchase by Director):Purchased flashlights, as requested by my Colorado LT Director, for part of a team-building and encouraging game we played at night with the participants.