Your staff will no doubt be using printers in the office. (Although there are some who have gone paperless, most Church offices still rely on some paper.) Should these printers be available on Sundays for volunteers to use? Suppose a Small Group Leader needs a few pages printed for handouts to the group. Should the Church make that available? There is a cost associated with each page that is printed. It includes:

• Cost of the printer divided by the number of pages it will print over it’s lifetime
• Cost of the ink or toner used
• Cost of the paper that is printed upon.
• Electricity cost

Since the Church Staff is charged with being good stewards of the office equipment they use, perhaps some limits should be set. For example, anyone can print up to 10 pages on Sundays; but no more. That way, the paper does last until the end of the year. And the staff aren’t surprised on Monday mornings when they find the printer out of paper.