Bob Santy

Executive Pastor of Operations at Sunridge Community Church in Temecula, CA, an independent, non-denominational church that is passionate about it's mission of helping people find and follow Jesus.

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Church Budgeting 103 E – Building the Exempt Employee Compensation Projection

January 14, 2023

The Church Budgeting basics series provides the basic steps to demystify an essential part of operating the church - the budget. Lesson 103 covered how to project upcoming annual expenses. While lesson 103 provided steps to project ongoing costs, it also covered how to estimate costs for the new …

Church Budgeting 103 – Building the Expenses Projection

January 13, 2023

Lesson 101 of the Church Budgeting basics series provided an overview of integrating the goals and focus of the upcoming fiscal year while remaining rooted in the church's mission and vision. This process allows the stakeholders to dream and strategize how best to accomplish the goals and …

Church Budgeting 102 – Building the Projected Income

January 6, 2023

Session 101 of Church Budgeting blasted the myth that budgets are restrictive and faithless by showing that the first step in crafting a church budget requires seeking God's direction for the upcoming year. Then, after sharing the focus and goals with the church's leaders, a good process allows time …

Church Budgeting 101 – Where To Begin

January 6, 2023

The term budget is often divisive. For some, it immediately evokes certain words like restrictive, limiting, confining, rigid, and even faithless. For others, the term church budget says safety, planning, freedom, and stewardship, or for the less churched, biblical management of God's money. When it …

Generating End-of-Year Income for the Church Budget

December 23, 2022

While not a mystery, it is a universal truth that generating revenue is essential for all organizations to accomplish their mission. During my tenure in the IT department at a leading golf manufacturer, there was a schedule to constantly and strategically introduce new product lines of clubs. In …

4 Tips to a Thriving Church Budget

December 23, 2022

Recently my wife and I went to a restaurant for dinner. We don't go out as often as we used to, and I found myself analyzing the situation more than usual. My wife, noticing my far-off gaze, asked what I was thinking about. I told her I counted seven servers, three hosts, four bussers, and I bet …