If you have ever stepped foot on a golf course, you know there are rules that govern the game. For beginners, it feels like there are a lot of rules, but the truth is there are not that many. In 1744 there were 13 rules established for the game of golf, and currently, there are no more than 34 …
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Church Budget Categories – Ministries
Churches "do" a lot - from evangelism to worship services to community outreach to supporting missionaries. Churches own property, pay bills, and employ people. But, your church does not exist to do any of those things. What a church does and how it does it are examples of methods to accomplish the …
Church Budget Categories – Operations
Here is a fun experiment for churches, run all Sunday morning services without bulletins, note sheets, check-in stations, WiFi, or online giving. You can imagine the results without sabotaging your church with this experiment - chaos would reign. It would not provide the ideal environment or …
Church Budget Categories – Facilities
Maybe it is just me, but I feel a lot of pressure when building the church budget each year. Churches, like all non-profits, depend primarily on donations to carry out their mission. Every dollar must be accounted for and utilized to the fullest. And that is exactly what a budget does; it brings …
Church Budgeting Guidelines
When it comes to indoor plants, it seems that I have a brown thumb. I'm not proud of this, but every single plant in my office has died. The poor things never make it more than six months. When I moved into my new office, a coworker helped me and purchased a fiddle-leaf fig plant. It looked so good …
Why You Should Consider Making a Zero-Based Church Budget
Before being called into full-time ministry in 2006, I was part of the first wave of computer tech support. In those days, tech support needed to cover hardware basics, like setting the dip switches on a modem (can you hear the screeching sound of a successful connection?). And answering software …