I remember picking a movie at Block Buster Video on a Friday night, and everyone in town was trying to get the latest release on VHS before they ran out of the few copies they had on hand. Fast forward a few years, and companies like Netflix figured out a way to capitalize on streaming services, but …
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Church Budget Checklist Essentials
Our church has a very low staff turnover rate. Over the past 17 years, we've only had three bookkeepers, each serving at least five years. Our current bookkeeper is terrific and is preparing to take a two-week vacation. While she built a team of volunteers to take care of many of the tasks in her …
Top 8 Tips for Church Budgeting
Regardless of your personal thoughts on if we are living in a post-Christian America or not, operating a church in today's economy and politically charged climate is challenging. Inflation is still plaguing many Americans, with a 12-month percentage change of 6.4% in January 2023, biting into …
Communicating The Church Budget
Recently a valued and dedicated volunteer approached me moments before a church service and asked me why we had not mentioned an upcoming co-ed Bible study. I was taken aback by the comment because we promoted the study on social media, the website, the weekly email to the congregation, the TVs in …
Session 105 – Finalize the Church Budget
Building a church budget is a long journey filled with hopes and dreams of creative and new ways to accomplish the church's mission, vision, and goals for the upcoming year. In many instances, the entire process can take up to five months. As taught in Session 101, the church budget starts by …
Church Budgeting 104 – Comparing and Adjusting the Projected Income to Expenses
Church budgeting Session 101 provided a solid foundation for creating the annual church budget. It supplied a working definition that a church budget is a cash flow plan to maximize the finances God entrusted to the church to accomplish the mission. The actionable items in Session 101 were …