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 …
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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 …
Church Budget: Living Document or Stone Tablet
I'm under the weather. The ball is in your court. Sit tight. They're pulling your leg. The writing is on the wall. I'm sure you have used or heard someone say something like this. These idioms are phrases where the meaning is not directly related to the words used, like "It's written in stone." This …
Why Church Budgets Are Not Based on Tithing
I live in a town where traffic is mostly awful. It can take up to 45 minutes to get home from work - I only work 7 miles from home. Beyond the sheer number of drivers on the road during peak commute times, part of the problem is that the signal lights need to be synchronized to keep traffic moving …
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 …
