Six Key Points on Vision Crafting Your Church Budget
How do you avoid an emotionless presentation? You make your appeal appealing! Not everyone in your church has reached their fullest giving potential. Those new to the faith or new to your church need inspirational education about where the money you are asking for actually goes. Our challenge is to explain something that seems so […]
Coach’s 2023 Budget Training Camp
Football season is just around the corner, and NFL teams are heading to their training camps in preparation for a winning season. The work they do in July/August will pave the way for success or failure once the season begins. At the same time, churches all over America are beginning their preparations for their budget […]
Three Leadership Landmines That Can Derail Your Budget
“The Senior Pastor won’t be in the meeting.” That was the reply a lay leader shared with me once when his church wanted my help. I replied that the meeting would be worthless unless the pastor showed up. That wasn’t the answer they were looking for, and I never heard from the church again. You […]
From the Desk of Our Executive Director
We’re back! I pray you had a wonderful 4th of July. We took the week off, but we are back with another exciting issue of the Stewardship Journal. In this edition, we are focusing on budget planning. For many of our churches, now is the time they begin budget planning for the new year. Our […]