Hi there. Welcome back. We’re continuing on in the 3 part series “How to Prepare your Church for a Loan“. In part 1, we looked at the Statement of Financial […]

So your church is growing and needs to expand. Chances are your church needs to borrow money. The lender needs to make sure your church can repay what it borrows […]

Does your church need to have cash reserves? Rest assured. It does. 5 Reasons Why: 1. To Sustain the Present 2. To Fund the Future Vision 3. To enable taking […]

You’re in a growing church. Keep growing, and talk of adding staff, facilities or planting another campus, and the like will take place. Your church may even be in the […]

In my post “The Upside and Downside of Planning“, we talked about the need to have an Upside and a Downside Plan – in addition to your Annual Ministry Plan […]

You spend a LOT of time putting together an Annual Ministry Plan for your church. By the time you’re done, you’re DONE. Right? But, you need a Plan B. And […]

An excerpt from an American Family Association book reads, In the culture, in the courts, even in casual conversation, it is increasingly obvious that we have lost sight of over […]

My desire is to keep church leaders informed of changes in law that impact the church. You’ve probably heard by now, but in case you haven’t, as it relates to […]

In this my 3rd and final post about Planning for Margin, we’ll take a look a the Margin Model I use to get the “Pre-Budget” conversation started. The model is […]