The Balance Sheet or Statement of Financial Position is perhaps not as well understood by church leaders relative to the Income/Expense Statement. But these two are absolutely essential – and […]

Today, we’re looking at the venerable Monthly Income/Expense Statement as the 1st report as part of the Reporting Strategy Series for the Executive Team. Generally, the Executive Team gets the […]

As part of my Reporting Strategy Series, in this post, we’re going to talk about reporting to the Executive Team of your church. This might be the Pastor only but […]

Another report Pastors, Finance Teams and Staff need on Mondays is a report that keeps them abreast of giving and available funds for ministry. I issued such a report that […]

One report the Pastor wants on Mondays is Worship Attendance. Today, I’ll share the report we used at my church. Here’s some background: *We had 2 morning services and an evening […]

Most churches do a good job at focusing on tracking growth in terms of how many and what %. For example, attendance grew by 10% last year. Our giving increased […]

On the way to the coffee machine the other day, I starting wondering if my readers think I am just about helping churches be more like a business. You know […]

This is my last post in the Side Door Metrics series  – The series about measuring the effectiveness of “Next Step” strategies and processes. (Where you want people to go […]

We’re continuing the series of posts about using Non-Financial Metrics to assess the effectiveness of ministry. Thus far, we’ve talked about: How Metrics Can Help Your Church Front Door Metrics […]