Category: Church Paperwork
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4 Reasons You Need a Church Plant Management Team
A church plant Management Team plays several crucial roles in supporting the planter during the early stages of the new church. Go without a Management Team and you’ll be at risk for the following reasons. If you’re starting a legally autonomous church congregation, you should not be flying solo until the someday that you can […]
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3 Tests to Make Sure You Don’t Choose a Duplicate Church Name
So you’ve done the hard work of praying through a contextual church name for your church plant. Before you finalize it, use these 3 tests to make sure you don’t choose a duplicate church name. This gets a little tricky since there’s several different layers you have to check. I’ll make it easy(er) for you: […]
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How to Fire Church Plant Staff, part 1
I wish I could say this never comes up, but some of you planters are going to need to know how to fire church plant staff. In my church planting circles there are legendary but true stories about this, like planters having to fire worship leaders 2 weeks before launch. And there are too many […]
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7 Church Benevolence System Basics
There are some church benevolence system basics you need to think through before you field your first request for help. Make decisions about each of the following: Establish a purpose Pray about it and search the scriptures. God has a lot to say about generosity and helping those less fortunate. You need to have a […]
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How to Create a Church Plant Benevolence System
As you get connected in your community, sooner or later someone will contact you for help with a utility bill or car repair. What are you going to do about church plant benevolence when it comes up? There are lots of scriptural mandates around the concept of benevolence, including Jesus’ parable about the eternal reward […]
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The Fast and Free Way to Process Church Plant Fundraising
You’re ready to make your first fundraising ‘ask’. Do you have everything in place to process church plant fundraising when a supporter says ‘yes’? Here’s how you can get that done fast, and in most cases, free. Before you make that first ask, you need to have your processing infrastructure in place. Just imagine – […]
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What Do I Do with My Church 1099-K?
Most of you church planters are getting your church 1099-K right about now. Every year I get at least one frantic email asking about what the church should do. Here’s what you need to know: What is a Church 1099-K? The short answer is ‘just information’. It’s simply the total of all the credit card […]
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Free Church Employee Personnel File Checklist
As I started creating this church employee personnel file checklist, I was completely blown away by the level of complexity it requires. I thought this was going to be a easy one. Good thing I did the work for you! I quickly ran into all kinds of rules, laws and other concerns about personnel files. […]
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Free Church Employee Onboarding Checklist
Congratulations! You just hired someone to your church staff and now they’re ready to go, right? Nope. There are several important things you’re likely to forget without a church employee onboarding checklist. I learned the importance of this years ago when a planter hired a new children’s director but didn’t have an intentional onboarding process. […]