Category: Finances

  • Free Church Event Release Forms

    Free Church Event Release Forms

    Summer event season is upon us! I hope your church is reaching out, serving and spreading God’s love in your community. Whether you’ve planned the event or have coordinated supporting another organization’s event, you need to seriously consider using church event release forms. Remember permissions slips? Yeah, church event release forms are basically those. Especially […]

  • How to Pay Church Interns by Stipend

    How to Pay Church Interns by Stipend

    Paying church interns by stipend seems to be a common practice, so I’ve been looking at that in this 3-part series. Today you’ll learn how to pay church interns by stipend. But first, one last test: Are They a Volunteer? OK, so they failed the intern and contractor tests. Can’t we just call them a […]

  • Paying Church Interns as Contractors

    Paying Church Interns as Contractors

    In the first post of this series, I explored what an intern is as part of my research on paying church interns by stipend. That lead me to having to dig into what a contractor is and rules about paying church interns as contractors. Remember, there are 4 types of workers that can do any […]

  • Paying Church Interns by Stipend

    Paying Church Interns by Stipend

    Churches should be training grounds for ministry and leadership, but sometimes compensation gets complicated. I often get asked about paying church interns by stipend, so I decided to do some research. First, we need to understand that there are 4 types of workers that can do any work at your church: Employees Interns (more below) […]

  • Don’t Lose Your Church Tax Exempt Status

    Don’t Lose Your Church Tax Exempt Status

    The following is a guest post by my friend and operations guru, Greg Hubbard. He helps church planters through his ministry at the Orchard Group which focuses on planting churches in global cities. Churches frequently pay money to people out of a desire to be helpful and gracious. But you have to be careful when […]

  • How to Use a Prepaid Card for Petty Cash

    How to Use a Prepaid Card for Petty Cash

    It is essential to keep good financial records for your church, including having a reimbursement system that creates paper trail for all church expenses. But what happens if a staff or volunteer can’t front the expense and wait to get reimbursed? Using a prepaid card for petty cash may just solve your dilemma. I prefer […]

  • You Need a Church Reimbursement System

    You Need a Church Reimbursement System

    You need a church reimbursement system to create a clear record or paper trail of all the expenses for your church plant. If you don’t, your church could lose its nonprofit status. Your church is a nonprofit, which means that all of its cash & assets need to be used for nonprofit purposes. If you don’t […]

  • 5 Church Plant Facility Lease Surprises to Avoid

    5 Church Plant Facility Lease Surprises to Avoid

    The following is a guest post by my friend and operations guru, Greg Hubbard. He helps church planters through his ministry at the Orchard Group which focuses on planting churches in global cities. The most significant contract a new church enters is a lease agreement for office space and/or a Sunday worship venue.  Just like […]

  • Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress

    Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress

    The following is a guest post by Dave Phillips of Passion 4 Planting, a church plant project manager and coder extraordinaire. Wouldn’t it be great if you could start accepting donations from your church plant website without hiring a programmer? You can! All you need is a WordPress-based website and a plugin that’s connected to […]