This week our brand new clergy in the Dakotas UMC will be learning about Clergy Taxes! If you’re jealous, here’s your chance to experience what they are going through.
If you’re an experienced pastor that needs a refresher, this will be worth the time. This would also be good for a lay person in church finances to understand how your work affects your pastor.
In my church foundation series, I look at Officers, Meetings, and Committees. Again, a huge thanks to Grand Forks Wesley UMC for sharing their church foundation’s bylaws. There are a lot of seeming small but impactful decisions to make in this area that I go over.
So…I’ve learned a lot about YouTubing over the last 3.5 years. I currently have the second largest United Methodist YouTube channel in the Dakotas. Embrace Church is beating me, but I’m beating Dakota Wesleyan.
How did this happen when I post primarily on church finances? I go over 8 things to think about to increase your views in this post. Most are super easy to fix and, because I’m cheap, they won’t cost a dime.
Many of us are fortunate enough to know what a good home feels like. It might be your biological home or with your in-laws or even with a group of good friends, but it’s so important to have a good home if we are going to do our best work.
In this week’s offering, I give you three questions to ask yourself (either as an individual or a church) to help in discerning if the UMC or GMC will be a good home.
By default, I’m a transactional person. I tend to focus on the things I can count…especially the dollars. Over the years I’ve had to accept that a healthy balance sheet is meaningless if lives are not being transformed.
Sheri Meister shares her thoughts and experiences in working with Transactional Churches vs Transformation Churches.
I received this great question from one of our pastors in the Dakotas UMC: Our church has faithfully paid our pension bills so why would we owe more if we choose to leave the denomination?
Pensions are a complicated topic, but an analogy occurred to me that may help.
Setting up a church foundation can be tricky. If it’s done poorly, that will lead to problem down the road. I go over three key sections this week as well as the reasons behind them.