Is your church in Good Standing with the State? The other day, I did a search on the Secretary of State website for United Methodist churches. You would be shocked at how many churches have been involuntarily dissolved because someone missed filing the Annual Report. In this post, I show you how to check your church’s status and how to undo the damage if your church isn’t in Good Standing.
I have a big announcement! I’ll be changing jobs this August to teach accounting at Dakota Wesleyan University. In this post, I share what I’ll miss most and least about working for the Dakotas UMC. The video also gives some ideas of what to expect going forward.
It is surprising to me how many churches are trusting in their institutional memory when it comes to donor restrictions. If your church is doing this, there will be a day when someone challenges that memory. Do you have the donor restriction in writing? What if you lost the actual written donor restriction?
If you missed out last night, Sheri Meister and I held the 2022 first quarter webinar. Our focus was on taking a fresh look at the Balance Sheet which would be perfect timing if your church is preparing for the annual audit.
As ministry and church continues to change in order to meet new challenges of making disciples, some churches have pots of money with restrictions that are no longer relevant? What do you do? Can you change the restrictions? Yes, you do have some options to legally change those restrictions.
This is pretty nerdy, but few things motivate me more than a good-looking spreadsheet. In fact, I created two spreadsheets (linked in the post) that helped me lose weight and catch up on email. If a spreadsheet has great formatting, I’m more likely to keep it up to date as well as look at it closely. For me, Conditional Formatting has been a blessing in making it easy to make my spreadsheets more attractive and informative.
I really really liked Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius. It’s simple yet profound. The assessment was probably the best investment of $12.50 I’ve ever made. I liked it so much, I had my whole team and even my wife take it. In this post, you’ll learn more about it as well as my experience.
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