Unfortunately sometimes people steal from the church. Most often this happens when normally good people are put in bad positions. Maybe they have a big medical bill or their spouse lost their job. Then, if the church has little to no internal controls, they may attempt to “borrow” from the church honestly hoping to pay it back later.
Your internal controls can help prevent good people from acting on bad temptations. It will also help catch people just looking to steal.
In this post, I share with you the #1 thing a church can do to prevent (not detect) fraud.
