Church Finances for Missional Leaders: Best Practices for Faithful Stewardship - Bonnie Ives Marden

Packed with guidelines, tools, worksheets, and biblically sound strategies for pastors, treasurers, trustees, finance and stewardship chairs and committees. This book introduces basic financial vocabulary and offers concrete help for creating a church budget; understanding financial sustainability, the role of reserves, the importance of personal and congregational stewardship; communicating financial needs; generating money for mission, income planning, and projection; and developing strategies for appeals and campaigns, risk and liability issues, and much more. Includes reproducible pages with worksheets and sample policies.