Category: Church Management
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Are Your Guests Willing to Come Back?
Lifeway put out a good article last week about your church and it’s openness to guests. Of course we all say we’re friendly, we all say our doors are open and inviting, and we all SAY that guests are important to us. But is that portrayed in how we’ve aligned our priorities of our worship…
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Ministers Housing Allowance Possibly Under Attack
In an article orignally posted on www.christianpost.com, Stephanie Samuel discusses how a current court case could affect how churches can compensate pastors pre-tax through the use of a housing allowance. An atheist group is presenting the lawsuit claiming that ministers are unfairly allowed to not pay taxes and the remainder of tax payers are picking…
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TheChurchBusinessGuys.com Helps Church Obtain Financing for a Building Purchase
We had the privilege of seeing a project come to completion today. We were able to attend the closing on a new building for New Visions World Ministries. This project has taken several months and required quite a few hours of document and report preparation. We were able to prepare all the financial statements, prepare…
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Your Virtual Back Office
I saw a commercial last night for a business software program (which will remain nameless) that says it’s like having a ‘virtual back office.’ I was instantly intrigued because, after all, that is a catch phrase we have been using. After watching the commercial, I realized that yes, it is like having a ‘virtual back…
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Video Teleconferencing for Cheap
We needed a good way to stay in contact with our clients, especially those that were hours away. I spent a lot of time looking for good solutions for video teleconferencing but failed to find any that provided what we needed, at a cost that was feasible, until now. We have started using Skype here…
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Franchise Model for Church Plants
I own a Medicine Shoppe pharmacy. Med Shoppe’s are franchises and in the years I have owned the store, I have come to see the many great aspects of the franchise model as well as the bad. For the past few weeks, I have been working through in my mind how to take the franchise…
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Team Leadership for your church
I recently completed reading “The Power of Team Leadership” by Charles Barna. While the premise at first seemed simple and I questioned how a complete book could be written about something that appeared obvious, I was amazed at the detail and analysis provided. Mr. Barna took great time in providing a very compelling presentation of…
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Do you Expect Your Pastor to be Superman?
I am reading a book by Charles Barna, ‘The Power of Team Leadership’. Just a few pages into the book detailed exactly why our company exists. In the book, Mr. Barna is stating the case that our (churches) have set the standard required of their leader so high that successfully accomplishing it would be unnattainable. …
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Maintaining Balance Part 3 – Your Church
Let’s face it. In many cases our modern churches have become much more than just a gathering place to worship. We have added daycare, schools, coffee shops, bookstores, free wi-fi, etc., etc., etc. Now there is nothing inherently bad with these things, and for the most part they are great tools for reaching new people…
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Maintaining Balance Part 2 – What are Your Priorities…
I have always been in awe when reading stories of business owners, executives and other leaders that talk about only getting 3-4 hours of sleep per night. I am in awe as I wake up dreary from my 8 hour nightly nap. How are they able to function on such little sleep? And, the more…