Ebook
Shepherding the church requires up-to-date knowledge of budgets, insurance, financial management, personnel organization, audits, and legal liability. These responsibilities are complex and ever-changing. While as pastor, you are called to be a faithful steward of the church’s resources and an effective planner of its ministries, you need facts and skills to get your job done. This book will help you organize and weave your way through the often complex business of the church.
Contents include:
Definition of Ad-Ministry and What It Means to be an Ad-Minister
A Theological Model for Ad-Ministry
The Church as an Organization
Stewarding People—Paid and Unpaid Staff
Staffing the Volunteer Organization
Stewarding Resources—Finances and Budgeting
Stewarding Places and Spaces
Stewarding Fiduciary Responsibility—Legal and Liability Issues
Stewarding the Mission of God
Strategic Planning to Fulfill God’s Call on Your Congregation
Includes
templates, and samples, including Church Staff Review forms, Staff
Growth Plans, Offering Tracking Logs, Financial Statements, Property
Inventory Worksheets, and Emergency Procedures Worksheets.
Learn to run your church or ministry faithfully and effectively.
Gives essential information about church administration, including budgets, insurance, financial management, personnel organization, and legal liability.
Presents administration within the context of ministry and a pastor s call.
Gives helpful and authoritative resources for further reading.
Readers will acquire needed skill-set and tools to administrate a church.
Readers will understand administration as part of their ministry and calling.
Readers will feel secure and able to distill needed information.