Church Administration and Management

This section will offer helpful articles on managing the day-to-day operations of a church office. This includes topics such as leadership, decision making, budgeting, quality tools and much more!

Church Board Responsibilities

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One of the requirement of being a nonprofit organization is to have an oversight board.  Church boards are responsible for ensuring that the ministry fulfills its core mission.  This is done by developing strategy, monitoring performance and ensuring church financial accountability. Strong board governance makes certain a meaningful mission is implemented effectively. Effective boards have [...]

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Church Financial Management

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The economic climate has been a test and a financial strain on every aspect of our culture and the church is no exception.  More and more churches are having financial problems and need help figuring out the best way to manage their resources in these uncertain times. Church leaders across the country are scrambling trying [...]

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Church Financial Accountability – 4 Reasons to Pursue ECFA Accreditation

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Managing a church has many of the same challenges as managing a business and requires a lot of the same business processes to be successful.  Church leaders pursue their call to lead a congregation and may have lots of training in theology and biblical principles but may not have basic business training that is required [...]

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Church Management – Using Councils to Help Guide the Church

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In Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great, he talks about using councils to help guide the organization.  Councils should be made up of a group of the right people to discuss, debate, and make decisions about the administration and management of the church.  People selected to serve on councils should be those with knowledge, experience [...]

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Decision Making Process – 4 Decision Making Tips

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  Managing church operations presents many challenges and decision making is at the core of all managerial functions.  There are many approaches to decision making in business management and it is important to have consistency in the managerial decision making process. There are daily decision that need to be made and a structured process helps [...]

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Church Leadership – 14 Leadership Traits

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Leadership means “the ability to lead; an act or instance of leading; guidance; direction.” Church leadership is about how we behave, communicate and manage others.  The term is used in many forms to describe many things, but it is ultimately the act of leading people in a certain direction.  It requires followers before someone can [...]

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Church Budget – 6 Reasons to Develop a Church Budget

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God blesses churches with tithing members to provide the resources to do the work of the ministry.  Good stewardship of those resources is a significant responsibility that should not be taken lightly. Churches that use an operating budget are equipped to control spending and formalizing the budgeting process can help ensure that dollars are allocated [...]

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Sample Code-of-Ethics

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Many organizations create code-of-ethics or code-of-conduct statements as a way to communicate established boundaries and set employee behavior expectations.  Business code-of-conduct expectations are typically developed at the board level and filtered throughout the organization through training and new employee orientation programs.   Church employees are not exempt from unethical conduct and benefit from having a [...]

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Example Church Personnel Committee Job Description

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In Jim Collins book, Good-to-Great, he talks about using councils to help guide the organization.  Many churches use committees to serve this same purpose.  Councils should be made up of a group of the right people to discuss, debate and make decisions about the operation of the organization.  People selected to serve on these councils should be those [...]

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Examples of 5 Whys Root Cause Analysis

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  There are many creative ways to solve business problems and one quality tool that is commonly used is called the 5 Whys.  This is an exercise that entails identifying a problem and asking the question why? five times which allows you to quickly drill down to the root cause of a problem.  It is [...]

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