A practical, accessible guide to help church leaders through the steps needed to ensure an effective, accountable, and transparent financial process in a parish.
One of the risks of selecting parish pastoral council members through a parishwide vote is that parishioners in a large parish simply might not know enough ... An alternative to the popular vote method is a process known as discernment.
The book defines the roles of the clergy, staff, vestry, and congregation and outlines what needs to be done by them to design and implement a system of checks and balances for financial oversight and stewardship, in order to protect ...
This revised edition offers guidance on many new topics that are of vital importance to churches, including protecting children, information security, approaches to preventing and responding to violence, planned giving, social media, and ...
The remarkable success of the book A Pastor’s Toolbox: Management Skills for Parish Leadership has demonstrated that the demands of time and financial challenges continue to impact the work of today’s parish leaders.
The parish administrator should receive the pledge envelopes (with the written amount of currency previously inside, if any), photocopies of all checks, and a photocopy of the count sheet. Because the parish administrator posts the ...
A Handbook of Parish Finance
A Handbook of Parish Finance
Davidson, James D., Andrea S. Williams, Richard A. Lamanna, Jan Stenftenagel, Kathleen Maas Weigert, William J. Whalen, and Patricia Wittberg. 1997. The Search for Common Ground: What Unites and Divides American Catholics.
Provides a brief, informative, readable, and very helpful explanation of basic parish management to pastors, priests from abroad, deacons, seminary students, pastoral and finance council members, and lay parish workers.