Category: Church Paperwork
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You Need a Church Reimbursement System
You need a church reimbursement system to create a clear record or paper trail of all the expenses for your church plant. If you don’t, your church could lose its nonprofit status. Your church is a nonprofit, which means that all of its cash & assets need to be used for nonprofit purposes. If you don’t […]
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5 Church Plant Facility Lease Surprises to Avoid
The following is a guest post by my friend and operations guru, Greg Hubbard. He helps church planters through his ministry at the Orchard Group which focuses on planting churches in global cities. The most significant contract a new church enters is a lease agreement for office space and/or a Sunday worship venue. Just like […]
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Can Church Boards Vote by Email?
Similar to our discussion last week about virtual board meetings is the question, “Can church boards vote by email?” When you’re pressed for time to make a decision between regular board meetings, it seems quick & easy to shoot out an email and have all the directors email their vote back in. There’s a little […]
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Are Virtual Church Board Meetings Legal?
As schedules get busier and video conferencing software gets better, more church plant management teams are wondering, “Are virtual church board meetings legal?” Remembering that I am not a lawyer and not qualified to dispense legal advice, let me simply point you to what I found in my own quest for answers: Check Your State’s […]
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3 Reasons to Create Ministry Reports
There has been a lot of healthy conversation around the ‘scorecard’ of the church recently. We mostly agree that measuring attendance and offerings is an incomplete scorecard at best. But why would you even want to create ministry reports that measure other things? Nobody becomes a church planter so that they can read or create […]
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Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress
The following is a guest post by Dave Phillips of Passion 4 Planting, a church plant project manager and coder extraordinaire. Wouldn’t it be great if you could start accepting donations from your church plant website without hiring a programmer? You can! All you need is a WordPress-based website and a plugin that’s connected to […]
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2 Housing Allowance Tips
As you plan for life and ministry in the coming year, use these 2 housing allowance tips to save the most on your taxes: #1 Create a Good System You need to have receipts to prove your expenses come tax time. Hopefully the IRS will never ask for them (yeah, that would be an audit), […]
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Avoid this Pastoral Housing Allowance Penalty
The pastoral housing allowance can be a great tax deduction for pastors. But if you don’t prepare for the surprise swap up on your taxes, you may end up paying a housing allowance penalty. I have seen church planters fall prey to this and wind up with a huge tax bill come April. To be […]
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Free Housing Allowance Calculator
Setting a Pastoral Housing Allowance continues to be one of the more confusing things to figure out for church planters. Below is a Free Housing Allowance Calculator that should help. First, some important things you need to keep in mind: The Rules You have to be an ordained, licensed or commissioned pastor You have to […]