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Title: Smart Church Finances


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Smart Church Finances
  • 11 Keys to

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Smart Church Finances
  • 1. The Right Stuff www.ucc.org/finance

I n t r o d u c i n g
a new webpage
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Smart Church Finances The Right Stuff
  • www.ucc.org/finance

Navigating
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Smart Church Finances
2. Equipped Leaders
  • Leadership exists to
  • serve the churchs mission
  • Treasurer, Trustees, Financial Secretary
  • Position Descriptions
  • Separation of duties
  • Bonding
  • The Ministers Role (coming soon)

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Smart Church Finances - Leadership
click on Trustees
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Smart Church Finances - Leadership
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Smart Church Finances
3. Effective Procedures
  • Start with Best Practices for Handling Church
    Offerings!
  • Clear, workable procedures help
  • People perform well
  • Safeguard assets property and people
  • Enhance trust and confidence

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Smart Church Finances - Procedures
Great resources
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4. The Right Accounting System
  • The right system
  • fits the churchs needs
  • seeking church input
  • Computerized or manual, it helps
  • Manage the finances
  • Track progress to goals
  • Produce timely, accurate reports that communicate
  • Must be user friendly

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Smart Church Finances
5. Reports That Communicate
  • Financial reports that
  • communicate put people at ease and in control
  • being developed
  • Financial reports for members should
  • Be kept simple
  • (MTD, YTD, Budget)
  • Be timely, accurate, and complete
  • Compare (actual/budget)
  • (current year/prior year)
  • Identify restricted funds
  • Give the full picture

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6. Budgets That Inspire Giving
  • Mission Spending Plan
  • Invite support by
  • How you build it
  • What you call it
  • How you present it
  • Try a narrative or picture format
  • www.ucc.org/stewardship/picture-budgets.html

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Smart Church Finances - Budgeting
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7. Multiple Sources of Funding
  • Does your church offer multiple giving
    opportunities?
  • ASK!!!
  • Nurture annual giving
  • Cultivate major gifts planned giving
  • Capital campaigns
  • Grant writing
  • Make it easy to give
  • www.ucc.org/e-giving

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Smart Church Finances - Fundraising
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Smart Church Finances
8. Commitment to Giving
  • People give to ministry
  • that transforms lives
  • How does your church model giving?
  • Tithe to OCWM
  • My church is 5 for 5
  • Basic Support, OGHS, NIN, STC, Christmas
    Fund
  • Support community UCC seminaries

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Smart Church Finances
9. Informed Investing
  • Investing church funds
  • a BIG responsibility
  • You can invest with confidence
  • UCC Cornerstone Fund
  • Flexible Demand Term Notes for
  • Individuals, Churches, UCC Entities
  • United Church Funds
  • A Family of Investment Funds for
  • Churches UCC Institutions
  • Both provide socially responsible investing

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Smart Church Finances - Investing
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Smart Church Finances
10. Empowered Borrowing
  • Borrowing can be challenging expensive
  • UCC churches have great options
  • Church Building Loan Fund
  • for your first house of worship
  • Partners in Building Program
  • UCC Cornerstone Fund
  • Repair, remodel, build, accessibility
  • EcoLoans, Revolving Line of Credit

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Smart Church Finances - Borrowing
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11. Problems Addressed / Accomplishments
Celebrated
  • Its how you handle them that counts!
  • Every system
  • experiences problems
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