About Me
Welcome to a place to where we can help each other with knowledge and understanding in the area of church administration. I served as church administrator at Brookside CRC in Grand Rapids for 8 ½ years and now serve in the Ministers’ Pension Office in Grand Rapids. I’m a business graduate from Calvin and have been a member of CRC congregations all my life including Redlands, CA; Scottsdale, AZ; Sun Valley, CA; and Grand Rapids, MI.
A couple years ago Chris Cok, the controller at the denomination, and I posted on the CRC website “Financial Resources from Churches and for Churches.” Now the site http://www.crcna.org/pages/finance.cfm is linked to the Church Administration Network.
We hope you find these resources helpful in your work. If you don’t see what you need, we look forward to your questions for possible new additions.
If you have something that you think would be of interest to others in the area of church administration, please send it my way so we may continue to assist each other as we faithfully serve our Lord through the use of our gifts in administration.
God bless you in your service,
Sheri Laninga
My Topics
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Health Insurance Credit US Churches February 7, 2012 |
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Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation January 24, 2012 |
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Recent Court Cases and the Church January 18, 2012 |
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The Next Christians January 9, 2012 |
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Healthy Decision Making December 20, 2011 |
My Comments
What a great post Doug. Thanks for educating the network guide and participants reading this blog. Educating each other through comments will help us serve our churches.
Could you clarify why it is difficult for churches to submit Ministry Shares based on their 2011 active professing member count? For example, our church would submit their membership count...
The ministry share request is based on the professing member information submitted for the yearbook that coincides with the year of the ministry share. In other words, the 2012 ministry...
The Ministry Shares assessment approved by Synod in June 2011 and reported in the July Financial Summary is effective starting January 1, 2012. The 2012 assessment will be based on the...
Churches in the Christian Reformed Church denomination typically utilize the 501(c)3 status of the denomination.
Discussing with the IRS the possibility of still filing a 990-T for 2010...