Best Practices for Church Governance?
What are the best practices for church governance? For example, what is a good governance model?
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What are the best practices for church governance? For example, what is a good governance model?
The new 403b-9 plan for non-ordained staff requires working with Envoy Financial. Please send me your comments about working with Envoy and your experience with the program.
Willowdale CRC in Toronto will be reopening at some point and I wonder if anyone has resources that we can take advantage of (i.e. attendance registration templates, etc.).
Have any churches implemented "lifestyle standards" for volunteers?
Have any of you successfully sold or donated your pews when you take them out? Wondering if anyone has had luck with this.
Does anyone have a written employee policy for COVID-19 that they could share with us? We would also like a draft of policies or guidelines for worship team volunteers.
We want to keep track of money allocated to those in need but feel it's not necessary to ask for extensive information from them. How does your church keep records?
Any ideas on best practices related to sanitizing and disinfecting our church buildings?
I'm looking for some recommendations for starting online giving at our church. What would you recommend?
We are looking for a database that would allow people with needs to connect with people who can fill those needs. Any ideas?
Does anyone have a sample of a confidentiality agreement?
Should the individual wages and cost of benefits for ministers and church staff be detailed in the general fund budget that is presented at the annual congregational meeting?
I'm looking for a sample incident form to include with church rentals. Does your church have one? Any ideas?
Any recommendations on a company or individual (in the greater Grand Rapids, MI area) that can help a church with tax forms?
If you can include the cost of a security system as a housing expense for the housing exclusion, can you count a dog as your security system? Anyone know?
Our church is looking for a company to help process donations online. Any feedback on Planning Center, Subsplans, Clover Give, or others?
I am looking for information on whether and how CRC churches annually adjust pastor's salary to account for their years of service. Thanks for your input!
Our church is currently looking to put together a plan on how to respond and react if an active shooter were to ever enter the premises. Does anyone happen to have any sample policies or articles on this topic?
Are there any CRC churches using this method of giving? Who do you use? Has it increased your offering amounts?
Input needed to balance cash reserve account on church balance sheet.
Who has experience with online giving? What vendor did you select?
We'd like to give congregation members the opportunity to submit feedback about the pastor via a survey. Does anyone have sample surveys for this purpose? Thanks!
Our church policy (based on complying with Revenue Canada) requires that we charge people to use our facility. We would like to open our doors (free of charge) as a witness in the community. Any idea how to do this?
What software program is your church using to manage and schedule your various volunteers?
Anyone out there have a sample privacy policy that would be useful for churches in Ontario--that would line up with Ontario privacy laws?