How Is Your Giving?
It is important to track your giving so you know as leadership where the church finances stand at any time. Each church handles giving communication differently and these are a few ideas from a variety of churches.
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It is important to track your giving so you know as leadership where the church finances stand at any time. Each church handles giving communication differently and these are a few ideas from a variety of churches.
In this webinar you’ll discover how compliance with Canadian charitable giving regulations changes your church’s funding of missionaries, short term teams and missions activities overseas.
New rules, which went into effect on January 1, 2007, specify that for any contribution of cash, check or other monetary gift, a donor must maintain the following information.
These offering vouchers are prepaid giving forms that can be dropped in the offering plate instead of currency.
Are you tired of writing checks? The Electronic Funds Transfer is the easiest and safest way of donating your gifts of any amount.
This document explains how to claim a deduction for your charitable contributions. The types of organizations to which you can make deductible charitable contributions are explained in the following link,
The following example is what an IRS-compliant and member-friendly statement looks like.
You can deduct your contributions only if you make them to a qualified organization. IRS Publication 526 discusses the organizations that qualify to receive deductible contributions.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Understand the Pre-Authorized Remittance (PAR) program from an administrative viewpoint.
A Pre-Authorized Remittance form is provided.
The goal of Planned Giving is to encourage and assist members and friends of your Church to make planned gifts. These gifts will advance the mission and purpose of your Church ministries.
Have you ever thought about how you could give more to your church? There is a way to give more with the financial assets you already have.
This sample policy gives some guidelines as to how gifts of stock should be handled, and what processes to follow to protect the donor and your church.
In this webinar, Rev. Darren Roorda, Canadian Ministries Director of the Christian Reformed Church, discusses the vital link in church ministry between vision and giving.
Jesus' agenda is radical because it orients us to God in the first place so that our living is shaped by God's priorities, instead of our own.
It’s more blessed to give than to receive; but just how is blessing realized through giving? Who gets it? What does it look like? What do YOU think?
In this webinar, Dr. Gary G. Hoag, known widely as the "Generosity Monk,” will offer insight on how to promote powerful giving in your church.
More and more churches are exploring how their congregations can give beyond the offering plate. But deciding which digital company to use for these giving options is confusing! Here's some help.
During worship a few Sundays ago, I watched a preacher turn the sometimes sleepy time of offering on its head.
The uncomfortable truth is that something is missing if our prayers and serving and witnessing aren’t coupled with generous giving.
Lecturing my millennial friend on the priorities of giving won't accomplish much. Truth is, he has a lot more to say about how and when church ministry will be paid for than I do.
So share my paycheck. That's the idea. My work -- my paycheck -- is directly linked to sharing with those in need in Ephesians 4:28 (NIV). But my paycheck? Sharing? Why is this so difficult to hear and even more difficult to do?