Church finances, from someone who has seen two hundred of them.
Most church-finance help is written by accountants for accountants, or by consultants who have never sat in your board meeting. This is different. It comes from nearly twenty years overseeing the finances of a ministry network of more than two hundred churches, and it speaks the language boards and treasurers actually use, minutes, designations, reserves, reimbursements, and it knows the clergy-tax rules that trip up nearly every church.
The Church Financial Vitals
A ten-minute checkup on your church's financial health, from the money and the safeguards to your governance, your clergy pay, and how you care for your pastor. You get an honest read and a short list of where to start. One budget page for a few numbers; everything else is a tap.
Start the checkupTemplates you can actually adopt
Most church-finance sites tell you what your board should have, then leave you to figure out the document. These are the documents, plain-language, on-brand, ready to fill in and record in your minutes.
The ready-to-adopt board resolution that makes your pastor's housing allowance official, the single most common thing churches get slightly wrong.
The board resolution, the written policy, and the forms that keep staff reimbursements from quietly becoming taxable income.
Simple, board-adoptable policies for handling money with integrity and caring for people in need.
Pastoral Finance is written by Todd Hukill, an ordained pastor who has served for nearly twenty years as Finance Director for a ministry network of more than two hundred churches, and who has worked in the financial profession since 2000. Not an outsider looking in, a pastor and insider who has done both sides.
Pastoral Finance is educational only and does not provide individualized financial, tax, or legal advice, and is editorially independent from Legacy Path Advisors LLC. Confirm your church's specific situation with a qualified accountant or attorney.