Overview

This course is not designed to teach the “nuts and bolts” of accounting, financial reporting, or financial management. Rather, this course provides an overview of church financial administration and management for professional ministry staff.

It is also designed to provide pastors with enough knowledge to ask the right questions of their staff and advisory committees, and an intuition of common pitfalls of church financial management, to help guard against imprudent financial practices.

This knowledge and intuition can help pastors and ministry staff to be faithful stewards of the resources entrusted to them by their congregants, so that they can be prudently used to help build and advance the Reign of God in the congregation and in the community.

This course is part of the Church Administration Course Series. When taken together, the four courses in the series will equip church leaders with a holistic set of practical skills informed by a theological focus that situates these practices within the church’s mission of discipleship, worship, and witness.