It’s that time of year again when churches typically prepare (and should) a budget for the next year. Creating a budget for your church doesn’t have to be complicated. Below are a few steps and questions to help you prepare your budget: Revisit your vision and plan for achieving your goals. Estimate the costs associated with any new…
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Are you familiar with the human resource concept of hard and soft skills? Hard skills are specific technical skills like the ability to code, weld, design an app, or operate a piece of equipment. They are tangible and generally easy to evaluate or measure. Soft skills, on the other hand, are more akin to character…
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Ha! I know it is October, and yet I am writing a column entitled Thankfulness! Shouldn’t that wait till November, when we actually celebrate Thanksgiving??? Well, actually, we can be thankful anytime, can’t we? I have been reading through the Psalms lately and this past weekend the words of a Psalm I have read over many, many times,…
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