Category: Finances
Episode 257: Financial Support Options for Church Plants
by NewChurches.com: What are the best financial support options for funding a new church plant? In Episode 257 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss various ways to fund new church plants. Here’s Blake with today’s question: What are different financial support options for a brand new church plant? […]
How to Decide Between a Fall and Spring Church Plant Launch
by Patrick Bradley: It is generally acknowledged that there are 2 best windows for a church plant launch in the US: fall (Sep/Oct) and spring (Feb/Mar). How will you decide? The windows work kind of like a space shuttle landing – in its day, it couldn’t come down just anywhere. […]
Episode 254: Relocating to a Different Venue
by NewChurches.com: Does the type of venue you meet in contribute to its growth? In Episode 254 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the best venues for portable churches to experience optimal growth. Here’s Kevin with today’s question: If a school or other building is better than most, […]
Churches Can Reimburse Health Insurance Premiums Again – But is It Worth It?
by Patrick Bradley: Some churches used to reimburse health insurance premiums as a benefit to their employees. The passage of the Affordable Care Act initially made that illegal – they wanted all employers to offer group health insurance to their employees. But now the 21st Century Cures Act has made […]
How to Know if Your Church Is Financially Healthy?
by Warren Bird: When church leaders ask questions like this… How much should we keep in cash reserves? How much debt is safe? What financial measures should our church’s leadership monitor each month? … They’re ultimately asking what makes a financially healthy church? I found clear, compelling answers from Michael […]
Why Most Churches That Start Small…Stay Small
by Carey Nieuwhof: So…you want your church to grow, right? When I ask ministry leaders whether they want to see growth, almost every leader I’ve ever talked to says yes. Sure…there are some house church movements that want to stay small. And some long time or xenophobic churches have lost their appetite […]
Episode 250: Funding Multisite
by NewChurches.com: What does it cost to go multisite? In Episode 250 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we share an excerpt from our Moving Toward Multisite Course where Geoff Surratt goes through different options for going multisite and helpful considerations in regards to funding. In this episode, you’ll discover: Important questions […]
Five New Reasons Why You DO Want to Launch that New Church or Campus
by Warren Bird: What did leaders from more than 1,500 new churches or multisite campuses tell us about what they’ve learned and experienced? “8 Launch Wins,” our newly released report gives you wisdom from comparing various approaches and circumstances. Here is the infographic from the richly illustrated report, which is […]
Resisting Spiritual Colonialism & Ambulance Chasing
By Daniel Im: For this month’s segment, Ed and I had the privilege of talking with Mark Jobe, Lead Pastor of New Life Community Church. New Life currently has over 20 locations in the Chicago-land area. Replanting and Restarting Having successfully launched 25 locations around Chicago, 14 of which were restarts, […]
Bivocational Ministry as an Evangelism Opportunity
by Ed Stetzer: One of the most vital yet understudied streams of church ministers is the bivocational pastor. This is that pastor who, either out of necessity or intentionality, works as both the pastor of a local church and in the secular marketplace. Already, more than one-third of all American pastors […]