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By Deborah Ike
 If you work in the church accounting office, allow me to congratulate you on surviving the craziness that is January. You reconciled the month and year-end books for 2015, prepared tax-deductible donation receipts and made sure everything was in-order for 2016's accounting. If the thought of doing that whole process again next year makes you want to curl up into the fetal position, don't give up just yet. January accounting activities don't have to be stress-inducing.
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The Church Network
Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a business metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of an organization.
Drawing from experience at Preston Trail and other churches Tammy Bunting will explore critical data resources and elaborate the important role they can play in successful congregations.
Join Tammy Bunting for a one hour webinar on Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. CT / 2:30 p.m. ET where she will outline the common metrics that successful and high-growth churches are measuring, describe and contrast the systems where they tend to live, explore various report structures like dashboard report, pastors summary, or weekly summary data sheets, and explore various ways of combining those elements, whether that be manually in Excel or using a more modern accounting and/or church management system with integrations or data exports.
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Managing Your Church
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that it will apply the special church audit protection rules in Internal Revenue Code Section 7611 to church employment tax inquiries and examinations. Prior to the recent announcement, the IRS’s official position was that the special protections applied to inquiries and examinations related to church income tax matters but not to those related to employment tax matters.
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Join Villanova for an educational experience that will transform the way you lead and serve the church in an increasingly complex world. If you’re looking for an innovative, two-year, online graduate business program that provides you with a high-level skill set in church management, the MSCM is for you! http://MSCM.Villanova.edu
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Church Law and Tax
Many young ministers and ministers of new churches ask whether it's worth investing the time learning employment laws applicable to larger, more established churches. The answer is yes. Our family's home church grew from 1 employee to over 700 in a remarkably short amount of time. Admittedly, those are some unusual numbers, but it is common for a young church to quickly employ 15 (an important threshold number in employment law), 50 (another important threshold number), or 100 or more employees.
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Cook County Record
An order of Catholic nuns has filed a federal lawsuit against McHenry County for rejecting their proposal to expand facilities at their Northern Illinois Convent, and the case could have farther-reaching repercussions, as the country continues to grapple with questions over the rights of religious adherents and their organizations. The Fraternite Notre Dame submitted a petition for an amendment to a preexisting permit in Sept. 2014. The proposal included plans for a brewery, winery, gift shop, nursing home, and other charitable venues to be built in the primarily rural area in Chicago's far northwest suburbs.
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HH Architects
Excitement of a growing church can quickly turn to frustration as growth constraints can limit the momentum curve leaving leadership teams with a difficult decision, how to best facilitate future growth: add more services, start/add a satellite campus, build bigger…
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Christian Today
Pastors are public figures. Whether we consider them to be popular or not, every pastor has a certain group of eyes watching them. Often the pressure can be overwhelming, and consequently leaders of congregations would rather just hide some things that they feel people might question. But not all things should be kept under wraps. Here are seven things your pastor might be too scared to admit, but really wants to tell you.
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Yahoo
Seventy four percent of large churches offer formal internships or residencies for promising lay leaders or pastors-in-training, according to Leadership Network. A recent national study of church internships and residencies, perhaps the largest ever, looks inside the leader training process of more than 300 churches and summarizes the findings in a just-released, richly illustrated report, "Leaders in Training: Internships and Residencies Help Churches Shape Future Leaders," sponsored by Southeastern University.
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Los Angeles Times
Erwin Mena called himself "Padre" and celebrated Masses, confessions and baptisms, police say, but he was not your typical man of the cloth. He was a con man posing as a priest, swindling churchgoers out of several thousands of dollars, police allege in court documents. Officers arrested Mena, 59, in Elysian Park on suspicion of grand theft. LAPD Det. Gary Guevara alleged in court documents that Mena sold parishioners bogus trips to see Pope Francis last year in Philadelphia and New York. He has been charged with 22 felonies and 8 misdemeanors, according to a criminal complaint filed by the L.A. County district attorney's office.
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Christian Today
A Texas megachurch that recently voted to leave Presbyterian Church (USA) over theological differences agreed to pay its former regional body approximately $1.5 million to maintain control of its church property. First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio recently announced that it reached a settlement with Mission Presbytery over retaining ownership of its name and property. "Under the terms of the settlement, FPC will provide $1,525,000 to the denomination. Mission Presbytery will contribute $125,000 of this amount to the John Knox Ranch Summer Camp," read the announcement.
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CGMA Magazine
What daunting to-do list task have you been avoiding? Ignoring? Dreading?
Tasks which require us to expend effort now for some kind of abstract future benefit, such as eating healthily or saving up, are much harder for the brain to process than the concrete reality of the here and now.
The brain prefers to focus on the present, so to overcome procrastination, we need to make the present effort feel smaller and the future benefit feel greater and more tangible.
During a recent lecture at the London School of Economics, Caroline Webb, a co-founder of McKinsey’s leadership practice and the author of How to Have a Good Day, outlined five techniques we can all employ to overcome procrastination.
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By Kelly Sharp
 Imagine being given a task, then being continuously aided with every step until it was completed. This includes checking on your progress, monitoring your technique and voicing informational tidbits. While this may sound helpful for an untrained individual, it's actually a form of micromanagement. Office micromanagers never intend to overstep, they merely have an issue with letting go of control. Unfortunately, this can affect the success any business.
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Director of Finance and Operations
Hermitage, Tennessee
Hermitage Hills Baptist Church
This position's principle function is to support the church's mission of leading people to experience life change through Jesus Christ by directing and coordinating the administrative, financial and operational business functions of the church. Other responsibilities will include: Working with Senior Pastor and Stewardship Ministry Team to develop financial strategies to support the church mission...
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