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UNLEASH 2010: Breakout Session 2

new-spring-church Breakout Session 2

Giving…Budgeting…Spending

Paul Marshall & Joe Sangl

Giving:

0-1,000 People –

  • Established Accurate (Excellent) record-keeping (Used Simple Access Database)
    (Without accurate record keeping, you have a mess!)
  • 1st Time Giving Letter (No matter how much given)
  • Let God be in the equation
  • Build margin, early & often!

1,000 – 5,000 people –

  • Moved to FellowshipOne (Helps track Ministry & Giving)
  • Did 1st Capital Campaign (3 year pledge)
  • Educating people about finances (FPU) – The church decided to take on the responsibility to teach the people about finances.

5,000+ people –

  • Did 2nd Capital Campaign (3year pledge)
  • Class – “Financial Learning Experience”
    *Common sense is uncommon
  • Group Study: “I was broke. Now I’m Not.”
  • Started looking at tithing/offering as a “Worship Experience”
    (52 Weeks – 52 Different Ways to focus)

Budgeting

0-1,000 people –

  • Commitment to pay staff well from the start
  • Benefits to staff employees from the start (100% of employee. 50% of dependents)
  • Lead Team: Monthly review of finances
  • Budget for a year
  • Let God be in the Equation

1,000-5,000 people –

  • ACS for Accounting (Linear System)
  • Retirement plan w/ matching funds
  • POs

5,000+ people –

  • 3rd party salary survey for senior pastor
  • Annual budgeting with approvals by SMT

Spending

0-1,000 people –

  • Accurate record keeping of expenditures
  • Pastor NEVER signs (signed) checks
  • 2 Signatures required on all checks, with a signing limit (only a handful of signers 3-4, 2 signatures required)
  • Farmed out Payroll
  • Let God be in the Equation

1,000-5,000 people –

  • Annual review by 3rd party (CPA)
  • Brought payroll back in-house
  • Purchased Land

5,000+ people –

  • Changed to new PO system
  • Sage MIP Accounting System (Segment Based)
  • Microix
  • True 3rd Party Audit
  • Project next years budget from last 6 months income
  • Watch cash flow
  • Provide a wish list if God gives a special gift to the church (this is separate from budget)
  • Individual ministry budgets: Breakout with current years expenses (money spent), column to list suggested next years budget with an additional column to list reasons why it is being suggested.
  • No fundraisers. People give to a vision before they give to a need. Every Sunday is a Big Event, that helps cast vision.
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UNLEASH 2010: Breakout Session 1

perry-noble1stevenfurtick-buttonUnleash 2010 Breakout Session 1: Senior  Pastors Only

Perry Noble &
Steven Furtick

Breakout Session Notes

God can speak through people who are equivalent to Balaam’s donkey – Steven Furtick (They’re pretty much jackasses…Don’t tithe, don’t get involved, etc. But God can speak through them)

  • The parameters of the overall vision gives the leadership freedom to lead & think Big – The overall vision comes from the pastor – Steve Furtick

(I was reminded about this quote from Church Planters Conference) “You can’t have a strategy without first having a philosophy” – Pete Wilson

  • When you hear from God and your leaders know you hear from God, you can lead them to do some stupid stuff 🙂 However, you have to REALLY hear from God, you cannot front like you hear from God.
  • Leaders have to choose the path of humility – “God cannot lift an unbowed head” – Steven Furtick
  • The unspoken lid to our leadership is the fear of being burned – Steven Furtick
  • The Great players play hurt. Preach hurt, don’t preach bitter! – Perry Noble
  • God’s promise is bigger than your perhaps – Steven Furtick
  • A pastor cannot choose his successor – Perry Noble quoting Rick Warren
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Velocity 2010 Session and Breakout Notes

velocity-buttonVelocity 2010 Church Planting Conference

Mountain Lake Church was not able to ramp up their bandwidth for the WIFI network in time for the Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference. This was like a forced Blogging and Twitter fast for me, but it wasn’t a bad thing. All of my attention was on the speakers and taking old school notes 🙂

Here is a landing page for all of the notes I was able to take (now posted on my blog) for each session, except session 5, and for the Breakouts I attended, some of the notes may not make any sense to you, they probably will not make much sense to me once I go back and review some of them, because several of the speakers had in-depth studies and terms that I couldn’t record before they moved on:

Main Session 1: Shawn Lovejoy
Main Session 2: Alan Hirsch
Main Session 3: Steven Furtick
Breakout Session 2: Pete Wilson
Main Session 4: Dave Gibbons
Breakout Session 3: Tony Morgan
Main Session 6: Rick Warren