Resource Category: Church Operations

A seminar designed to help ministers, church treasurers, personnel committies & deacons better understand what is both helpful and required to navigate taxes for churches in 2024. Alan Monroe is the owner of Monroe Accounting Solutions and has served as an Illinois Baptist Pastor. https://vimeo.com/908019823/88fac897d0?share=copy

Training for deacons and their pastors. An overview of the biblical character needed and what that looks like in the deacon’s life, as well as practical ways deacons can fulfill their ministry to serve their church. Download Handout Here https://vimeo.com/644827725?share=copy

Learn practices and tips of how to best handle church financial practices. Download Handout Here https://vimeo.com/644084259?share=copy

Learn practices your church needs to make first time guests (and everyone else!) feel wanted and welcomed, from before their first visit until they become a part of the family. Download Handout Here https://vimeo.com/644385883?share=copy

Assisting a church through times of transition is crucial to their future health and growth. This breakout will present current trends that are affecting today’s pastor search processes, offer insights into an effective search, and describe best practices that churches are using in their search processes. https://vimeo.com/684096340?share=copy related resources

Churches are generally in the business of reinventing the wheel. Every week pastors, volunteers, and committees are in a never-ending process of creating, producing, and presenting. But what if you could take the best of what you’re already doing and share it? Bi-vocational pastors could redeem their time, places where the ministry has never survived […]

Tax filing and considerations for churches and ministers can be challenging. Guidestone Financial Services, a ministry of the Southern Baptist Convention, understands those challenges and provides resources to help churches and pastors. This book contains the basic information you need to complete your current year’s federal income tax return. It gives special attention to several […]

This brochure explains special tax rules that apply to ministers and churches. Many of the questions and answers are related, so it’s important to read the entire brochure. related resources