YEAR-ROUND STEWARDSHIP #3

            I am continuing to share information about year-round stewardship that I started sharing a couple of weeks ago. So far, we’ve talked about the first six months of the year. Now we’ll cover the summer months of July and August and the first fall month of September.

 

July

·         The summer months usually aren’t terribly busy, but I think it’s a good time to consider whether have some sort of quarterly report that talks about faith and finance, and what that would look like.

August

·         Again, not a terribly busy month finance-wise, generally, but spend some time preparing budget requests to the various team and ministry leaders, so that these team leaders have them prior to their busy fall.

September

·         Send out quarterly statements to all givers. This is a good way, as people “return to church” and see the church ramping up activities, to catch up on their giving that may have fallen behind during the summer.

·         Receive and review budget requests that had gone out to ministry and team leaders last month and start to put together a preliminary budget for next year.

·         Review income and expenses to date, and see if the “summer slump” is more significant than normal.

·         Continue planning for the fall pledge campaign.

It is now the busy time of the year finance-wise, but if you have been doing some of this work since the beginning of the year, you will be entering the fall in good shape!