Luke 14:28 - Counting the Costs

Our church recently went through a long process of budget planning, tweaking, planning, and more tweaking. The Finance Chair and Treasurer spent hours reviewing the budget as did our Administrative Board. After our annual pledge campaign, the initial forecast puts us roughly 15% under our planned budget for the next fiscal year. That means we may well need to revise what we so painstakingly reviewed. Ouch.

How do other churches manage the relationship between pledges (which involve faith) and budgets (which involve very real dollars)?

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I started Luke 14:28 to document and discuss leading, managing, and sometimes surviving Church life. I love my Church, yet my Church isn’t always easy to love.

I also started this site to better understand what other churches are doing to grow, lead, and manage. This blog is very much from a lay perspective. If anything, it’s a sound board for ideas, best practices, and lessons learned!

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