Alignment and Your Church Budget

Now that budget season is well behind us, Iโ€™m taking a little time to reflect on the budget process in my current church. It can be challenging to anticipate how an entire year will unfold, much less try to do so months before that year even begins. We all know too well that things can change very quickly (yepโ€ฆIโ€™m still thinking about the impact of Covid among other things) and in ways that simply cannot be anticipated.

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We Are Getting Better at a Few Things

After our first Sunday online, I have to admit I was down. Like a lot of other churches, things didnโ€™t go as well as we had hoped that first time we moved our worship services entirely online. Yes, we have long had our services on a livestream but it had not been a key focus of our ministry up to that point. Mercy has that changed!

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