103 Class 5—Reporting
Reporting
Leaders care less for accounting details and more about reporting. Getting information in helpful formats is imperative. Staff and key leaders need certain types of reports. The governing board often needs another type, while the congregation needs a different style. The Finance or Audit Committee, on the other hand, needs still another. This class will explore financial reports, metrics and dashboards. Also included will be a discussion of donor statements and information, both financial and congregational, that can be included on them.
Guest Lecturers
Jon Wright is the Executive Pastor of Grace Church of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with over 5,000 in worship. His goal at Grace is to create an environment conducive to the fulfillment of the church’s mission.
He does this by providing leadership coaching to the ministry staff and the Grace family.
The results is in innovation and impact across the street and around the world for the glory of Christ.
Jeff Kornoelje oversees operations at Grace Church. He started work at Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor and became a branch manager.
After reading the book Halftime by Bob Bufford, the Lord called Jeff to live out leaving “success for significance,” so the family moved to Minnesota to work with Grace Church in 2004.
Class Items
Slide Deck
Required Reading
- Chapters 9 and 10, Money Matters in Church by Aubrey Malphurs and Steve Stroope.
- First Person Report on an Internal Control Audit by an anonymous XPastor student. www.xpastor.org/finance/audit/first-person-report-on-an-internal-control-audit, 2019.