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If you’re like most pastors, you’ve not been trained to manage the church’s money. You’ve been taught, in fact, to be suspicious of Mammon. So how do you respond when a spreadsheet (usually in the red) is thrust before you and eager trustees look to you for financial leadership? Having to be concerned about financial matters may well be a disturbing reality for you. You want, rightly so, to be...

six years. He confronted the man and the situation, leading the church through the crisis, and revamping the church’s internal control systems to ensure financial integrity. The watchwords undergirding sound financial practices are expressed by Richard this way, “No system is beyond abuse, but responsible stewardship demands church finances be handled with absolute integrity.” The measures Bergstrom instituted were successful: “As a result of aggressive reform and complete openness before our
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