Good churches need good manuals – Free Documents (yes, really)

​Church finance offices have a myriad of Word docs and Excel spreadsheets which they create and use regularly. Many of the documents churches create are similar to the docs that other churches create. This is a loss of productivity since churches are “re-inventing the wheel” over and over again.
 
Over the 30-plus years I’ve worked in churches and non-profit organizations, I’ve created most of the documents that churches need repeatedly (and quite a few that are used just one time). www.churchbestpractices.org has a LOT of free documents which can be downloaded and altered to meet your church’s needs.
 
Here is are a few of them:

• Revenue Forecast: spreadsheet which uses historical and partial data from the current year to predict final revenues for the current year
• Sex Offender Covenant
• Endowment Agreement Template
• Personnel Budget Spreadsheet
• Gift Acceptance Policy
• Employee Evaluation Form
• Employee Orientation Checklist
• Employee Termination Checklist
• Employee Action Form (for new hires and changes in current employee status)

If you need a form which isn’t in this file, please let me know. I’ve probably created it and haven’t loaded on this site. I’ve got several that I still need to load (just trying to find time, you know how that goes).
 
I want to share these resources for free. That said, I do hope you’ll buy some of the manuals on this site (so that my family and I can eat and live indoors). So, if you like what you’re seeing, please make a purchase or two. If you don’t like what you see or want more, please let me know. My goal is to help churches – that’s what my boss (aka, God) asks me to do.
 
And tell your friends about this site, please.
 
Thanks and Merry Christmas