MUST HAVE REFERENCE GUIDE

Site Map or Site Search

CHURCH ACCOUNTING PACKAGE

Guidelines Trustee/Treasurer

by William Crutcher
(Long Beach, Ca 90802)

What are the guidelines for a church trustee giving a love offering to those in need (homeless)?

Answer

That depends. If you are talking about yourself, there are no guidelines for giving a love offering to those in need.

If you are talking about taking church funds to help those in needs, most churches set up a written policy for their benevolence funds.

Zondervan 2009 Church and Nonprofit Tax and Financial Guide has some excellent guidelines on pages 196 and 197 on properly setting up a benevolence fund.

Or you could google “benevolence fund” and see some examples of other churches' written benevolence funds policies.

Hope this helps.



Church Accounting Package

www.freechurchaccounting.com

Click here to post comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Contributions .

If you want to DIY your payroll, I highly recommend you look at using Gusto! It is very user friendly and their support is awesome! Plus they know how to set up and maintain payrolls for churches and nonprofit organizations.

Note: I am a "partner" of Gusto, but as I have told you before ... I never recommend anything that we or our clients have not tried and love =)



Share this page:
Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

  1. Click on the HTML link code below.
  2. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.