A significant part of the job of pastors and Christian leaders is to raise finance for their teams and ministries. John Stevens and Richard Coekin help us think through how Christian leaders can raise finances for gospel work in ways that are biblical, godly, wise and effective.
A biblical framework for finance raising - 2 Corinthians 8-9
John Stevens, national director for the Fellowship of Independent Churches
How to 'help the weak' - Acts 20:35
Audio:
Resources:
- Raising Financial Resources (table)
- Richard Coekin on 6 kinds of money (13 min video covering some of the material from the seminar more briefly)
- On income generation by hiring out church premises see Edward Connor on when you can refuse a hirer and Ecclesiastical Insurance on Risk management.
- Fundraising Tools (Reach resource)
- Cultivating Generosity (Reach resource)
