Deciding if it is time to outsource your bookkeeping responsibilities can be complex. Your church may have an administrative staff member who helps with the bookkeeping, but the church could be better served by freeing them to focus on ministry tasks rather than bookkeeping. Your church may be a new church plant that finds yourselves overwhelmed with ministry needs and would be better served by having an outside church bookkeeper take that task from your already overcrowded plate. Or your church may have an outstanding church bookkeeper who serves the church well, passionately serves with their gifts, and are an invaluable member of the ministry team.
Your church may or may not relate to the examples written above. Each church is unique in the way they function and operate. as each church is unique in the way they function and operate. However, there are a few key factors we have found that distinguishes a church who is ready to outsource their bookkeeping:
The staff member in charge of bookkeeping responsibilities is inexperienced or overwhelmed by the addition of bookkeeping tasks to their responsibilities.
Your Bookkeeper or Administrative Staff Member is leaving or reducing their hours.
Your Treasurer or Leadership is better served by an overview of the accounting information rather than dealing with the day to day details of bookkeeping.
The Church has room in their budget to reallocate staff time to other ministry tasks.
Working with excellent church bookkeepers, Treasurers, administrative Pastors, and solo Pastors every day, Wisdom knows that finding the right time to outsource your bookkeeping is important.
Wisdom Over Wealth guides churches in their finances in both situations. We walk alongside the in-house church Treasurer or bookkeeper in an ongoing relationship with our Stewardship Program ; providing, where we provide counsel and advice, additional internal controls, and professional leadership reports. Wisdom’s Stewardship Plus Program is for those churches who wish to outsource their bookkeeping. Stewardship Plus provides the maximum amount of controls, professional reporting, and the best possible execution of fiduciary responsibility.
If you think either of these financial solutions would fit your church’s needs don’t hesitate to give us a call. We will talk with you to see if these Wisdom Solutions are right for you.
