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Our Church and Small Ministry Services

We have added a business component that trains and consults to small and medium churches, and small evangelical ministries, including foreign missions. These associates charge significant lower fees to qualifying churches and ministries (by size and budget). They are backed up by Broadbaker senior associates for a modest fee.

Financial Oversight:

We can train and advise such organizations and their boards on how to achieve responsible, protective financial control to prevent (or turn around) entering the dangerous zone of insolvency (see especially Ron Mattocks, Zone of Insolvency, John Wiley and Sons, 2008), what guidelines and policies boards should set (and why), and how to monitoring and enforce. This is an absolutely vital part of board responsibility, and boards, especially those of churches and small ministries are inadequately trained nor do they govern effectively in this area. Even if boards may know appropriate financial "guidelines," they often don't know how to convert them to policies, much less how to monitor effectively or how to enforce them. Without monitoring and enforcement, governance is meaningless and impotent (see a Nov 2009 blog).

Board Governance:

Our associates are trained sufficiently to train and coach evangelical ministries in the fundamentals of Policy Governance. We conceptualize Policy Governance expertise by levels, with level IV and V being Carver Academy trained and increasingly sophisticated and informed in the relevant law, finances, monitoring, ends thinking and planning, board dynamics and facilitation. Small churches and ministries do not necessarily need this level and we can provide level III (up through training and basic coaching) for a lower fee.

Organizational Performance:

One of our associates is extremely seasoned and experienced as a a foreign missionary, and a pastor of 3 evangelical churches; besides theologically and pastorally trained, he is trained in ministry organizational behavior and dynamics. He consults in church polity and dynamics and can assist churches in grace-based conflict resolution, including elder and/or board-pastor conflict. he also understands and is a level III consultant in Policy Governance.

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