Finance Team Orientation & Training
Equip your ministry's finance team with a practical understanding of financial responsibilities, internal safeguards, financial reporting, and budgeting. This two-hour orientation, grounded in The Ministry of Money, prepares treasurers and other financial leaders to serve with clarity, accountability, and faithful stewardship.
Practical Preparation for Financial Stewardship
Church Training Center’s two-hour Finance Team Orientation & Training is designed for people serving in financial management and oversight roles, whether newly appointed or experienced. Participants may include treasurers, finance committee members, governing-body members with financial oversight responsibilities, pastors, and other ministry leaders.
The orientation serves congregations, denominational bodies, church schools, parachurch organizations, and other ministry nonprofits.
When Finance Team Orientation May Be Helpful
Welcoming New Treasurers and Finance Members
Beginning a New Leadership Term
Clarifying Financial Responsibilities
Strengthening Reporting and Oversight
What Your Finance Team Will Learn
Financial stewardship is a shared ministry responsibility. This two-hour orientation combines practical instruction, discussion, and examples to help finance leaders understand their roles, apply responsible procedures, and use financial information to support the ministry’s Calling.
Roles & Financial Responsibilities
Understand the responsibilities of treasurers, finance committees, staff, pastoral leaders, and governing bodies, including financial authority, approvals, and accountability.
Financial Safeguards & Procedures
Examine essential practices for handling contributions, approving payments, documenting transactions, reconciling accounts, and maintaining appropriate financial controls.
Understanding Financial Reports
Learn to interpret essential financial statements and budget comparisons, recognize financial concerns, and ask informed questions through a practical reporting example.
Budgeting & Financial Oversight
Understand the finance team’s role in preparing, reviewing, and monitoring budgets while considering available resources, financial obligations, and ministry priorities.
Included: The Ministry of Money
A copy of The Ministry of Money: A Treasurer’s Role in the Mission of the Church by Keith Clark-Hoyos is included with the orientation. The book offers additional guidance and reflection for continued learning beyond the session.
Continue with Guided Learning
Church Training Center also offers The Ministry of Money as a multiweek Guided Learning program. Participants read and reflect between weekly facilitated conversations, exploring financial leadership in the context of their own ministries.
Churches and ministry organizations can commission a program for their leadership teams; denominational bodies can bring leaders together from multiple congregations. Guided Learning is arranged separately from the two-hour orientation.
Prepare Your Finance Team for Faithful Stewardship
Whether welcoming new financial leaders or strengthening an existing team, Church Training Center
can help your ministry build shared understanding of financial responsibilities and responsible oversight.