Financial Meltdown in the Mainline?
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- 1998
Zusammenfassung
Intentionally provocative, Alban founder and former president Loren Mead’s dynamic work sets out dramatic and compelling challenges for today’s churches. Mead chose the word "meltdown"-a strong term, indeed-very carefully and consciously. His clarion call urges congregations to direct attention to their dwindling financial resources and their unreliable fiscal practices, and to take major action now-or face disaster in the future. Mead addresses changing church giving patterns; the inconsistent ways congregations keep financial records; the lack of coordinated short- and long-range planning; the need for knowledge of sound financial techniques such as accounting for inflation; an over-reliance on "restructuring" to fix problems; and lack of defensive planning for operational costs.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Copyrightjahr
- 1998
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-56699-197-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-56699-522-1
- Verlag
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 144
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
- FOREWORD Kein Zugriff
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kein Zugriff
- CHAPTER 1: Why the "Nuclear" Alarm? Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 7
- CHAPTER 2: What's Visible to the Naked Eye Kein Zugriff Seiten 8 - 32
- CHAPTER 3: Uncertainties in Our Future Kein Zugriff Seiten 33 - 65
- CHAPTER 4: How Did We Get Here? Kein Zugriff Seiten 66 - 80
- CHAPTER 5: Doubletalk about a Double Problem Kein Zugriff Seiten 81 - 88
- CHAPTER 6: What, Then, Can We Do? Kein Zugriff Seiten 89 - 110
- CHAPTER 7: The Heart of the Matter Kein Zugriff Seiten 111 - 122
- CHAPTER 8: Money and Churches: Crisis or Opportunity Kein Zugriff Seiten 123 - 126
- APPENDIX A: Guidelines for Endowed Congregations Kein Zugriff Seiten 127 - 128
- APPENDIX B: Caught in the Financial Bind: Reflections on Clergy and Money Kein Zugriff Seiten 129 - 132
- NOTES Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 142
- BIBLIOGRAPHY Kein Zugriff Seiten 143 - 144





