Do Churches Pay Payroll Taxes? A Straight Answer
Yes, with important exceptions. Churches are exempt from federal income tax, but that exemption doesn’t extend to every payroll-related tax. Some payroll taxes apply to churches the same way they’d apply to any employer. Others don’t apply at all. Here’s the direct breakdown, without burying the answer in qualifications first. What Churches DO Have to […]
Purchasing Christian Financial Literacy Curriculum: What to Expect and How Pricing Works
Once a church has decided to move forward with a Christian financial literacy curriculum, rather than continuing to evaluate options, which our buyer’s guide covers, the next questions are practical: how does the purchase actually work, what’s typically included, and how is pricing usually structured. This post answers those questions directly. How Pricing Is Typically […]
How Biblical Financial Literacy Helps Break the Cycle of Poverty
It would be dishonest to claim financial literacy alone breaks the cycle of poverty. Poverty has real structural causes, access to capital, discrimination, geography, health, education access, generational wealth gaps, that a budgeting class doesn’t touch. But it would be just as dishonest to say financial education doesn’t matter. For churches doing real poverty-alleviation work […]
Christian Financial Literacy Courses for Adults: What to Look for in a Program
If you’re evaluating Christian financial literacy courses for your congregation, most of what you’ll find online falls into one of two categories: purely devotional content with no real budgeting mechanics, or generic secular personal finance material with a Bible verse added on top. Neither actually does the job well. Here’s what to actually look for […]
Financial Discipleship vs. Financial Literacy: What’s the Difference
Most churches disciple people in prayer, in Scripture, in community, and say almost nothing about money, even though it’s one of the topics Scripture addresses most directly. Financial discipleship is the deliberate choice to treat money the same way you’d treat any other area of spiritual formation: not a one-time class, but an ongoing process […]
Church Treasurer Training: What Every Volunteer Treasurer Should Know
Most church treasurers didn’t apply for the job, they got asked, said yes because someone needed to, and are now responsible for a church’s finances without ever having been formally trained for the role. If that’s you, this isn’t a criticism. It’s just the reality of how the treasurer role usually gets filled at most […]
How Small Churches Can Handle Payroll Without a Finance Team
Most payroll advice assumes you have someone whose job it is to handle payroll, an office manager, a bookkeeper, an HR person. A lot of small churches don’t have any of that. It might just be a bivocational pastor doing everything between sermons, or a volunteer treasurer squeezing payroll in around a full-time job elsewhere. […]
QuickBooks for Nonprofits vs. QuickBooks for Churches: What’s Actually Different
Here’s a question worth answering plainly before you spend any time comparing options: there is no separate “QuickBooks for Churches” product. What people usually mean by “QuickBooks for nonprofits” is standard QuickBooks Online with nonprofit-specific terminology turned on, sometimes accessed through a nonprofit discount program, not a fundamentally different piece of software built specifically for […]
How to Set Up Designated Funds in QuickBooks Online for Churches
If you’ve already read our general guide to setting up QuickBooks Online for churches, you know the Class feature is how most churches track designated and restricted funds. This post picks up exactly where that one leaves off — a practical, step-by-step walkthrough of setting designated funds up correctly, not just knowing that you should. […]
Accounting Help for Dioceses: What Catholic and Orthodox Churches Need to Know
Most church Accounting Help guidance, including a lot of what’s on our own site, assumes a single, independent congregation making its own financial decisions. That model doesn’t describe how Catholic or Orthodox parishes actually work. Parishes operate within a diocesan or jurisdictional structure, reporting to a central authority, often sharing tax-exempt status through a group […]
