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NACBA TeleWeb Series

Advantages of Participating in TeleWeb . . .
FAST - No wasted time here. Get right to the heart of the matter in a 1-hour blocked presentation and Q & A, designed to fit your busy schedule.
CONVENIENT - No airlines. No travel. No time out of the office. Listen from the comfort and convenience of your desk and at your own time.
EASY - A computer with Internet access and a phone connection for audio is the only equipment you need. 
IDEAL FOR MULTIPLE PARTICIPANTS - As many people as you want can listen in at your church- at no extra cost to you.
AFFORDABLE - Priced at $59 for National NACBA Members and $69 for non-NACBA Members, it is a fraction of the cost of travel and attendance fees of other conferences and seminars.

Topic will include:

• Mission trip funding
• Tax issues for the congregation and individuals
  • Can I deduct a trip?
  • What if we have kids work to go on a trip?
  • Is it deducible if contribute to a fun for mission trip?
• International tax rules for churches that send money overseas or directly sponsor missionaries.

As the US economy appears to be in recovery mode congregations like never before need unique strategies to help shape the future of generous members. This dynamic leadership session will focus on ways you can step outside the traditional stewardship promotion box to build an atmosphere of generous members.

Generosity is all around us.

Leave this session with your outline to create a generosity plan.

This discussion centers around how we “measure up”. We’ll discuss financial performance measurements as compared to ourselves and how we can compare to other churches. We will look at:

• Inward comparisons – trends within our church
• Balance sheet ratios – such as debt comparisons
• Expense ratios – should salaries be this much of the budget?

There is a lot of conversation in the design world about the US Green Building Council's Leadership in  Energy and Environmental Design Certification for new buildings.  However, the LEED Rating system reaches beyond that.  The LEED for Existing Buildings Rating System helps building owners and operators measure operations, improvements and maintenance on a consistent scale with a goal of maximizing operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impacts.  

Is Your Congregation at Risk of Fraud?
with Verne Hargrave

• What is it?
• Why do it?
• When to do it?
• Who should be involved?
• How to do it: Plan Development?
• How to do it: Plan Implementation?

• Elements of a self-assessment for a congregation
• Threat assessment and key observations
• Affirm current practice and project future needs
• Strategies to engage others to focus on prevention
• Leave this session with concrete ideas for next steps!

Presented February 26, 2009

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Financial Management in Tough Economic Times
with Paul Clark

Most churches have seen some decline in giving due to the economic pressures facing the people in our pews.  As unemployment continues to rise and economic forecasts remain gloomy, churches must do everything possible to practice wise stewardship and financial management.  The months ahead will require thoughtful response on the part of church administrators and leaders, being both prayerfully dependent on God, and wise and proactive in financial planning.  This webinar will explore how to deal with tough financial times through planning, budgeting, managing, leading and responding to the challenging circumstances impacting our churches.

Participants will:

Explore best practices in budgeting and increasing congregational ownership

Identify budget areas that can yield the greatest savings

Learn tips for maintaining high staff morale during budget pressure

Examine alternatives to reducing staff

Consider ways to increase your leadership value to the organization

Presented January 29, 2009

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The definition of "second chair leader

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The value of serving in the second chair

Three key paradoxes every second chair faces

How to use these paradoxes to become more effective

Ways to strengthen their relationships with the "first chair"

Reflect on three fundamental models of how leaders get things done

Learn a ten step model for expanding power and influence

Examine the borrowed, granted and earned power bases that build a leader's capacity for influence

Learn to choose appropriate and ethical forms of influence in congregational settings

Recognize inappropriate influence attempts on the part of others and learn how to respond to them

Explore the dynamics of trust in building influence capacity

Preparing For A Public Health Crisis - Ministry & Hope During The Pending Pandemic Influenza
with Lewis Saylor, CCA

Given the probability of a pandemic influenza or a similar illness reaching every community in the country, the question becomes . . . How do religious leaders, clergy, laity, and church staff begin to plan for a prolonged wave of illness?

How are churches to prepare for a pandemic flu outbreak?

What steps can be taken to prevent and/or contain the spread of the flu within congregation?

How will ministry be conducted during this intense form of the flu outbreak?

How will churches maintain their operations?

Understanding Background Checks
with  Sandra Brewer, Pinnacle Investigations

The need for background and security checks for staff and volunteers has become standard procedure in local congregations but there is still a great deal of confusion about which checks to conduct and how this information can and should be processed. Attend this seminar and gain essential knowledge on managing your churches process.
Learn the truth about background checks 

Leaders Summit with Dr. Don McMinn

It will take about 14 minutes. After completing, print your results and have them with you during the seminar. See how your skill levels match those of other strong church leaders.

Developing leadership skills is essential to success in ministry. It is a journey of life long learning.  Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about yourself while becoming a more effective leader.

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Winning Grants to Strengthen Your Ministry

 with Joy Skjegstad

Presented January 24, 2008

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This update will provide you with information on contributions and the requirements of reporting

• Charitable Contributions
• Tax and Financial Reporting Requirements
• Discussion includes contributions to missionaries, benevolence funds and scholarships.

CHURCH SECURITY

 with Chuck Chadwick

CHURCH COPYRIGHT

with Ami Williams

This workshop is a must for churches who use printed or audio/visual materials. It gives you knowledge of copyright laws,  CCLI and CVLI licenses, public performance exemption for churches and the pros and cons of registering your church’s works.

STAFF COMPENSATION & THE NACBA SURVEY

with Phill Martin

This workshop is a must for the purchasers of the salary survey. The National Church Staff Compensation Survey is a great source of information and Phill will walk you though the full capabilities of the survey.

Generosity: Empowering a Stewardship Lifestyle

with Ruben Swint

This workshop will assist churches in understanding the new model for stewardship and provide information on:            

• After a half-century of church budgets, pledging and campaigning, is it time for a new model for stewardship?

• What would it mean for your congregation if generosity became a guiding value?

Five Pillars of Church Risk Management

 with Jeff Hanna

This workshop will provide information on:

• Prepare: How to become proactive in preparing in a way that will reduce your risk

• Protect: Putting the elements in place to protect the people that are in your care

• Preserve: Critical steps toward making sure property and resources are preserved

• Pray: The important component throughout the process

• Prosper: By taking a comprehensive approach your ministry can prosper

Invite your finance and stewardship chair to join you, or give them access after the seminar. 

This workshop is a must for the latest thinking on funding the ministry of your congregation.  It will cover practical helps for the staff in charge of motivating and explaining giving which supports the mission of the church.

Whither you need a new approach or just a little tune- up in your program, you will not want to miss this excellent seminar.

Invite your finance and stewardship chair to join you, or give them access after the seminar. 

PREPARE FOR THE WORST; RESPOND WITH YOUR BEST
What You Might Not Know About Church Emergency Preparation and Response

with Jeff Hanna

Churches are often quick to respond to an emergency.  Yet many are learning the hard way that good intentions and faithfulness to purpose is not enough.  Churches without a plan to respond will often take action that is ill-advised, incomplete, or incorrect, placing the entire ministry and the people from their church at risk.

This seminar will assist churches in understanding the areas of concern and begin the process of putting a plan into place that will make your response both faithful and responsible.

Three primary emergency response areas will be discussed: Internal Emergencies, Local/Regional Emergencies, and National Emergencies.  Beyond understanding the issues you’ll receive checklists, forms, samples and additional resources

Presented April 13, 2006
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Thou shalt learn your 10 Financial Commandments or Repent!  In this uncertain financial time it is important to understand strong financial practice from a legal perspective. Look at this critical review of 10 financial commandments!
Learn how to:
- avoid financial disasters in your congregation
- identify common financial practices that likely spell doom for your church
- and understand various ways to avoid them.

"Gun in Church?"
This session will address the legal issues arising from violence in churches. From parking lot fights to shootings in offices and sanctuaries, we will look at the church's responsibility to provide a safe workplace environment and the church's duty to maintain a safe place for members and visitors to worship.  
The session will include sample policies for churches to consider to prevent liability for violence if it should occur.

This tax and legal update explores the unique landscape of digital communications and networking.

• Legal issues in a digital download age.
• Website and church liability.
• Church employees and who owns what on the web?
• What every administrative leader needs to know about email rights.

Year end is a critical time for church administration. Plan well and year-end goes well. Leave it to chance and year-end requirements can lead to complications at audit time.  In this difficult financial climate it is more important than ever to review the laws and changes that affect the year-end. Join us for this TeleWeb on:

Year End Traps for 2009:

• Contribution cut off rules
• Christmas gifts  -- Taxable versus nontaxable
• Housing Allowance Designation Rules
• Other year end questions during

Church by-laws are the backbone of congregational governance. Properly drafted and maintained good governance documents can support a congregation through conflict, transition and keep the ministry on track. The time to evaluate and review your legal documents is now before they become the source of direction in the midst of a controversial church issue. By-Laws are a dynamic document and must be continually reviewed for changes in law and application to the changing church environment it supports.

Review the essentials of the churches by-laws




Identify changes in the law that may now affect your current documents




Review the appropriate processes for keeping this dynamic document current




Discover new elements that may now affect your legacy documents

403 (b) - Do you know the limits and compliance issues? New regulations go into effect soon. Be sure you understand by participating in this seminar. "

The IRS has announced that they are focusing on compensation issues in 2008.
Are you keeping adequate records to substantiate your tax deductions?
An IRS official stated at a conference that he considered cell phones as an automatic excess benefit transaction unless the employee submits detailed records.

• Learn selected parts of the 2008 Form 990
• Show churches how they can use it as a tool to document compliance with tax laws
• Compensation and Foreign Activity schedules
  

With Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, investigating six prominent churches for possible financial misconduct, rumors abound about the possible impact of this investigation on local churches. Many churches incorrectly assume that they are unaffected by Sen. Grassley's actions. Nothing could be further from the truth. Separate fact from rumor and “get out in front” with lessons learned from the Grassley letters.

• Intellectual Property
     What are rules about ownership?
     How does tax law impact planning in this area
     How to decide who owns the sermon? Song?
        Sunday school lesson? Drama? Videos?
• Nonqualified Deferred compensation
     What is deferred compensation?
     What is a rabbi trust?
     What are the rules regarding payments to retired
        ministers? Employees?

• What is compensation and how is it reported?
• Setting compensation the right way
• Intermediate sanctions and compensation

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• Unrelated Business Income - the Ultimate Tax Trap
• Hiring and Supervising a Lawyer
• Expanded Q&A Session

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• Year end contribution issues
• New year contribution issues
• Housing allowances for 2007

• NEW Pension Reform Act 2006 -- biggest changes for tax
       exempts since 1969

• The NAACP and its impact on political activity

• Plus your Q&A on Tax and Legal matters...

Presented July 13, 2006

• Scholarships
• Missions Trips
• Political Activity
• Sales Tax
• General Q&A after presentation

Presented March 30, 2006

• Record retention
• Contract labor versus employee
• W-2 versus 1099
• and other timely issues followed by an open Q&A.

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Presented November 4, 2005

• New Charitable Gift Incentives

• Year End Contributions

  • cut off issues

  • stocks and non-cash gifts

  • receipts... what and when

• Staff gifts... how do we handle.

• Benevolence rules that may affect you.

• Party expenses

• and other end of the year considerations.

Presented June 28, 2005

•  Interns: What are they for legal and tax purposes
•  Fringe benefits: taxable or not?

•  Tax issues for Fall Festivals

•  Handling a Crisis – Legal, Tax and PR issue

• and more...

Presented March 31, 2005

• Why expense reports are more important than ever
• When your church must pay overtime
• How to avoid lawsuits against your church
• What housing expenses qualify for housing allowances
• and more...

Presented October 27, 2005

• What background checks should I request?
• How often should I conduct a background check?
• Now that I have the report... what do I do with it?
• and more...