13: Developing your first church budget

Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss the thing that turns church planters’ vision into reality – the church budget.

1:23 Danny talks about how he approached the budget during the first few years of his church


2:30 Lee and Danny point out the things that need to be included in the budget


3:35 Lee says he coaches church planters to be a tithing church from day one, setting aside 10 percent of everything that comes in to give outside of the doors of the church


6:46 Lee and Danny discuss how much a church plant should put into savings


7:55 Danny explains red-yellow-green light types of budget items


9:55 Lee encourages church planters to list the weekly budget need in the church program so people know what it actually takes to make the church happen


14:20 Danny asks Lee if his church ever went over its budget for the year


16:05 Lee discusses to what level he shared details of the budget with the congregation


17:15 Lee and Danny explain how the budgeting process changed for their churches as they grew