An accounting professor and professional auditor with 25 years experience teaching auditing at a college level created a “Handbook for the Church Audit Committee” as a resource for the Massachusetts Conference UCC. This document explains the role of the Audit Committee, the committee’s objective, how to complete the audit, the report, and more. Click here […]
Church Giving and The New Tax Law
From the Spring 2018 Issue of The Steward from the Insurance Board Giving to houses of worship was a truly a “win-win scenario” in 2017. Our congregants gave from their hearts in support of our mission, and, in doing so, received the opportunity to deduct those contributions on their tax returns. According to Giving USA, charitable giving to […]
All Saints Sunday
All Saints Sunday is the first Sunday in November. We celebrate long ago saints and those known to us as saints; people who inspired us by grit and determination to “keep on trying.” Many of those people are the pastors who lives shaped and influenced our own. Some of the PSEC pastors who retired years […]
Participating in the Shared Economy
If you use one of the many online platforms available to rent a spare bedroom, provide car rides, or to connect and provide a number of other goods or services, you’re involved in what is sometimes called the sharing economy. An emerging area of activity in the past few years, the sharing economy has changed […]
PSEC Gift Acceptance Policy Summary
This policy serves as a guideline to the members of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference staff, Conference Consistory, and Endowment Committee involved with accepting gifts on behalf of the Conference. This policy is intended as an internal guide and allows flexibility in treatment of gifts on a case by case basis. The entire policy can be obtained […]
501(c)3 Documentation
All churches that are members of the United Church of Christ are tax exempt under the UCC tax number. If your church is asked — usually by a vendor — to provide its 501(c)3 documentation, you need to download the document below. The relevant parts are pages 1-9 of the document below which give the […]
MissionInsite
MissionInsite is a mission context analysis tool for the churches. Because of your church’s contributions to Our Church’s Wider Mission (OCWM), you can receive free-of-charge high quality demographic research, real-time congregant analysis, and easy to use web-based discovery tools. For instructions on how to create an account, use the PSEC MissionInsite Registration. Contact Brea Rarick, brea@psec.org or […]
UCC Insurance Board Health and Dental Rates
The United Church of Christ Medical and Dental Benefits Plan assists thousands of clergy and lay employees, and their eligible dependents, in meeting ever-increasing health care costs. For more information, visit www.pbucc.org. 2019 Health and Dental Premium Rate Increase Projections 2019 Health and Dental Rates The Pension Board has created an interactive rate locator. Click […]
Compensation Guidelines
In the call to ministry, a pastor and a congregation enter into a covenantal relationship. In this relationship, the pastor pledges to care for the spiritual needs of the community and the congregation in turn pledges to care for both the spiritual and temporal needs of the pastor. An important part of these temporal needs is a just […]
Special Mission Offerings
In addition to OCWM (link), there are four Special Mission Offerings in the United Church of Christ. The offerings are One Great Hour of Sharing, Strengthen the Church, Neighbors in Need, and The Christms Fund. By contributing to OCWM basic support and these four Special Mission Offerings, churches receive a certificate for being “Five for […]
