Stewardship of Life

Building a Narrative Budget

By Rob Blezard, September 19, 2013

Many congregations have discovered the narrative budget as a way of talking about the needs of the church to carry out its mission. Rather than a spreadsheet that lists columns and columns of numbers, the narrative budget tells the story of the congregation’s mission and service and how the budget components contribute.  (Photo by Howard Lake, used by Creative Commons license. Thanks!)