Financial Stewardship & Accountability
Stewardship is about being the best possible manager of what God has given us.
Hope’s stewardship ministry helps families understand and practically apply God’s truth about money, so they can experience freedom, peace, and purpose.
Generosity Pathway
Learn more about a biblical approach to giving.
Financial Worksheets
Download standardized financial worksheets on demand to help you with planning. Resources include a spending plan, a family balance sheet, a debt-reduction plan, a daily spending record and a monthly spending record.
Financial Coaching
Unlock financial peace at your pace with Hope’s Financial Coaching video collection. These approachable lessons guide you step-by-step to build confidence, clarity, and real-world money skills so you can move toward your financial goals with hope and purpose.
Find them in the Media tab on the Hope App.
Meet with a Coach
Hope’s volunteer financial coaching team would be happy to serve you by reviewing your current financial situation and helping you develop a plan of action.
If you would like to schedule a time to meet one-on-one with someone from our phenomenal financial coaching serve team, please click below to reach out.
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Financial Accountability
Financial transparency and accountability are incredibly important to us. We strive to honor God’s gifts through wise and faithful stewardship and ethical business practices.
2026 Budget Review Meeting
Stay informed about Hope’s finances and how we’re stewarding all we’ve been given so that our communities and all the world would know and experience the love of God and the life that Jesus came to make available. Here’s what’s included:
- A comprehensive overview of our budget
- Important financial updates
- Key ministry priorities for the upcoming year
Questions? Click below to let us know.
Financial Accountability Operating Principles
Hope Community Church is accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which requires high standards of biblical accountability, board governance, financial transparency, integrity in fundraising, and proper use of charity resources.
Our Finance and Accounting staff includes experienced individuals with prior experience from various industries. Our staff have various professional certifications, and we support continued education for maintenance of professional licenses.
Our Finance Committee consists of non-staff individuals with extensive financial management experience in a variety of industries who serve minimum two-year terms. The committee meets monthly to review financial results and forecasts, provide oversight during the annual budgeting process, and provide the Elders and staff with financial guidance on strategic and operational issues.
All gifts by cash and check are collected by individuals on Hope’s Safety & Security Team. The offerings are then counted by two members of our Accounting Team with appropriate segregation of duties, checks and balances. Our online giving platform is PCI compliant ensuring the highest level of security.
Our annual budget development process involves the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Finance Committee and Elders to ensure allocation of resources across our ministries and operations that best enable Hope’s vision and mission. The ELT develops the detailed annual budget that is reviewed by the Finance Committee and approved by the Elders.
We participate in two national annual surveys of church staff compensation that provide us with data collected and consolidated by independent, third parties. Our Human Resources team uses that data to review and validate compensation levels annually for every staff position to ensure we can attract and retain top talent while remaining in line with churches of a similar size. Further, our HR Committee consisting of staff and Elders review and approve executive compensation.
Every year we voluntarily undergo an organization-wide audit performed by an independent, certified public accounting firm. To date, we have met the high standards of scrutiny for these audits every year.
Financial transparency and accountability at Hope is incredibly important to us. In these practices and in all that we do, we strive to honor God’s provision by pursuing wise and faithful stewardship, ethical business practices, and transparent accountability. Should you have any questions, contact us at accounting@gethope.net.
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