While any organization that deals with money, including a church, places a great deal of trust in those who are responsible for handling the money, it is also a good idea to be cautious. Churches especially tend to believe that they can trust the treasurer to handle finances appropriately, but even those within a church
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Credit card fraud can affect any type of organization or business. Although it is less common in churches, this doesn’t mean that your church cannot be affected by it. Due to the fact that a church doesn’t typically sell anything, most of the fraud cases that affect this type of organization don’t come from individuals
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When a church is in its earliest stages, one of the most important forms of protection that it can provide to its staff, employees, and hired contractors is workers’ compensation. Even though a church is not a for-profit organization, they must still abide by various laws that are designed to protect workers and employees when
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It’s a pretty common situation. <i>A Pastor is asked to go to the hospital and pray for someone’s sick loved one, member of the congregation or not. He goes, and the patient, or the patient’s family, verbally explains the full nature of their illness to him for prayer purposes. At the next church service, the
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Recently, we were told of the ordeal a church went through when they needed to replace the windows of their older 15 passenger bus. They called the church insurance company to open the claim, then took the bus to Safelite Auto to get the repairs done. However, Safelite Auto was not able to handle the
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Injuries, lawsuits, and legal technicalities are not usually sitting on the front burner of religious workers’ minds, but accidents do not shy away from entering the doors of the church- they happen everywhere, know no bounds. The law applies as scrupulously down to the details as it affects religious institutions as it does to non-religious
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Your church can be a hazardous place for a variety of reasons. What kind of people can get injured in and around a sanctuary? Any kind of person, that’s who. For example, people in their mid-60s and up are at the biggest risk of being hurt, according to Medicare statistics. As you’d expect, the next
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When the typical person thinks of church, that individual does not often think about crime. Indeed, many people consider a church to be what essentially might be considered a crime free zone. The stark (and sad) reality is that churches everywhere can become the scenes of crimes, particularly financial ones. For this reason, it is
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Making certain that a church facility is safe for employers and visitors is an essential part of effective risk management. Churches located in cold weather areas should take particular care to include ice management as part of their overall safety plan. Church leaders can ask for advice concerning the management of accumulated and melted ice
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Ice is no friend to a church or its properties. Icing of roof and driveways are obvious sources of liability, but it is icing of plumbing and fixtures and refrigeration and air conditioning piping which will materially affect the maintenance budget of any church. To ameliorate effects of freezing, Church Insurance can be customized to
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