Upcoming Webinars


Keeping Up: The Evolving Role of Finance Leaders
Keeping Up: The Evolving Role of Finance Leaders
2024 State of Giving and Financial Outlook
2024 State of Giving and Financial Outlook

Webinar Recordings


Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on September 24, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

How effective is your church’s digital strategy in leading people closer to Jesus? How well are you engaging people in online discipleship and generosity? To answer these questions, ECFA, along with Ministry Solutions Group and Gloo, recruited leading pioneers in digital ministry from 112 leading churches to share their best practices. This webinar will unveil findings from the first-ever national research project on this topic. In addition to survey findings, interviews include Crossroads Church, Elevation Church, Liquid Church, Sandals Church, Church of Eleven 22, Eagle Brook, and others.

If you want to learn more about engaging people both in person and online, developing a holistic culture of generosity and discipleship, and reaching your community more effectively, you won’t want to miss this practical, idea-filled hour. 

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
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Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on August 6, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

Ministry leaders are required to stay on top of lots of different things, this includes compliance with laws. Join Dustin Gaines of My Church Law firm as he discusses the requirements to comply with State Charitable Solicitation Laws and answers some of the most common questions that organizations ask.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
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Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on June 5, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

Beginning in July, the U.S. Department of Labor is significantly increasing the salary threshold necessary for an exemption from overtime obligations. Tune in to this webinar to learn more from issue experts about what you need to know, including the effect of the ministerial exception and the new regulation’s relationship to state wage-and-hour rules. You’ll also learn practical tips about compliance for part-time salaried workers, potential salary to hourly pay conversions, and more.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
FREE FREE

Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on April 30, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

ECFA recently announced the new Leadership Standard! This standard enhances trust through the board's proactive care for the leader's personal, professional, spiritual, and relational health.
Together, we can raise the standard of Christ-centered leader care for the next generation! Ministry is a marathon, not a sprint... No leader should have to run it alone.

In this informative webinar, join us as Michael Martin, ECFA’s President and CEO, and Jake Lapp, ECFA’s Vice President of Member Accountability, answer your questions about the new standard.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
FREE FREE

Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on March 26, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

Healthy leadership is crucial to ministry effectiveness and trust. Join ECFA’s President & CEO Michael Martin, along with special guests Jay Bransford (Best Christian Workplaces) and Tami Heim (Christian Leadership Alliance), as they share the importance of investing in leader care based on biblical principles. You will be equipped with practical insights on why the holistic integrity of leaders is vital to ministry flourishing and how boards and leaders can be proactive in supporting healthy leadership.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
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Join us as we explore the latest updates from Capitol Hill that will be affecting ECFA churches and ministries. 

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
FREE FREE

Webinar Recording Details

  • Duration: 60-Minute Recording
  • Includes: Recording Link & PowerPoint Presentation
  • Delivery Method: By email 1-3 business days after the live webinar on January 24, 2024
  • Continuing Education Credit: Not offered for the recording.

Description

Don’t be overwhelmed this tax season!  ECFA is here to help with our 2024 tax and finance guides designed to simplify some of the most challenging tax compliance issues for ministers and churches and nonprofit organizations.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
FREE FREE

Description

It’s time for the ECFA’s annual State of Giving webinar! This practical, research-based presentation unveils two major research projects. We’ll look at the past, unpacking historic giving trends among ECFA’s members, including fresh insights coming out of the pandemic. We’ll also look at the future based on a recent financial outlook survey.
 
The report findings presented in this webinar can help you plan by:

  • Observing short-term and long-term trends in charitable giving
  • Exploring current trends in 2023 giving and the financial outlook toward 2024
  • Comparing/benchmarking changes in giving to your organization against ministries or churches similar to yours
  • Educating staff and board members on the broader context of giving patterns

Continuing Education Credit

We are unable to offer continuing education credits for this webinar recording.

ECFA-Accredited Organizations Registered Users
FREE FREE