Church Treasurer Training Webinar
Church Treasurer Training Webinar
The Synod of the Northeast will offer a Church Treasurer Training webinar on January 27 at 6:45 p.m., led by Diane Case and Edd Brenden. This Zoom-based training is designed for church treasurers and financial leaders seeking practical guidance, clarity, and confidence in managing congregational finances.
The session will provide hands-on instruction and dedicated time for questions and discussion. Participants will explore ten core topics essential to effective and faithful financial stewardship in the local church:
- Basic Best Practices
- Handling Inflows
- Handling Outflows
- Keeping Good Records
- Supplying Accurate Reports
- Donor Statements
- Avoiding Fraud
- Financial Reviews
- Exemptions
- Security Issues
Edd Brenden has been an ordained pastor for more than 50 years, serving five congregations and the Presbytery of San Jose (California) as Treasurer for over 20 years. A graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, Edd has served churches in Minnesota and California, worked with Merrill Lynch, and owned his own tax preparation firm. He is the author of several books available on Amazon, including The Church Treasurer’s Manual, The Handbook for Church Treasurers, The Volunteer’s Audit Guide, and his autobiography, The Drunken Preacher.
Diane Case holds a business degree with a concentration in nonprofit organizations from Fresno State University (California). She has served as the full-charge accountant for the Presbytery of San Jose for 32 years, bringing deep expertise in church and nonprofit financial management.
Together, Edd and Diane have led church treasurer trainings for more than 20 years, equipping congregational leaders with practical tools to reduce anxiety, increase accuracy, and strengthen financial stewardship.
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I see that we’re moving into the new vision and updating the website — great! But, we’ve lost some things…
Most importantly, I’m on the Church Treasurer Training webinar page, and there’s no link anywhere to register for the webinar! I eventually found the link in the December newsletter, but we definitely need it to be on the page about the webinar.
Also, on the Webinars main page, the description of the Church Treasurer webinar is problematic. The opening paragraph of the description (on the page for this webinar) is followed by a bulleted list, and when that text was automatically placed on the front Webinars page, the list has no punctuation.
Finally (for now), I can see the “Recent Posts” in the sidebar. (We could use a little space between the Search bar and the Recent Posts header, I think — at least as much space above the header as there is below it before the posts.) And I see the latest three blog posts on the front page. But I can’t figure out where the rest of the Blog is — it doesn’t seem to be in the top menus — and there’s no option to navigate from one post to the next. So if the Blog is supposed to be accessible in a way that people can access older posts, we need some linkages somewhere or a main Blog page with more than just the three most recent posts.
Oh, one more thing… Below the “Leave a Reply” there is a red oval that is solid white inside it. Only when I float my mouse cursor over the oval does it become visible as a button that says “POST COMMENT”.