GuideStone

DALLAS (BP) -- Helping ministers achieve financial security and resilience so they can focus on their ministry calling remained the focus of GuideStone’s ministry activities in 2024 and will remain the focus in the months and years to come, noted President Hance Dilbeck.

People struggle from the end of November to the beginning of January. The holidays are difficult. Unrealistic expectations clash with cold hard realities. Everyone around us is pretending and projecting the same false narrative –“All is merry and bright.” As a man who is beginning to qualify for the senior citizen discount, as a husband, father, and grandfather of 10, as one who served as a pastor for 30 years, I need to tell you. “Merry and bright” is true for next to no one.

SALT LAKE CITY (BP) -- GuideStone trustees heard various reports from staff related to executing the enterprise’s Reach strategic plan, received the audit committee report and heard a strong report from Mission:Dignity.

Survey finds pastors struggle with financial, physical, mental stresses; GuideStone’s inaugural Kingdom Impact Report highlights more ways Christians can help transform the world.

DALLAS (BP) — The deadline is fast approaching for churches wanting to contribute to the survey used widely for determining comparable staff wages and benefits in their upcoming budgets. June 30 is the last day for churches to share their information.

Is your pastor making a living wage? Our pastors willingly carry many burdens on their congregation’s behalf, but financial hardship should not be one of them. When they answered the call to ministry, they didn’t go in with the expectation of building wealth but they did hope to earn a solid income to provide for themselves and their families and to finish well financially. 

Mission:Dignity Sunday June 23; New overtime rules for salaried employees may impact churches.

Helping ministers achieve financial security and resilience so they can focus on their ministry calling served as a key theme in GuideStone President Hance Dilbeck’s report to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting June 13.

NASHVILLE (BP) – If SBC messengers ask a question following this year’s GuideStone Financial Resources report in Indianapolis, health insurance is likely to be the topic. Since 2019, messengers to the SBC Annual Meeting have twice asked GuideStone chief executives questions. Both times the inquiries focused on the rising costs of health insurance.

‘Lead On’ podcast finds new home as Iorg moves to SBC Executive Committee; Federal conspiracy case against the SBC Executive Committee voluntarily dismissed; Mission:Dignity recipients receive extra checks thanks to efforts of state Baptist conventions