It has been eight years since my last blog post. Life has a way of changing the time you have available to "cover all the bases." After writing 327 blog posts, life's busyness took over.
In 2013 I started a ministry department for the Illinois District Council that eventually became known as Your Church Admin. Our original goal was to offer church management and accounting software to our Illinois Assemblies of God churches. I would demo the software to pastors and church leaders, develop their software sites, and support their use of the software with phone calls, emails, on-site training, and other support methods. We knew there was a lot of interest in this because a district wide survey had shown widespread interest. What we did not anticipate was the turn the ministry would take in the first summer of operation.
At the on-site training session for one of our first churches, as we approached the end of the session, the pastor said "this is all well and good, and we are excited about the possibilities, but what we really need in addition to using the software is for someone to actually do some of the bookkeeping and accounting functions for us." Our district CFO had joined me on this training trip and as you might imagine, we had quite a conversation on the way home. The conversation with this pastor changed way we looked at the ministry we had begun. Over the next eight years it would expand to be primarily a bookkeeping and accounting service to nearly 100 churches and church ministries and we would process hundreds of payrolls every month. In 2015 I hired my first employee after nearly burning out because of our rapid expansion, and today their are nine employees that work either full or part time for Your Church Admin. Over the next few weeks I'll tell some of the stories of YCA and how God has blessed us as we have blessed so many churches and church leaders. BTW, I retired from this wonderful ministry at the end of February, 2022. Younger and innovative leaders are now moving this wonderful ministry forward.
