Divisional: Finance

Health and Value:
  • Finance supports the YL MMVN value of Stewardship - Observing the highest standards of stewardship of all the resources placed in our trust.
  • Finance facilitates strategy, planning, performance monitoring, cost control, risk management, stakeholder communication, and compliance/reporting.
  • A healthy finance function operates with approaches to all of the above with a “kingdom mindset”, following the footsteps and teaching of Jesus.
Healthy Financial Systems to Reach the Next Kid
Lesson Objectives

Through this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Explain the biblical foundations for healthy financial systems.
  • Describe how healthy financial systems help teams reach the next kid
  • Analyze their financial systems in their own geography to identify strengths and points that might need to change.
INTRODUCTION

Let's start with a short self-reflection: In a word, how do you feel when you hear the word ‘finance’ in ministry?”

Your answer could be a wide range of responses - from “straightforward” to “challenging” to “confusing.” We all come in with different thoughts and feelings, but through these lessons, we hope that we will move toward clarity and simplicity.

The International Finance Team has put together the Christian Stewardship Training for not only the i100 participants to complete and learn from, but for anyone else in the mission who might need to learn these same principles.

Please complete the training below. When you have finished, return to this page to page for reflection

Christian STEWARDSHIP TRAINING
REFLECTION

Now that you have completed the International Stewardship Training above, reflect on the following questions

  1. Is there anyone else on your team that you think needs to complete this training?
  2. When you think about this training, who (not just names, but positions, Area Directors, volunteers, etc) and when (at what time in their Young Life journey) should someone complete this training?
Being Audit-Ready: Integrity in Action
Lesson Objectives

Through this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the purpose and value of internal and external audits in ministry.
  • Understand how to be prepared for an audit—before it happens.
  • Identify areas of improvement and training needs within their teams to stay audit-ready.