Stewardship: An Insurance Strategy for Your Church & Ministry

by Jack W. Bruce, Jr.

Churches and ministries know well the meaning of stewardship. We not only teach it, but we also do our best to practice good stewardship. Pausing to contemplate stewardship, we come to realize that a good stewardship strategy for our ministries will include selecting the right health insurance broker and benefits plan.

Typically, when we hear the word ?stewardship? our minds immediately drift to money. However, being a good steward of our financial resources is only a start. Sure, we all want to save money with a comprehensive policy at the most economical price. Yet, choosing the right health insurance broker affects our stewardship in more areas than just our finances.

Neglecting the nurture and care of our bodies can seriously hinder our outreach and ministry efforts. By providing your staff with a medical insurance policy & plan that promotes wellness, encourages regular check-ups, pushes early detection of illness, and makes available adequate medical treatment, you are promoting good stewardship of one your ministry?s most valuable resources.

Furthermore, the decision you make in choosing a broker can also determine your effectiveness in being a good steward of your time. Additionally, churches and ministries can take advantage of the available technological tools that are designed to reduce the amount of time it takes to answer the benefit questions raised by your staff throughout the year. BIS Benefits provides its clients with online Human Resources information and online communication portals that truly work to reduce time spent in responding to benefit questions by employees.

Not all health insurance brokers are the same. Therefore, a ministry that is keenly aware of the various faces of stewardship will be careful to choose a broker who will not only find the right policies at a reasonable cost, but who will also provide the ministry with the opportunity to exercise stewardship on several fronts.

Jack W. Bruce, Jr
Jack Bruce serves as the Operations Manager for BIS Benefits, Inc. in Alpharetta, GA (metro Atlanta). Before coming to BIS Benefits, he served on church staffs in Tennessee and Atlanta.
?BIS Benefits, Inc. 2006