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Church Employee Handbook
Template.
A complete staff handbook written for churches. Add your name, set your numbers and hand it to your team.
- ✓11 sections, 20 pages, written for churches
- ✓Editable Word file + print-ready PDF
- ✓Signature page for every staff file
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“Every growing church needs this.”Josh Howerton · Lead Pastor, Lakepointe Church
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— The problem
Pastor, if your staff policies live in your head, every hard conversation starts from scratch.
What If Every Staff Member Knew the Standard on Day One?
A complete church employee handbook, ready to edit. Put your church’s name on it, set your numbers, have it reviewed and hand every staff member the same page.
— Who wrote this
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— What you get
What’s inside
Church Employee Handbook Template — Policies and procedures for your staff team.
- 01Mission, foreword & cultureFill in your mission and strategy, and set the staff culture statements you hire and coach by.
- 02Employment relationshipStaff categories, religious-employer language, conflicts of interest, corrective action, reviews and resignations.
- 03Workplace safetyAlcohol and drugs, cameras, accidents, building security and how staff report wrongdoing.
- 04Workplace guidelinesEthics, harassment, confidentiality, dress, dating, kids at the office, attendance and personal conduct.
- 05Computers, social media & emailWhat staff can expect on church devices, what they post online and who talks to reporters.
- 06Compensation & benefitsPayroll, deductions, a note on ministers’ taxes, jury duty, military leave and paid parental leave.
- 07Paid time offVacation, Easter and Christmas blackout dates, holidays and bereavement leave, with numbers you set.
- 08Acknowledgement pageA signature page for every staff member’s personnel file.
— The plan
Three steps. Starting today.
Tell us where to send it
One short form. The PDF is on the very next screen — no trial, no card, nothing to wait for.
Make it yours in an afternoon
20 pages, 11 sections. Replace the highlighted placeholders, set your numbers and cut what doesn’t fit.
Hand it to your team
Add your name, set your numbers and have it reviewed. Then hand every staff member the same handbook and a page to sign.
If nothing changes
- —Every policy question comes to you.
- —Hard conversations start from scratch.
- —New hires learn the culture by accident.
With a handbook
- ✓Staff find the answer in the handbook.
- ✓Hard conversations start from a page they signed.
- ✓New hires read the culture before day one.
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