{"product_id":"9781566995221","title":"Financial Meltdown in the Mainline?","description":"Intentionally provocative, Alban founder and former president Loren Mead's dynamic work sets out dramatic and compelling challenges for today's churches. Mead chose the word \"meltdown\"-a strong term, indeed-very carefully and consciously. His clarion call urges congregations to direct attention to their dwindling financial resources and their unreliable fiscal practices, and to take major action now-or face disaster in the future. Mead addresses changing church giving patterns; the inconsistent ways congregations keep financial records; the lack of coordinated short- and long-range planning; the need for knowledge of sound financial techniques such as accounting for inflation; an over-reliance on \"restructuring\" to fix problems; and lack of defensive planning for operational costs.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111665549552,"sku":"9781566995221","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566995221_p0.jpg?v=1769899986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566995221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}