Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. (1 Corinthians 4:2)

Christiania Church endeavours to apply the principles of the Danish government’s best practice financial management guidelines to minimise the risk of corruption and misuse of funds, while striving to limit bureaucracy. As a consequence, we have instituted the following finance management principles:

1. Different church elders carry out the book-keeping and the payment of bills.
2. At least three church elders have access to view the church’s bank account, although only one of these can make payments.
3. Payments of bills over 10.000 DKK require the written email approval of a church elder in addition to the one who is authorised to pay the church bills.
4. Donations and other financial transfers for which there is no purchase receipt, require the written email approval of a church elder in addition to the one who is authorised to pay the church bills.
5. Cash collections are counted by two elders who have oversight access to the church’s bank account. They sign a document as proof of this collection.

The church’s finances are entered into a standard book-keeping program hosted by Dinero which generates the annual financial statements (profit & loss and balance).

The church pays a small salary to members who carry out the necessary yet tedious financial and administrative tasks that are usually impossible to motivate volunteers to do.

To keep costs down, we have renovated the church building as far as possible through our own freely-given labours.