Whether you are a church planter or a well-established church, your leadership team will need some way to pay for its ministry expenses. Most churches will have some sort of credit or debit card, or they will choose to reimburse leaders for expenses. Whatever means by which money goes out, it is crucial that every organization account for how that money is spent. Early on, as a church planter with very few expenses, I managed this by simply making notes on incoming credit card statements.