Leland's Seven Stewardship Principles — Church Stewardship Program

A partnership with Leland Rubin, creator of the Seven Stewardship Principles, and Allan Bell - CPA, CMA, MBA, Nsites founder and creator

Leland's Seven Stewardship Principles — Church Stewardship Program

Sample Community Church — application home

Financial clarity. Generous people. Healthier churches. Viewing as Pastor / executive leader. Choose an application to enter, or review the cross-application summary below.

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About Home

Home is the executive command center. It gathers the current picture from all four elements — Seven Principles Academy progress, church financial health from Stewardship Nsites, congregation engagement from Stewardship Nsites Connect, and consented aggregate wellness from Personal Nsites — plus operational readiness and open coaching work, with one-click entry into each area.

Its part in the whole: The daily starting point that shows which of the seven stewardship principles, which systems and which engagement measures need attention right now.

It becomes useful once Onboarding has set roles, consent and the church profile. Back to Onboarding

For the side-by-side view of assessment, evidence and follow-through over time, go to the Dashboard. Continue to Dashboard

Demo mode — synthetic pilot data for Sample Community Church. No production, member or financial records are connected.

Enter an application

Seven Principles Academy

Enter application

The Seven Stewardship Principles methodology of Leland Rubin: seven principles with lessons, exercises, evidence, scoring, coaching, assigned digital assessments and print-ready workbooks.

  • Seven principles, four lessons each
  • Assign participants and compile church scores
  • Workbook publishing and printing
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Stewardship Nsites

Enter application

Church financial intelligence: ingestion, giving detail, funds, statements, comparative financials, executive reporting and operational readiness.

  • Financial dashboard & budget vs actuals
  • Member / giver detail and statements
  • Upload, source documents, readiness

Stewardship Nsites Connect

Enter application

Congregation engagement: campaigns and QR experiences, visitor check-in, member journey, ministries, events, community, prayer and analytics.

  • Visitors, follow-up and care
  • Ministries, events and community
  • Engagement games and analytics

Personal Nsites

Enter application

A private financial wellness application for participants: assessment, plan, learning library, budget, credit, insurance, investing education and coaching.

  • Private by default
  • Readiness score and personal plan
  • Learning, quizzes and badges

How the program works — one continuous loop

Read the full cycle

Ask the church where it thinks it stands, then prove it with evidence from the applications, name the gap between the two, work the gap with owned actions and coaching, and measure again. Every element of Nsites exists to serve one of these five stages.

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1. Assess perception — Where do we think we are?

2. Gather evidence — Where are we actually?

3. Name the gap — Perception versus evidence.

4. Teach and act — Close the gap on purpose.

5. Re-measure — Did it actually work?

  1. Stage 1

    Assess perception

    Where do we think we are?

    Leadership, staff and members complete the Seven Principles survey.

    Go there

  2. Stage 2

    Gather evidence

    Where are we actually?

    Financials from Stewardship Nsites, people metrics from Stewardship Nsites Connect, household themes from Personal Nsites.

    Go there

  3. Stage 3

    Name the gap

    Perception versus evidence.

    Compare Seven Principles survey input against Stewardship Nsites, Connect and Personal Nsites evidence.

    Go there

  4. Stage 4

    Teach and act

    Close the gap on purpose.

    Facilitated Seven Principles lessons teach the principles behind each gap; actions are assigned with owners and due dates.

    Go there

  5. Stage 5

    Re-measure

    Did it actually work?

    Re-issue the Seven Principles survey semi-annually or annually and track the same evidence streams.

    Go there

Platform discovery and onboarding

These discovery and onboarding capabilities assess leadership visibility, position the offer and bring a church on board. They are native parts of the Leland's Seven Stewardship Principles — Church Stewardship Program, brought together through a partnership between Leland Rubin, creator of the Seven Stewardship Principles, and Allan Bell - CPA, CMA, MBA, Nsites founder and creator. Platform Overview lives on its own tab.

Church Transformational Dashboard

Compare the Seven Principles assessment, operational evidence from Stewardship Nsites and Stewardship Nsites Connect, and 90-day action-plan execution — kept as three separate measures.

Open the dashboard

What Don't You Know? Survey

An interactive 18-question Leadership Visibility Assessment that names your blind spots and the modules that close them.

Take the survey

Strategic Positioning

An executive briefing for pastors, boards and multi-church leaders, with presentation mode and printing.

Review the briefing

Onboarding & Optional NDA

Guided setup: profile, leadership, roles, data readiness, consent, baselines — with an optional mutual NDA step.

Start onboarding
72of 100

Church Health Score

Needs attention
76of 100

Stewardship Nsites

Needs attention
68of 100

Nsites Connect

Needs attention
48of 100

Seven Stewardship Principles progress

At risk

Operating runway

Needs attention

4.1 months

Target 6 months

YTD contributions

Healthy

$3M

$3M budgeted

+2.6% to budget

Weekly attendance

Healthy

1,180

34 first-time guests

+2.1% vs 4-week average

48-hour follow-up

At risk

61%

23 open follow-ups

Operational readiness

At risk

46 of 100

Bronze tier · inside Stewardship Nsites

Seven Stewardship Principles lessons complete

Needs attention

11 of 28

Sample Community Church Leadership Cohort 1

AI executive briefing

Draft narrative across all contained applications. Every observation links to its source and requires human approval before distribution.

Draft — requires human approval before distribution

Financially stable, relationally warm, operationally inconsistent.

Sample Community Church is operating close to plan with a 2.6% favorable budget variance and a change in net assets of $160,400. Giving is healthy in total, but concentration in the top ten households reached 24% and 138 households have lapsed in the trailing twelve months without documented follow-up.

Engagement is steady at 1,180 weekly attenders, yet only 61% of first-time guests received follow-up within 48 hours, and 13 guests from last Sunday have no assigned owner. The connection pathway converts well once a guest reaches a Chill and Chat event, which makes early follow-up the highest-leverage fix.

Leland's Seven Stewardship Principles progress stands at 54 of 100 overall, with S1 Build Financial Literacy strongest at 70 and S7 Give Generously lowest at 40. The recommended next actions are the reserve policy, first-time-guest owner assignment, and completion of S5 Invest in Future Ministry Lesson 3 before the November board meeting.

What needs attention

Top risks ranked by severity, drawn from every application.

  • Reactivate 138 lapsed contributor households

    High

    S4 Cultivate Generosity Through Giving · owner Stewardship Lead · due 2026-10-31

    Open action

  • Reduce operating runway risk to the 6-month reserve target

    Critical

    S2 Build a Financial Reserve · owner Finance Director · due 2026-11-15

    Open action

  • Assign a follow-up owner to every first-time guest

    High

    Operational — Guest Follow-up · owner Connections Director · due 2026-10-12

    Open action

  • Close the offering-count segregation of duties gap

    High

    S1 Build Financial Literacy · owner Church Administrator · due 2026-10-10

    Open action

  • Publish the future ministry investment filter

    High

    S5 Invest in Future Ministry · owner Executive Pastor · due 2026-10-15

    Open action

What changed

Trailing three months, Stewardship Nsites demo ledger.

MonthContributionsExpensesNet
Jul$216K$230K-$14K
Aug$235K$226K$9K
Sep$239K$226K$13K

Operational readiness gaps

Top three gaps from the readiness assessment inside Stewardship Nsites.

Open assessment
  • Internal Financial ControlsAccounting & Financial ReportingCritical
  • Data Backup & RecoveryInformation TechnologyCritical
  • Cash Flow ManagementAccounting & Financial ReportingCritical

Upcoming milestones

  • Coaching session — 2026-09-24 · Build a Financial Reserve, Lesson 3 — Setting the Three-to-Six-Month Target and Funding It
  • Reserve policy to board — Nov 15
  • Accessibility audit, both campuses — Nov 30

Program leadership

A partnership between Leland Rubin, creator of the Seven Stewardship Principles, and Allan Bell - CPA, CMA, MBA, Nsites founder and creator.

Leland Rubin, creator of the Seven Stewardship Principles

Leland Rubin

Program coach and author of the Seven Stewardship Principles church-health methodology. The Seven Principles journey moves from Financial Literacy through Building a Financial Reserve, Eliminating High-Cost Liabilities, Cultivating Generosity Through Giving, Investing in Future Ministry and Providing for Your Pastors' Wellbeing, to Giving Generously in missions and community outreach.

Enter the Seven Principles Academy