{"id":8492,"date":"2019-04-08T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:37:15","slug":"ecfa-acrreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2019\/04\/08\/ecfa-acrreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"BLB Receives ECFA Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8493 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ECFA_600x300_01-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ECFA_600x300_01-.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/ECFA_600x300_01--300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Blue Letter Bible Receives ECFA Accreditation!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On March 8, Blue Letter Bible received its accreditation from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecfa.org\/Content\/Blue-Letter-Bible-Becomes-an-ECFA-Accredited-Organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECFA<\/a>\u00a0(Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). This is a major milestone for BLB in seeking to follow a model of\u00a0<strong>biblical accountability<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>stewardship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Busby, president of ECFA, shared, \u201cWe are pleased to accredit a ministry committed to equip people with powerful tools to read, study, and rightly divide the written Word of God, the Holy Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nECFA, founded in 1979, provides accreditation to leading Christian nonprofit organizations that faithfully demonstrate compliance with the ECFA Standards pertaining to financial accountability, fundraising and board governance.<\/p>\n<p>ECFA-accredited ministries are accepted based upon seven\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecfa.org\/Standards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Standards<\/a>\u00a0including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doctrinal Issues<\/li>\n<li>Governance<\/li>\n<li>Financial Oversight<\/li>\n<li>Use of Resources and Compliance with Laws<\/li>\n<li>Transparency<\/li>\n<li>Compensation-Setting and Related-Party Transactions<\/li>\n<li>Stewardship of Charitable Gifts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about ECFA, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecfa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECFA.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view important information for our donors, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/blb.org\/donorinfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information for Donors<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Letter Bible Receives ECFA Accreditation! On March 8, Blue Letter Bible received its accreditation from\u00a0ECFA\u00a0(Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). This is a major milestone for BLB in seeking to follow a model of\u00a0biblical accountability\u00a0and\u00a0stewardship. Dan Busby, president of ECFA, shared, \u201cWe are pleased to accredit a ministry committed to equip people with powerful tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}