With the increased number of church consolidations throughout the country, combined with some high-profile defalcations and poor budget management decisions, many clergy members and their lay associates are unprepared for the management and accounting issues facing them, now and into the future. This paper synthesizes the many issues facing church workers acting as managers of significant and complex enterprises, and proposes higher education changes and curriculum enhancements that will help ameliorate the complexities of church management. The end result, a strong educational program for lay and cleric managers of church properties and assets designed and implemented as an undergraduate program in church management. A rubric will be provided outlining the course requirements for an effective and efficient church management program, including specific learning objectives that must be achieved to properly educate church workers for the changing role of church management in the 21st century.