 From SHARE-SAVE-SPEND: “Having a balanced and values-centered approach to financial matters means aligning what you care about with how you use your money. While this sounds simple enough, it becomes seriously complicated by the compounding pressure on young people to spend, spend, spend, and to reach for an upscale lifestyle.” www.sharesavespend.com was created to help people of all ages develop and maintain healthy financial habits, and to offer advice on creating financial values based on the Share-Save-Spend™ approach to money.
Good $ense - A Curriculum for Year Round Stewardship
Good Sense Ministries - Willow Creek Association - Dick Towner
This kit contains an Implementation Guide which provides a detailed step-by-step roadmap for putting into place a year-round stewardship ministry. In addition to the detailed implementation steps, the guide contains an appendix of over 100 pages of practical tools on how to "make it happen" in your church.
The Implementation Guide is organized into four distinct phases: Commitment - Obtain ministry support from senior leadership, commission a Ministry Champion, form and educate a core Good Sense team, cast a ministry vision, prepare a ministry proposal and secure final commitment from leadership; Development - Recruit and train volunteers, set up a ministry office and begin counseling team meetings. Launch - Cast the Good Sense Ministry vision to the congregation, promote and teach the Good Sense Budget Course, offer counseling services, evaluate the Budget and Counseling Courses and implement improvements; Expansion - Select and train additional financial counselors, increase the number and variety of Good Sense courses and seek to partner with other ministries regarding stewardship.
Available from Good Sense Ministries.
Three Simple Rules Guaranteed to Improve Your Finances! Spend less than you earn; Save now, buy later; Know debt. Theo A. Boers is a financial entrepreneur and a businessman who set up a Financial Counseling Ministry at his church in the early nineties. After counseling hundreds of families and training many counselors he decided to summarize what he had learned in Three Simple Rules… He wrote it especially for young people and young couples, in the hope that by reading it they would avoid financial difficulties. The book may be downloaded (or ordered) from the author’s web site. Be sure to visit the “Helpful Links” section of the site!
Crown Financial Ministries offers a ministry aimed at providing a Christian perspective on debt management, budgeting guides and help with personal finances. Crown’s mission is to equip “people worldwide to learn, apply, and teach God’s financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission.” This comprehensive site offers many useful tools and resources. A landmark exploration of the roots of economic prosperity and the path out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens.
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Compiled by Bruce Rockwell and Tom Gossen
This extensive bibliography has been developed over several years and is offered for your use. We welcome your suggestions on items that you think should be added to future editions of this resource.
Click on the titles below to go to the individual sections of this bibliography.
1. “How To” Resources For The Congregation
2. Booklet Resources for Every Member of the Parish
3. Stewardship Curricula
4. Theology and Practice of Stewardship
5. Faithful Management of Personal Finances
6. Will Our Children Be Stewards? Books to Read With Children
7. Videos
8. Other Useful Resources
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