If you are looking for stewardship teaching resources for your church, you may want to check out the following….

Financial Peace University

Financial Peace University

Dave Ramsay.com

We all need a plan for our money. Dave’s class will show
you how to get rid of debt, manage your money, spend
and save wisely, and much more!

We all need a plan for our money. Financial Peace University (FPU) is that plan! It teaches God’s ways of handling money. Through video teaching, class discussions and interactive small group activities, FPU presents biblical, practical steps to get from where you are to where you’ve dreamed you could be. This plan will show you how to get rid of debt, manage your money, spend and save wisely, and much more!

FPU classes meet for around an hour and a half each week for nine weeks.
See the full nine-week lesson plan.

Register for On-line course at: http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu?ictid=lm1.chu.fpu.home

(NOTE: This is very ‘american’ in both presentation and budget forms – but works well with A-Type Driven personalities and those motivated to act on eliminated debt)

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Freed-Up Financial Living

GoodSenseMovement.org

A FRESH NEW APPROACH TO BIBLICAL STEWARDSHIP TEACHING AND TRAINING:

FREED-UP FINANCIAL LIVING

The Bible is a world-class economic textbook with over 2,300 verses about our attitude and relationship to money. Clearly, our relationship to money impacts and is impacted by our relationship to God.

Enter Freed-Up Financial Living! This financial stewardship resource integrates Biblical financial principles with practical application, catalyzing spiritual transformation in participants. Grace-filled and easy to understand, Freed-Up Financial Living can make a difference in your church or organization – at a very affordable price!

What results can you expect from Freed-Up Financial Living?

  • Participants will grow spiritually as they contrast what the Bible says about earning, giving, saving, debt and spending with the messages of contemporary culture. They will learn how to apply biblical truth to their financial lives.
  • Participants will leave with a financial action plan in their hands, the knowledge to implement it in their heads, and the motivation to follow through in their hearts. They will learn how to track expenses and set up a balanced, individualized Spending Plan that includes Biblical practices around giving and saving. They will develop a plan to get out and stay out of consumer debt.

Who can benefit from Freed-Up Financial Living?

  • Everyone can benefit, regardless of their financial situation. Freed-Up Financial Living helps those with financial difficulty find hope and help and challenges those in good financial shape to examine their hearts about how they are honoring God with the resources they have.
  • Because of its flexible plan, Freed-Up Financial Living can be used with different audiences in a variety of ways. The six 1-hour DVD-driven sessions can be used with large or small groups, as well as individuals and couples. The workshop can benefit various ministry areas including marriage preparation, benevolence, discipleship and, of course, stewardship.

We’ll send more about this revised and updated resource in a few days. In the meantime, if you have questions or would like to talk with someone associated with the Good $ense Movement, visit our Contact page or call us at (844) Freed-Up.

The Good $ense Movement Team
Transforming Finances! Transforming Lives!
www.goodsensemovement.org

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COMPASS
navigating faith and finances

https://www.stewardshipresources.org/COMPASS

COMPASS is designed to engage young adults in conversations about faith and finance.

COMPASS is composed of three elements:

Relevant Resources that are relational, informational, and practical. Below, you will find a growing list of resources to help you map a path to faithful finances.

A Facebook Community that offers a space to ask questions and start conversations. Have a particular concern related to faith and finances? Have tips about what worked for you? Join the community and join the conversation!

A Blog that delves more deeply into the questions of faith and finances while also offering tips on how to use the resources below. With posts written by young adults and leaders in the field of stewardship, this is a place to gain new and deeper insights into the often chaotic world of faith and finances.

We want to hear from you! Have a comment or question? What resources have been most helpful? What other resources would you like to see? How does your faith inform your financial decisions? Join the conversation on the COMPASS Facebook page.

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Share Save Spend : Money and Meaning

sharesavespend.com

Healthy Money Habits for a Lifetime…

Money Sanity Solutions: Linking Money + Meaning is designed to get families talking about money by leveraging everyday life experiences. The goal: help everyone in the family develop healthy money habits that are liked to their values. Topics include: budgeting basics, spending with a conscience, learning to earn, savings revolution, gift giving/receiving, etc.

  • SHARE – it’s not just about your money – its about how sharing impacts your family, your community and the world
  • SAVE –  for a raining day, for retirement, or for something more. How would your life change with a more comfortable cushion?
  • SPEND – money makes the world go round, but how and where you spend your money is a powerful statement

Nathan introduces all 15 chapters with lively and engaging DVD video segments that provide insights, stories and wisdom from his 20-plus years of working with families and organizations. Each chapter includes thought-provoking conversation starters, relevant case studies, as well as, activities and exercises (20 downloadable PDFs).Click here for the table of contents and a sample excerptShare Save Spend Website:  http://sharesavespend.com
Video: Money Sanity Solutions: Share Save Spend

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Navigating Your Finances God’s Way
by Howard Dayton

compassapps.org

 

This nine week small group study teaches individuals God’s perspective of managing money and possessions. It will provide the practical applications of handling finances, and really gets to the heart of the matter.

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Set Your House in Order

by Howard Dayton

compassapps.org

The five-week Set Your House in Order small group study is designed to enable you to assemble and organize your important financial information in just one place. Set Your House in Order is also an outstanding tool to help you plan your estate and manage your current finances. A small group is the most effective setting for applying what you’ll learn in this study. The small group format is flexible and can be taught in a variety of ways. Some examples include; meeting every other week for class to give time to complete practical applications or having five consecutive weeks and meeting a month later to ensure all practical applications are complete. The study may also be conducted in a classroom, seminar or completed by an individual.

Topics Include:

  • Building a Foundation
  • Taking Inventory
  • Providing for Your Loved Ones
  • Leaving a Legacy
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Money & Marriage God’s Way

by Howard Dayton

compassapps.org

Financial stress can devastate a marriage. But there is a better way — God’s way! This six week small group study will show you how to discover God’s approach to managing your finances and strengthening your marital relationship.

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Business God’s Way

by Howard Dayton

compassapps.org

The six-week Business God’s Way small group study will improve your business and your finances because you will be learning what God says about operating a business and handling money. Business God’s Way is for everyone in business—the CEO or manager of a department, small business or large, prosperous or struggling, whether the business is a start up or well established.

Throughout the study you will be learning what God says about business and handling money while building a business plan based on Biblical principles.

Topic of this study include:

  • Starting Well
  • Values
  • Strategy
  • People
  • Finances
  • Finishing Well
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Give, Save & Spend – Collegiate

compassapps.org

This six week small group study, designed for college age students, teaches individuals God’s perspective of managing money and possessions. It will provide the practical applications of handling finances, and really gets to the heart of the matter. This is a great study for churches, campus ministries or can even be used a s a self-study. It is available only on the Compass App for $14.99.

Topics Include:

  • God’s Part & Our Part
  • Work & Debt
  • Generosity
  • Investing & Counsel
  • Crisis & Eternity
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Stewardship Ministries

StewardshipMinistries.org

The concept of stewardship (God’s ownership) is one of the most exciting and life-transforming concepts in the entire Bible, yet it is very poorly taught in churches and even more poorly understood among believers.

StewardshipMinistries.org contains resources for both churches and individuals including –

  • Articles  & Videos on Stewardship
  • The Stewardship Minute – A new way to share the message of stewardship with your congregation in one minute sound bites…
  • The Steward’s Way –  is a comprehensive, integrated, three-year discipleship initiative developed by a host of stewardship-based ministries committed to equipping and resourcing your church over a period of years to grow an army of mature, committed and obedient disciples.

Stewardship Ministries is committed to helping believers understand and apply this compelling truth, transforming every area of their lives – home, careers and church. Experience the transformation!

Free 30 and 40 Day Preview

30 & 40 Day Generosity Devotionals

briankluth.org

30 & 40 DAY GENEROUS LIFE Church-Wide Campaigns

with Videos, Small Group Resources, Sermon Helps, Banners/Posters, and More

USED BY OVER 3000 CHURCHES

As low as under $3 per family!

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More Than Enough

morethanenough.ca/

Hope for Today, Freedom for Tomorrow!

Our mission is to empower you to effectively manage financial resources through teaching, coaching, planning and accountability thus maximizing the purpose for which you were created.

Once you know where you are going, your financial fitness coach will walk along side you, step by step, providing encouragement, planning, strategies, guidance and course correction as needed.Together you will establish a framework for financial fitness, for LIFE!

“The one fundamental revelation, right at the onset of the journey, was that we needed to stop tracking our spending “after the fact” and instead, direct our money to where we wanted it to be spent.   In other words, saving and spending were to become intentional actions instead of reactionary or impulsive…. It is here that I must testify that transformational results have been exponential and thus impossible to record.

What I can say is that after 2-1/2 years of intentional saving and spending, I have come to enjoy the realm of finances.”   –   Jack & Cristina, Ontario

Fee Based Services Include:

  • Coaching
  • Equpping
  • Mortgages
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Freedom Initiative

advisorswithpurpose.ca/the-freedom-initiative.aspx

VIDEO:  The Freedom Initiative from ADVISORS with Purpose on Vimeo.

The Freedom Initiative is a ministry of ADVISORS with Purpose, that is developing and supporting a national network of local churches and community organizations empowered and trained to see people and families in their communities set free from the burden of debt.

By joining the Freedom Initiative, a local church body or organization will be assisted to set up a Debt Freedom centre  to provide free face to face debt advice to anyone in their community in need.

Debt Freedom Centres will be operated by local Christian communities and are flexible in their approach and service, reflecting the communities they serve, small or large, providing practical help and ongoing support towards debt free living.

If you are passionate about the church being the church and doing the work of the church, contact us for information on how you can support this vision and donate to the ministry.

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Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Canada

capcanada.org

Serving the Poor, Saving The Lost
Through the Church, Across the Nation

Christians Against Poverty (CAP), which is helping thousands of people out of personal debt in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, recently launched in Canada. CAP opened their Canadian office in March 2013 in response to numerous Canadian church leaders who have seen the need for debt counselling in their cities. Since launching, we have partnered with over 90 churches to bring our financial education and debt counselling to local communities.

‘Christians Against Poverty does a brilliant job of coming alongside us as a church to help both people in our church and people in our community develop workable budgets and address long accumulated debt. This is a ministry that knows how to help in this most important area. They do so with humility and skill. I recommend them to any church that wants to address some of the real pressures of living in the 21st Century.’
Warwick Cooper, The Peoples Church, Toronto

Need help with your debt?
Call Toll Free at 1-855-214-9191

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Advisors with Purpose  (AWP)

Advisorswithpurpose.ca

ADVISORS with Purpose is the ministry arm of the Canadian National Christian Foundation. We exist to help Christians, minsitry organizations, churches and charities understand and practice biblical stewardship.

Financial Professionals

  • We serve Christian financial professionals through our membershipbased discipleship ministry.
  • If you are a Christian financial professional interested in membership, click here for more information.

Charity and Ministry Organizations

  • We serve Christian charities by offering them help with development and implementation of a Planned Giving Program for donors.
  • If you are a Christian charity and want to learn more about this program, contact us for further information.

Churches and Community Groups

  • We serve churches and ministry groups by offering a turn-key program called the Freedom Initiative offering free and confidential  face to face debt advice to individuals and families across Canada.

To learn more about The Freedom Initiative, click here.