Money Matters Leaders Guide With DVD: Financial Freedom for All God's Churches

Miller, Kim; Slaughter, Mike

ISBN 10: 0687495555 / ISBN 13: 9780687495559

Published by Abingdon Press, 2006

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Synopsis:

When used with Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, this book plus DVD offers a complete and inexpensive stewardship kit to prepare your congregation for generosity. A congregational stewardship program with three powerful differences.

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Money Matters:

• Starts With Personal Finances

Personal financial freedom training for your members through the book Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God’s Children.

• Is Year-Round

Instead of a single annual event, Money Matters offers an overall stewardship program that is strategically placed throughout the year.

• Is Easy to Implement

Packed with a complete set of effective components that save time for campaign leaders. Program includes:

 

. Debt-Free Living	. Focus & Planning
. A Disciplined Lifestyle	. Easy Simplicity
. Surrender & Trust	. Creating vs. Consuming
. Ownership vs. Stewardship	. Generosity
. A guide for group studies on personal financial management	. Sample worship celebrations and sermon outlines
. Video clips to illustrate lessons	. A Money Matters campaign promo video
. Video of stewardship sermons by the author
. Print-ready artwork for supplemental materials

 

“I have observed how the grip of materialism can strangle a person and an organization. The only cure is understanding and applying God’s principles of stewardship and generosity. Money DOES matter. Learn from Mike, one of the best teachers of our time, how to get in sync with God’s game plan.”—Bob Buford, Founding Chairman, Leadership Network

 

 

Chapter 1 Let’s Talk About Money – Jesus Did!
Chapter 2 Speaking to the People’s Felt Need: Freedom
Chapter 3 Implementing a Year-Round Strategic Stewardship Program
Chapter 4 Sample Worship Celebration and Message Outlines
Chapter 5 Using Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, as a group study companion to this book
Appendix: Everything needed (12 documents) to implement your church’s strategic stewardship program


Michael Slaughter is senior pastor of Ginghamsburg, a thriving town and country church where over 4,000 persons worship each week. This congregation (which is influencing many others) is devoted to helping the orphans of civil war in the Sudan by giving 50 percent of their Christmas spending (over $500,000) to the orphaned children of Darfur. Mike challenges all of us to remember: "Christmas is not your birthday! It is Jesus' birthday!" He is author of Spirtual Entrepreneurs, Out on the Edge, Momentum for Life, and Real Followers, all best sellers published by Abingdon Press. He resides in Tipp City, Ohio.

 

 

Kim Miller is Creative Director at Ginghamsburg.

"Earn all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.”—John Wesley

Target audience: Leader guide: pastor and chair of budget or chair of stewardship team. The book, Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, makes an excellent small group study to help church members and attendees grapple with daily financial decisions and spending. When personal habits become more disciplined, resources become available for giving.

About the Authors:

Kim Miller serves as Campus Designer at Ginghamsburg Church, in Tipp City Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. Kim creates experiences and environments for worship, events and community life on Ginghamsburg’s multiple campuses. Her passion is connecting people to God on multiple levels--visually, artistically and theologically. This passion has fueled Ginghamsburg’s signature multisensory worship celebrations, and continues to infuse her role as coach on the worship design team.

 

Kim has ignited a movement to recruit, train and deploy teams of strong (unpaid) artist-builders to create engaging environments on a missional, “mud ‘n spit” budget. She has crafted a new model for churches seeking to offer guest experiences that are current and meaningful.  Many of these makeover projects can be viewed at www.redesigningworship.com.

 

Kim shares the Ginghamsburg vision as a frequent speaker, and as blogger/author.

Mike Slaughter is the Pastor Emeritus at Ginghamsburg Church. Under his leadership, Ginghamsburg Church has become known as an early innovator of small group ministry, the Church "media reformation," and cyber-ministry. Mike is the author of multiple books for church leaders, including  Down to Earth, The Passionate Church, Change the World, Dare to Dream, Renegade Gospel, A Different Kind of Christmas, Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Real Followers, Momentum for Life, UnLearning Church, and Upside Living in a Downside Economy.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Money Matters Leaders Guide With DVD: ...
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Like New