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Saving Grace Financial Well-Being Training

The next Saving Grace training is planned for February 4, February 11, February 18, February 25, March 4, and March 11, 2026 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Click here to register.

United Methodists of Upper New York will be offering Saving Grace: A Guide to Financial Well-Being created by Wespath through Abingdon Press. Unlike many other financial planning guides, Saving Grace is rooted in Biblical teachings and a Wesleyan perspective, offering a six-session small group curriculum via Zoom that addresses saving, earning, giving, spending, and debt. The training aims to ground participants in a Biblical understanding of money while helping them develop personal financial goals and create a Biblically-based Spending Plan tailored to their households, fostering sustainable financial well-being by:

• Contrasting what our consumer culture says about money with what the Bible says about money
• Showing you how to track your expenses and evaluating your income
• Discussing giving and saving
• Addressing debt
• Walking you through creating a personal Spending Plan that will guide you in every aspect of your financial lives.
• Encouraging you in ways to experience peace, joy and freedom in your financial lives.

Topics to be presented:

Each session will explore a different aspect of our financial lives, identifying the pull of our consumer culture in that area and exploring how the faithful way toward financial well-being can guide our decisions. The sessions we will cover will be:

• Session 1:   All Manner of Good
• Session 2:   Getting Started: tracking expense and income
• Session 3:   Giving and Saving
• Session 4:   Understanding and eliminating debt
• Session 5:   Spending
• Session 6:   Adjusting Spending Plans

Presenter:

This training is being offered by the Upper New York Conference and the Clergy Wellness Team with the Rev. Susan Ranous facilitating. She is an ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church, a Certified Public Accountant, who specializes in clergy tax, church finance and stewardship.

Cost:

The cost of the training is provided at no cost to clergy as a Thrive resource through Missional Excellence. Participants will need to purchase a copy of the "Saving Grace - A Guide to Financial Well-being" A Clergy Workbook through Amazon or Cokesbury.

The sessions is two hours long.