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Saving Grace Financial Well-Being Training
Click here to register for the next Saving Grace session beginning on January 22, 2025.
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
Mark these Wednesday evening dates on your calendar and register now for the next session:
- January 22
- January 29
- February 5
- February 12
- February 19
- February 26
Presenter:
This training is being offered by the United Methodists of Upper New York and the Clergy Wellness Team with 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 will be two hours long. Click here to register.