Total Money Makeover
After working through Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover and watching some of his videos from Financial Peace University, our class wanted to pass on the benefits of living a debt free life pleasing to God.
As our finances are delegated properly, debt is eliminated. When your savings for emergencies, retirement, children’s education, sound investments and adequate insurance are all in place, you have extra money and a peaceful spirit to help others as God directs!
In a very entertaining and inspirational presentation Dave shows through 13 DVD’s how to deal with everyday choices such as obtaining a car with no payments, to live your life without a mortgage, how to know what you need for insurance, and the true joy of sharing your life with others!
We are offering the Financial Peace University class at Centre Street Church starting Saturday, May 30, from 6:30 to 8:30, and running for 13 weeks. We have used some of our $1000 to purchase a facilitator’s kit, and we have subsidized six single moms so they can take the $125 class at a price each one can afford. By word of mouth, and Financial Peace University posting the class on their website, we have 15 family registrations so we could have 25-30 people attend the class. These are lifetime registrations which means they can do a refresher and take the course again at any time for free. They receive a set of 13 CD’s that match the DVD’s we will be showing, the Financial Peace University Revisited text book and workbook along with a number of other helps. When registering as a family teenage children are welcome to attend with their parents at no extra charge. What an awesome opportunity for young people just starting out in life and we have a number that will be attending!
We still have money left in the account and hopefully God will cause this to grow so we can continue reaching out to single moms and families in financial crisis to help them get out of debt. We would love to see God raise up people that would get together and offer short term small loans at low interest rates to help people that want to change their financial situation. These loans would only become available after completion of the Financial Peace University class and with an accountability system in place. We serve a big God! What a privilege to be in His service and be a part of changing lives for Him!
This project has taken many people to make it happen. A special thanks goes to Terry Bush for all his help in coaching us, and to Karen Weir for her unwavering assistance in helping facilitate the class at Centre Street. Debora Carndoff invited us to
present this class to the Single Mom’s group and helped with the guidelines for financial assistance. Pam Wolfe and her team from Promiseland have opened their doors to small children that need care while the class is running. Another opportunity to reach children that otherwise may never experience God! Doris Degagne is assisting me with the class and ladies from the Total Money Makeover class have offered their help. And of course none of this would have happened the donors had not blessed us with a challenge for ministry. Thank you and God’s richest blessings to you all.
