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| churches that offer financial help: Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, 2015-09-22 When a low-income person asks your church for help, what do you do next? God is extraordinarily generous, and our churches should be, too. Because poverty is complex, however, helping low-income people often requires going beyond meeting their material needs to holistically addressing the roots of their poverty. But on a practical level, how do you move forward in walking with someone who approaches your church for financial help? From the authors of When Helping Hurts comes Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, a guidebook for church staff, deacons, or volunteers who work with low-income people. Short and to the point, this tool provides foundational principles for poverty alleviation and then addresses practical matters, like: How to structure and focus your benevolence work How to respond to immediate needs while pursuing long-term solutions How to mobilize your church to walk with low-income people With practical stories, forms, and tools for churches to use, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is an all-in-one guide for church leaders and laypeople who want to help the poor in ways that lead to lasting change. |
| churches that offer financial help: Toxic Charity Robert D. Lupton, 2011-10-11 Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren’t enough, says veteran urban activist Robert D. Lupton. In this groundbreaking guide, he reveals the disturbing truth about charity: all too much of it has become toxic, devastating to the very people it’s meant to help. In his four decades of urban ministry, Lupton has experienced firsthand how our good intentions can have unintended, dire consequences. Our free food and clothing distribution encourages ever-growing handout lines, diminishing the dignity of the poor while increasing their dependency. We converge on inner-city neighborhoods to plant flowers and pick up trash, battering the pride of residents who have the capacity (and responsibility) to beautify their own environment. We fly off on mission trips to poverty-stricken villages, hearts full of pity and suitcases bulging with giveaways—trips that one Nicaraguan leader describes as effective only in “turning my people into beggars.” In Toxic Charity, Lupton urges individuals, churches, and organizations to step away from these spontaneous, often destructive acts of compassion toward thoughtful paths to community development. He delivers proven strategies for moving from toxic charity to transformative charity. Proposing a powerful “Oath for Compassionate Service” and spotlighting real-life examples of people serving not just with their hearts but with proven strategies and tested tactics, Lupton offers all the tools and inspiration we need to develop healthy, community-driven programs that produce deep, measurable, and lasting change. Everyone who volunteers or donates to charity needs to wrestle with this book. |
| churches that offer financial help: QuickBooks for Churches and Other Religious Organizations Deep River Press, Inc., Lisa London, 2013-11 Bookkeeping for churches can be quite different than for-profit businesses, and the other guides available cover either QuickBooks or church accounting, not both. Lisa London, The Accountant Beside You, walks you through QuickBooks for your church from start to finish, always with examples, terminology, and understanding of what a busy church administrator needs to know in a clear, concise style. With her friendly easy-to-understand style and illustrative screenshots, Lisa guides new QuickBooks users every step of the way, while her tips for how to make QuickBooks work better for churches provides new insight and procedures for even the experienced bookkeeper. Not only does she step you through how to set up QuickBooks and utilize it more efficiently for your house of worship, but she also discusses everything you need to know to implement controls and procedures to ensure that your church's money is always protected. QuickBooks for Churches covers PC versions of QuickBooks from 2012 forward and even includes what's new in the 2014 version. Lisa offers sound accounting procedures for both large and small houses of worship, for bookkeepers with years of experience as well as those just starting out. Let The Accountant Beside You take one more worry off your crowded to-do list. |
| churches that offer financial help: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy, 1912 |
| churches that offer financial help: The Science of the Mind Ernest Holmes, 2007-06-01 First published in 1926, this book is the most important writing from preacher Ernest Shurtleff Holmes. In it, he strives to introduce man to himself, as he truly is. Man is part of the Infinite Spirit, as is all of the visible and invisible in existence. And sharing in the creative power of the Infinite, man becomes able to make thought manifest, as is the case with illness. Holmes explains how the mind controls illness in the body and how changing one's mental state can be healing. In this volume, Holmes gives readers a complete course in Mental Science, so that they may come to understand the power and potential that exists within. Anyone looking for a new way to understand the world and their place in it will find this an empowering read. |
| churches that offer financial help: Financial Institutions and Black Churches United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions, 1995 |
| churches that offer financial help: Rich Church, Poor Church J. Clif Christopher, 2012 What is the bottom line at your church? |
| churches that offer financial help: Planting Healthy Churches for an Unchurched Community: Leaving a Legacy to Build On Nakia Melecio, 2016-11-18 Planting new churches is a dedicated response and reasonable service to fulfilling God's mission. This critical church planting is not only the focus of today's Christians, but it is also the theological and practical subject of numerous Christian studies that tout scripturally based work for shoring up today's church. Nakia Melecio is answering God's call to support local churches, both old and new, and the outcry of God's people in a heartfelt attempt through conferences, workbooks, websites, and many other substantive pathways for spiritual founding and healing. Church planting is necessary, but it is no easy feat. Nakia Melecio's ministry will help struggling churches to reinvent themselves and new churches to plant firmly and deeply on solid rock. Through steadfast diligence and unwavering faith, God's mission can and will be fulfilled. Nakia Melecio shares the vision of how to build a legacy and ultimately claim the victory-methodically, effectively, spiritually, and graciously. |
| churches that offer financial help: Blue Moon Vegetarian Paula Marie Coomer, 2013 Part memoir, part cookbook, and part health-and-nutrition how-to, Blue Moon Vegetarian chronicles Kentucky-born former nurse Paula Marie Coomer as she and her fiance go vegetarian-and ultimately vegan-while also planning their wedding, adopting a pound hound, and remodeling their two-story Victorian. Writing with honesty, humor, and sometimes despair, Coomer tells the story of two people alternately thriving and suffering as they adjust to a new way of eating, living, and loving. With advice from a former public health professional and over fifty original, tried-and-true, plant-based recipes, this thought-provoking book is perfect for anyone concerned about their own health, the health of their loved ones, and the health of our planet. |
| churches that offer financial help: The Coming Revolution in Church Economics Mark DeYmaz, 2019-10-15 Our entire understanding of funding and sustainability must change. Tithes and offerings alone are no longer enough to provide for the needs of the local church, enable pastors to pursue opportunities, or sustain long-term ministry impact. Growing financial burdens on the middle class, marginal increases in contributions to religious organizations, shifting generational attitudes toward giving, and changing demographics are having a negative impact on church budgets. Given that someday local churches may be required to pay taxes on the property they own and/or lose the benefit of soliciting tax-deductible gifts, the time to pivot is now. What's needed is disruptive innovation in church economics. For churches to not only survive but thrive in the future, leaders must learn to leverage assets, bless the community, empower entrepreneurs, and create multiple streams of income to effectively fund mission. You'll learn why you should and how to do so in The Coming Revolution in Church Economics. |
| churches that offer financial help: When Helping Hurts Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, 2014-01-24 With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. |
| churches that offer financial help: Jewish Pride Michael Steinhardt, 2022-10-18 Michael Steinhardt left a stellar career on Wall Street and spent the next three decades launching revolutionary philanthropic programs like Birthright Israel and OneTable that offer a proud, rich future for the next generation of secular American Jews. What are the keys to a proud Jewish life? Part memoir, part manifesto, Michael Steinhardt’s Jewish Pride offers a compelling vision for a rich, rewarding future for Jews in America and around the world. From his middle class beginnings in Brooklyn to a spectacular Wall Street career, Steinhardt understood that apathy and assimilation were threatening the Jewish future in America. Meanwhile established Jewish institutions were failing in the urgent task of strengthening secular Jewish identity. Using his own capital and the wisdom and connections he’d gained in his successful business career, Steinhardt recruited partners, focused on data and results, and even got the Israeli government to help launch the revolutionary Birthright program. By turns provocative, inspiring, revealing, and outright hilarious, Jewish Pride captures its author’s unique personality and outlook and offers honest talk about the Jewish world today, along with a bold prescription for revitalizing Jewish life in the future. |
| churches that offer financial help: Funding Religious Heritage Anne Fornerod, 2016-03-09 This collection brings together a group of highly respected law and religion scholars to explore the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions. The importance of this state support is that on the one hand it illustrates the potential tensions between secular and religious values, whilst on the other it constitutes a relevant tool for investigating the question of the legitimacy of such financial support. The funding logically varies according to the national system of state-religion relationships and this is reflected in the range of countries studied, including: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The book provides clarity in the assignment of funds to religious heritage, as well as seeking to define the limit of what relates to the exercise of worship and what belongs to cultural policy. It is clear that the main challenge for the future lies not only in managing the dual purpose of religious monuments, but also in re-using these buildings which have lost their original purpose. This collection will appeal to those interested in cultural heritage management, as well as law and religion scholars. The views expressed during the execution of the RELIGARE project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. |
| churches that offer financial help: Churches Serving Schools David Lankshear, 2002 This is a handbook for churches who wish to develop better relationships with their local schools and to support all who work in education. It provides useful information on changes in the education system and an insight into what is actually happening in schools today. A range of suggestions for building and developing good relations with local schools is included, along with examples of good practice. 'Churches Serving Schools' also includes photocopiable commissioning services for teachers and headteachers and prayers for schools and those who work in education. |
| churches that offer financial help: Friend Raising Betty Barnett, 2003 Many, after having responded to God's call to missionary service have struggled unsuccessfully to raise and maintain support. Friend Raising is essential reading for anybody involved in missions!Strong, godly relationships are the pillars of lasting support raising. Discover the friendship principles that are uniting thousands of missionaries and senders in their work for God's kingdom.Bearing one another's burdens Mutual love and sharing Generosity Communication Prayer with promises |
| churches that offer financial help: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa Ilana van Wyk, 2014-05-12 This book shows how the UCKG utilizes rituals that are locally meaningful and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. |
| churches that offer financial help: Gospel Doctrine Joseph Fielding Smith, 1971 |
| churches that offer financial help: The Church As Partner in Community Economic Development Theatrice Williams, 1994-05 Presents insights about how churches can become successfully involved in community-based economic development in the Black community. Two case studies examines the role that two institutions have played in improving the social and economic conditions in their neighborhoods, and providing self-reliance through job creation and providing additional tax base. |
| churches that offer financial help: Economic Ethics & the Black Church Wylin D. Wilson, 2017-09-07 This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project examines the economic ethics of black churches in the rural South whose congregants and broader communities have long struggled amidst persistent poverty. Through a case study of communities in Alabama's Black Belt, this book argues that if the economic ethic of the Black Church remains accommodationist, it will continue to become increasingly irrelevant to communities that experience persistent poverty. Despite its historic role in combatting racial oppression and social injustice, the Church has also perpetuated ideologies that uncritically justify unjust social structures. Wilson shows how the Church can shift the conversation and reality of poverty by moving from a legacy of accommodationism and toward a legacy of empowering liberating economic ethics. |
| churches that offer financial help: The Crisis in the Churches Robert Wuthnow, 1997 At a time when already overworked clergy are being called upon by budget cutting politicians to do more for the poor, the sick, and the elderly, American churches are suffering persistent financial shortfalls. Why are American's churches in financial distress? Robert Wuthnow, a leading commentator on religious life in America, asserts that the steady drop in donations, volunteering, and personal involvement is a direct result of a spiritual crisis - a crisis caused in large part by the clergy's failure to address the vital relationships between faith and money, work, stewardship, giving, and economic justice. In The Crisis in the Churches, Wuthnow offers a searching study of this financial crisis and of the spiritual malaise that has silently grown worse during the past decade. To do this, he lets the churches speak for themselves, quoting extensively from interviews with clergy and laity in sixty Protestant and Catholic congregations throughout the U.S., and drawing from the texts of over 200 sermons, from church financial records, and a national survey. What emerges is that parishioners often feel the church does not care about what they do from Monday to Friday, offers no guidance in their most pressing day-to-day concerns, yet always seems to be asking for more money. Although the situation is critical, Wuthnow finds much cause for hope. He points to ideas and programs that some churches have enacted to challenge their members to think differently about work and money and giving. Parishioners sometimes respond positively when clergy speak boldly and concretely about matters of faith and finance, and some churches have formed small groups whose members meet regularly to discussissues of spirituality, work, personal finances, and stewardship. |
| churches that offer financial help: Called to Peace Joy Forrest, 2019-04-30 If you or someone you love is in an abusive relationship, this companion study to Called To Peace: A Survivor's Guide to Finding Peace and Healing After Domestic Abuse is the perfect resource. The workbook is a gospel-based support group curriculum specifically for domestic violence survivors and has been powerful and life changing for many women. |
| churches that offer financial help: How to Start a Single Mother's Ministry in Your Church Dr. Gwenevere Bullard-Swift, 2024-03-22 Consider for a moment that single mothers have become a formidable, sizeable demographic in the US. To neglect to minister to them biblically is to neglect a broad segment of our society, and ministering to single mothers is a way to help reshape and reform society for the better. Single mothers are often locked in poverty and toiling under tremendous stress and responsibility. How to Start a Single Mothers’ Ministry in Your Church examines the steps required to better serve this group in practical, emotional, and spiritual ways. About the Author Dr. Gwenevere Bullard-Swift is a licensed ordain pastor in the Christian Methodist Episcopal church. She is a 2019 graduate of South University with a Doctor of Ministry Degree. She received a Master of Divinity from the Interdenominational Theology Center in Atlanta, Georgia (Phillips School of Theology). She has been pastoring for more than forty years. Bullard-Swift’s special interests are spending time with her husband, reading, writing books, attending bible study, and watching TV. She has been married to a devoted and loving husband for nineteen years. He is supportive and always encouraging her to go further. Bullard-Swift has one son, Johnny. |
| churches that offer financial help: Financial Help in Social Work Jean S. Heywood, Barbara K. Allen, 1971 |
| churches that offer financial help: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church Roland Allen, 2006-08-24 If it were once believed that the freedom of churches should be restricted to bring greater control to missions, Roland Allen sets out to overturn this conception. Warning against the danger of imposing greater limits on churches, the Author advocates that all members of the church, 'natives' and foreigners alike, must take an active role in its establishment and daily life. The study divides itself into nine chapters; the first, introducing Allen's standpoint, the second as an opening into thenature and character of Spontaneous Expression. The third chapter deals with modern attempts by 'natives' towards the liberty of their churches. The fear of the doctrine becoming weakened by natives taking it into their own hands is addressed by chapter four and this fear is widened into the realm of the Christian standard of morals in chapter five. Civilisation and enlightenment form the central themes of the sixth chapter. Chapters seven and eight tackle the distinction between the Church andmissionary societies. It is in the final chapter that the future of Spontaneous Expansion is investigated and Allen puts forward his ideas which, as he rightly predicted, were broadly accepted fifty years and longer still after their original publication. |
| churches that offer financial help: HUD Rebuilding and Loan Guaranty Program United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief, 1998 |
| churches that offer financial help: Starting a New Church Ralph Moore, 2002-09-06 According to the author perhaps our greatest responsibility is to evangelize our own generation. Yet established churches are not able to do that. In fact, rising generations of Americans live in ignorance of Jesus Christ and have no moral absolutes. Aggressive church planting, the author believes, is the answer to the problem, because new churches focus on the needs of each new generation and present biblical truth in the cultural context that best reaches those people. The objectives of this book are to lay down the challenge to consider becoming a church planter while at the same time screen out wishful thinking and focus on the practical challenges of church planting. This authoritative and edgy message is the next thing in evangelism. |
| churches that offer financial help: Launch Nelson Searcy, Kerrick Thomas, Jennifer Dykes Henson, 2017-02-28 Starting a church from scratch? Start here! Launch offers specific strategies for beginning a church with no members, no money, and no staff. Readers get clear, practical how-to strategies for quickly raising funds, creating a team, planning services, effective evangelism, and rapidly developing a growing membership. Specific advice is included for reaching that often difficult-to-target demographic, the 20- to 40-year-old. Now thoroughly revised and expanded to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of church planting. |
| churches that offer financial help: Churches and Education Morwenna Ludlow, Charlotte Methuen, Andrew Spicer, 2019-07-04 Brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the history of churches and education. |
| churches that offer financial help: Planting Reproducing Churches Elmer Towns, 2018-01-16 The church was meant to multiply! For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them (Matt. 18:20). Are you interested in planting a church that has exponential impact? If so, you will be partnering with God to build something that is alive, vital, and majestic. There is a parallel between planting a church and planting a seed in the ground. In Planting Reproducing Churches, Dr. Elmer Towns explains Gods strategy of multiplication as it pertains to planting local church communities. By understanding that every living organism can reproduce a multitude of itself from just one seed, you will see how one church can reproduce itself into an established denomination, large network, or thriving multi-site campus, all carrying the unique DNA of that local body. Read this book and learn the answers to practical questions such as: Who can plant a church? Should you start a church in your hometown? What type of authority should be followed in a church plant? Why is the vision statement essential? How do you choose a name for the church? How do you raise funds for a church plant? Get ready to receive strategies on how to plant life-giving, flourishing, reproducing churches that have the potential to complete the Great Commission in our lifetime! |
| churches that offer financial help: The National Humane Review , 1919 |
| churches that offer financial help: Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record , 1919 |
| churches that offer financial help: Viral Churches Ed Stetzer, Warren Bird, 2010-03-10 This groundbreaking guide reveals successful strategies for multiplying the impact of new church congregations. Based on a national, cross-denominational study commissioned by Leadership Network, Viral Churches explores the best practices in church multiplication movements, as well as the common threads among them. A hands-on resource, Viral Churches offers the fresh vision and critical perspectives essential as a catalyst for today's church planting leaders. Authors Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird draw from their own experiences as well as the insights of numerous church planting leaders. Filled with illustrative success stories, this important book reveals how to plant churches that multiply into a movement. Each chapter highlights a different point on such issues as keeping the focus on evangelism; recruiting, assessing, and deploying planters; increasing the survivability of new churches; using a multisite strategy effectively; funding; overcoming obstacles; facing challenges ahead; and many more. |
| churches that offer financial help: Ministry of Helps Buddy Bell, 2019-03-12 The Ministry of Helps Handbook by Buddy Bell is a unique combination of teaching, seminar guidelines and answers to often-asked questions. This useful and complete book provides pastors, and members with the tools and insights to restore the ministry of helps to their church. |
| churches that offer financial help: Shaping the Stranger Churches Silke Muylaert, 2020-10-20 Silke Muylaert explores the struggles of the Netherlandish migrant churches in England in engaging with the Reformation and the Revolt in their fatherland. |
| churches that offer financial help: The Church at Home and Abroad Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson, 1895 |
| churches that offer financial help: American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer , 1899 Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union. |
| churches that offer financial help: Annual Report American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1899 |
| churches that offer financial help: Baptist Missionary Magazine , 1901 |
| churches that offer financial help: The Baptist Missionary Magazine , 1901 |
| churches that offer financial help: The Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Germany United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch, 1944 |
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