Money and Stewardship

Ever consider how your financial habits affect your involvement in missions? For instance, most missions agencies are unable to send students living with the heavy burden of school loans or credit card debt. We've gathered the following resources to help you make tithing, giving, saving, and simple and debt-free living a part of your missions strategy.

Introduction

Feature Articles:
  Developing a World Christian Lifestyle
   by Christie Borthwick at Urbana 2000
  Money Management, Debt, Tithing
   by David S. Topazian, D.D.S., M.B.A.

Handling Debt, Avoiding Debt & Living Within Your Means
Our money can too easily become our master when we mishandle such tools as student loans and credit cards.

Lifestyle & Financial Stewardship
Discover what John Wesley, World War II and Theology have to do with stewardship.

Money Tutorial
These self-guided worsheets and Scripture studies will help you assess and improve your financial stewardship.

Creative Solutions for Money and Missions
Tuition-free graduate programs, strategic student loan repayments, and other creative approaches.

Giving & Poverty
"How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods, and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?" (I John 3:17-18)

Consumerism, Sweatshops, & Fair Trade
How you choose to spend your dollar (yen, pound, peso) affects others in myriad ways.

Bibliography and Websites
Further resources for exploration and study.

Acknowledgments
A special thanks to those who lent creative criticism and resources to develop Money & Stewardship:

• Dr. David S. Topazian, DDS, MBA, of Project MedSend and author of God's Prescription For Your Finances.
• Gordon Wadsworth, author of Cost Effective College and President of Plus marketing, Inc. Advertising Agency, which helps families with budgeting and credit reduction strategies.

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