Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Churches (Leader's Guide with Free DVD)

When used withMoney Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, this book plus DVD offers a complete and inexpensive stewardship kit to prepare your congregation for generosity. A congregational stewardship program with three powerful differences.

To view a sample of the DVD click here.

Money Matters:

• Starts With Personal Finances

Personal financial freedom training for your members through the book Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God’s Children.

• Is Year-Round

Instead of a single annual event, Money Matters offers an overall stewardship program that is strategically placed throughout the year.

• Is Easy to Implement

Packed with a complete set of effective components that save time for campaign leaders. Program includes:

• Debt-Free Living
• Focus & Planning
• A Disciplined Lifestyle
• Easy Simplicity
• Surrender & Trust
• Creating vs. Consuming
• Ownership vs. Stewardship
• Generosity
• A guide for group studies on personal financial management
• Sample worship celebrations and sermon outlines
• Video clips to illustrate lessons
• A Money Matters campaign promo video
• Video of stewardship sermons by the author
• Print-ready artwork for supplemental materials

“I have observed how the grip of materialism can strangle a person and an organization. The only cure is understanding and applying God’s principles of stewardship and generosity. Money DOES matter. Learn from Mike, one of the best teachers of our time, how to get in sync with God’s game plan.”—Bob Buford, Founding Chairman, Leadership Network

Chapter 1 Let’s Talk About Money – Jesus Did!

Chapter 2 Speaking to the People’s Felt Need: Freedom

Chapter 3 Implementing a Year-Round Strategic Stewardship Program

Chapter 4 Sample Worship Celebration and Message Outlines

Chapter 5 Using Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, as a group study companion to this book

Appendix: Everything needed (12 documents) to implement your church’s strategic stewardship program

Michael Slaughter is senior pastor of Ginghamsburg, a thriving town and country church where over 4,000 persons worship each week. This congregation (which is influencing many others) is devoted to helping the orphans of civil war in the Sudan by giving 50 percent of their Christmas spending (over $500,000) to the orphaned children of Darfur. Mike challenges all of us to remember: "Christmas is not your birthday! It is Jesus' birthday!" He is author of Spirtual Entrepreneurs, Out on the Edge, Momentum for Life, and Real Followers, all best sellers published by Abingdon Press. He resides in Tipp City, Ohio.

Kim Miller is Creative Director at Ginghamsburg.

"Earn all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.”—John Wesley

Target audience: Leader guide: pastor and chair of budget or chair of stewardship team. The book, Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, makes an excellent small group study to help church members and attendees grapple with daily financial decisions and spending. When personal habits become more disciplined, resources become available for giving.

When used withMoney Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, this book plus DVD offers a complete and inexpensive stewardship kit to prepare your congregation for generosity. A congregational stewardship program with three powerful differences.

To view a sample of the DVD

Money Matters:

• Starts With Personal Finances

Personal financial freedom training for your members through the book Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God’s Children.

• Is Year-Round

Instead of a single annual event, Money Matters offers an overall stewardship program that is strategically placed throughout the year.

• Is Easy to Implement

Packed with a complete set of effective components that save time for campaign leaders. Program includes:

“I have observed how the grip of materialism can strangle a person and an organization. The only cure is understanding and applying God’s principles of stewardship and generosity. Money DOES matter. Learn from Mike, one of the best teachers of our time, how to get in sync with God’s game plan.”—Bob Buford, Founding Chairman, Leadership Network

Chapter 1 Let’s Talk About Money – Jesus Did!

Chapter 2 Speaking to the People’s Felt Need: Freedom

Chapter 3 Implementing a Year-Round Strategic Stewardship Program

Chapter 4 Sample Worship Celebration and Message Outlines

Chapter 5 Using Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, as a group study companion to this book

Appendix: Everything needed (12 documents) to implement your church’s strategic stewardship program

Michael Slaughter is senior pastor of Ginghamsburg, a thriving town and country church where over 4,000 persons worship each week. This congregation (which is influencing many others) is devoted to helping the orphans of civil war in the Sudan by giving 50 percent of their Christmas spending (over $500,000) to the orphaned children of Darfur. Mike challenges all of us to remember: "Christmas is not your birthday! It is Jesus' birthday!" He is author of Spirtual Entrepreneurs, Out on the Edge, Momentum for Life, and Real Followers, all best sellers published by Abingdon Press. He resides in Tipp City, Ohio.

Kim Miller is Creative Director at Ginghamsburg.

"Earn all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.”—John Wesley

Target audience: Leader guide: pastor and chair of budget or chair of stewardship team. The book, Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God's Children, makes an excellent small group study to help church members and attendees grapple with daily financial decisions and spending. When personal habits become more disciplined, resources become available for giving.

Kim Miller serves as Campus Designer at Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, creating and renovating welcoming spaces for worship, events, and community life on Ginghamsburg’s multiple campuses. Kim’s passion for visually, artistically, and theologically connecting people to God has fueled the pioneering of Ginghamsburg’s signature multisensory worship celebrations, and continues at the core of her mission. Also a consultant in the areas of worship and space design, Kim is part of the Willow Creek Arts Champions Group. Her previous books include the Handbook for Multisensory Worship—Vols. I and II and Money Matters: Financial Freedom for All God’s Children (with Mike Slaughter).

Mike Slaughter,lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church, is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg Church and spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations.His life-long passion to reach the lost and set the oppressed free has made him a tireless and leading advocate for the displaced children, womenand men of Darfur, Sudan, named by the U.N. as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Under Mike’s leadership, Ginghamsburg Church has become known as an early innovator of small group ministry, the Church “media reformation” and cyberministry, with the Ginghamsburg website averaging 50,000 visits monthly from around the world. Since initiating The Sudan Project in January 2005, Ginghamsburg has invested over $5 million into humanitarian relief in Darfur. The resultant agricultural project, child development program and safe water initiative are expanding to reach a quarter of a million Sudanese refugees and villagers. As a mentor, Mike travels globally to speak and use his “gift of irritation” to equip ministry leaders to minimize brick and maximize mission so that they may fully deploy the mission of Jesus into the world.Mike is the author of multiple books for church leaders includingChange the World,Spiritual Entrepreneurs,Real Followers,Momentum for Life,UnLearning Church, andUpside Living in a Downside Economy. For more information about Mike, visit MikeSlaughter.com.