Southridge's Personal Finance Ministry

The purpose of the Faith & Finance ministry is to equip you with the tools needed to be financially free, so that you can live a life of generosity and significance. By attending a monthly Finance Drop-In, you can connect with our volunteer team and learn how to track expenses, create a budget, or develop goals of generosity.

How to Get Started

Gaining Control

• Get practice in expense tracking
• Create a snapshot of your current financial situation
• Learn what it means to manage your money God’s way

Building Financial Foundations

• Partner with our volunteer coaches to develop a personal budget
• Create strategies to achieve your financial goals 

Money that Makes a Difference

• Understand the impact of consumption and how to combat consumerism
• Network with others that are determined to link significance to their success
• Become part of our “peer-support” team, and help others who are looking to begin the Faith & Finance process 

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UnBroke: Financial Teaching Series

UnBroke #1 - Free From Worry  ( Financial Overview )

Though we’re all in different places when it comes to personal finances, there is one thing that we all probably share in common: we all worry about money. We worry about where it is going to come from or where it is going, about whether it’ll be there when we retire or when we stop at the ATM, about what lies around the corner or what lurks in the past. Can we get free from worrying about our finances? Is it possible to live a worry-free life when it comes to money?

UnBroke #2: Free From Confusion  ( Track Your Spending )

We live in a culture that pushes us to spend. Every day billboards, tv, radio, magazines, spam, and pop-up windows gently nudge us to keep buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't even like. By 2001 almost one half of Canadian households were spending more than they made each year! Most of us aren't even sure if that describes us! How did we end up so financially upside-down? How can we break free and break through to some financial sanity?

UnBroke #3: Free From Debt ( Recognize Your Debt )

You've seen the bumper sticker: "I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go." Maybe you have it on your car (uh, the bank's car). Maybe you thought it was actually a Bible verse! The average Canadian owes $22,000 in consumer debt, borrowing to buy cars, education, vacations, gadgets, outfits and lunches. And all of it creates pressure in our day-to-day lives. Is it even possible to be freed from all this financial pressure? What would it be like to learn to live another way?

UnBroke #4: Free For Life!  ( Giving Plan )

I want you to imagine your life--sometime off in the distant future, if necessary--where you are actually unbroke. You are free from financial worries, from financial confusion, from financial pressure; free from payments, from collection calls and shut-off notices; free from living paycheque to paycheque, from questions about retirement or your children's futures. What then? What does that life look like? What is the goal to which we are all striving in the realm of our personal finances?

 Additional Resources

• Unbroke Bible Reading Plan
• Money, Possessions and Eternity, by Randy Alcorn
• The Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey
• The Smart Cookies' Guide to Making More Dough, by Andrea Baxter, Angela Self, Katie Dunsworth, Robyn Gunn, and Sandra Hanna
• Global Rich List