FreedUp! The Biblically-Based Approach for Managing Your Finances
It’s great when you can offer a financial stewardship program that everyone in your church will find relevant and engaging. Freed up, the new 6-week program developed by Good Sense Movement and Crossroads Church is designed to do just that! In this episode of Stewardship Leader, we talk with Kirsten Swartz, the stewardship director at Crossroads, about this new program and the innovative, fun, and engaging way it is impacting congregations.
Show Notes
What you will hear in this episode:
“I really wanted to find an effective way for our people to think about money biblically, but also connected to their heart relationship with God.”
“ We wanted to have a way to engage our entire congregation, so everybody at our church.”
“The program is an app and it’s also a workbook, but it’s actually not just that. It’s a beautiful experience full of rich videos and animation to explain really complicated money illustrations and concepts, and it’s funny and fun!”
“The journal (workbook) is really just kind of a companion to the app. The meat of the content, and the experience is in the app, and then also in the group experience.”
“We start with dreaming. What are the things you love? What are the things you like? And, what has God put in your heart that you are excited about? And then you work backward from there.”
“The best way to launch this program is to do it as an all-church journey, where you have the pastor talking from the pulpit about that weeks' chapter and having the entire church go through it together.”
Resources
Freed Up Program - getfreedup.com
Crossroads Church - Crossroads Church
Good Sense Movement - Good Sense Movement
Kirsten Swartz - kirsten.swartz@crossroads.net
CSN - Stewardship Impact Online Course