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Trip of Perspective: Haiti June 26 to July 3, 2019

Event Date: June 26, 2019

We’ll meet grassroots urban & rural leaders building inspiring, liberating community-based responses to systemic challenges. We’ll learn about Haiti’s culture, history and policies in relation to the US. Relationship-building and daily reflection will anchor our time together. In Port-au-Prince, we’ll be with dedicated young people from economically marginalized communities starting   [Read More …]

Meet Faith and Money Network Board Member Paul Taylor

As a small business owner, I was aware of the growing wealth of our family.  I was also committed to not letting affluence dominate my values and lifestyle.  What I have found most helpful in this struggle to maintain spiritual balance has been my association with Faith & Money Network.  Through trips of perspective, workshops, and wonderful personal relationships I have been helped to keep a   [Read More …]

GIVING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

“Loving God is an intentional commitment to self-sacrifice for the well-being of others.”          Rev. Mike Slaughter 2018 was a year of uncertain times, and not just for the stock market which experienced the worst year since the recession. Certainly, that was and is the situation if your job is affected by Trump’s threatened tariffs or government shutdowns, as well as for retirees whose   [Read More …]

Meet Faith and Money Network Board Member Kaci Jensen

Becoming the first of my immediate and extended family to be a doctor, expanded my financial world. I believe that God gave me this work to do, and the income comes with it. He wants me to use the income for His purposes. I was pressured by others to buy nice things in the first couple years of my full-time work. I was paying off my student debt and giving to the church. I wasn’t sure how much to   [Read More …]

A GIFT FOR ALL TIME: A GIFT FOR GOD

“After the wise men had gone, an angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up! Hurry and take the child and his mother to Egypt! Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is looking for the child and wants to kill him.’”                                                 Matthew 2:13, The Poverty and Justice Bible What do you plan to give God this year? How   [Read More …]

A LIFE OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION

Read Part 1: The Early Years Part 2: Two Teachers Appear Living simply was important for both Frank and Ruth. Choosing to have a smaller home and to drive an older car, and by being generally detached from “things,” allowed a rich space to emerge from which they could give. Together they raised their three children to follow their lead. Frank related the following story about his old Dodge   [Read More …]

Meet Faith and Money Network Board Member Andy Loving

Andy Loving is the founding partner of Just Money Advisors* and its lead advisor. A Certified Financial Planner® and an ordained minister, Andy creates investment strategies that help clients meet their financial goals in a way that proactively contributes to justice and environmental sustainability. He has won multiple awards for helping clients put capital into financial institutions that serve   [Read More …]

A LIFE OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION

Part 1: The Early Years There are some things that are easy to say yes to like homemade dessert, a ride home, and a chance to hear an elder talk about the things that matter most. It’s especially easy when that elder is Frank Butler, board member emeritus with the Faith and Money Network. For years I’ve been hearing that Frank is a living, breathing saint, but to be honest I thought that was an   [Read More …]