Faith-Based Organizations
Faith-Based Organizations
Faith is the unwavering belief in the things that are unseen. Unfortunately for most people of faith and for many of the people outside your congregation, what is experienced each day tests our faith and strips our hope. Today many people are living their life in a paradox; they go to Church and become renewed in their faith and then go home to live life in “the real world”. When they leave the walls of the Church they find themselves thrust into a life of stress, foreclosures, worry, market losses, fear, financial scandals, anxiety, overwhelming debt, job losses, a struggling economy, and economic uncertainty. Each day they find themselves lacking any direction in life and seeking answers in the very institutions where they feel the solitude and safety of God's love, institutions of faith. While this may not be the paradox for everyone within your congregation, what we have found is that it is the paradox of many, sitting quietly, in silent desperation. In your neighborhoods and in your cities there are thousands of individuals searching for a new direction in life, they are looking for the very identity and purpose that God has predestined for them. It’s not about finding answers but discovering the answers that are already before us!
As financial planners, wealth educators, academics and experts we hear stories about the economic crisis taking place in every household every day. On a daily basis, people from all over the United States have contacted us for help. Through their cries and turmoil, we have heard the pain taking place in their lives, we see marriages on the brink of divorce and we see the impact it has on the children. Worse, if things do not change, we see a negative legacy of generational ineptitude being passed from one generation to another and the cycle repeating until ultimately it is accepted as the norm. As a leader within your organization we are certain that you hear the same stories that we hear and you may feel powerless to do anything about it. In a recent poll done by Harris Interactive, nearly 4 in five adults (78%) agreed that they would benefit from advice and answers to everyday financial questions from a professional, and nearly one third (31%) strongly agree. So as Church leaders, you may be asking, what can be done to conquer this problem and help people redirect their focus on what matters most, their faith, discovering their true identity and cultivating their walk with God? Yes, we do understand that there are problems in addressing financial concerns within the congregation, problems such as:
- Who holds the proper licensing and education required to address specific financial issues?
- How do we minimize the liability issues for the Church by offering financial counseling or advice?
- How can we possibly add another program or ministry to our long list of programs and ministries?
- How can we afford to purchase a comprehensive financial education program?
- How can we afford the staff, facilities, refreshments, childcare and every other expense that goes with adding a new program or ministry?
- Most of all, how can we let our congregation know we are truly concerned about their financial, emotional and spiritual well-being and not create the perception that we are trying to get directly involved in their finances just for the economic benefit of the institution?
After many years of research and development and in working with faith-based organizations just like yours, Life Focus LLC has developed a systematic approach to address all of these issues through our virtual ministry series. The virtual ministry allows you the ability to offer practical faith-based solutions to the financial struggles and issues facing the majority of your congregation without any of the problems outlined above, we seek to empower the congregation in their personal finances to ultimately empower the church in their giving.
- Life Focus, LLC will host the entire virtual ministry series and virtual workshops on our servers and provide comprehensive workbooks for each participant at absolutely no cost. We will even, if you choose, brand each of the workshops with your Church logo, Church information, and a personal message from the pastor at no cost.
Workshops Include but are not limited to the following
- Budgeting and Financial Planning Series
- Debt Acceleration Series
- Retirement and Investment Series
- Mortgage and Banking Series
- Credit Rebuilding Series
- Estate Planning Series
- Establishing Proper Protection through Insurance Series
- Entrepreneurship and Owning Your Own Business Series
- Planning for College Series
- The Emotions of Money Series
- The Church organization will conduct a basic survey with the congregation to choose five of the 10 workshops that will be offered in each virtual ministry series.
- Each workshop will be offered to anyone within your congregation that may be interested in a particular financial workshop featured on a prescheduled night of the week. All workshops are conducted in a completely virtual format, so the participant can remain in the comfort of their own home. All they will need is a computer with Internet access and the ability to print or save the workshop workbook.
- With each workshop, all participants will be required to login and sign disclosure and liability forms through E- signature absolving the Church organization from any liability for the content provided. Copies of the liability and disclosure forms will be provided to the Church administration for their records.
- Written surveys will be conducted at the end of each workshop for further workshop development, feedback and participant assessments. Upon request copies of the surveys, feedback forms and participant assessments will be made available to the Church administration to evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual series among their congregation.
- In addition, all participants will receive a free Life Focus Discovery Advantage Membership valued at more than $300. Any individual who desires to take more aggressive action or for those who need immediate help, a toll-free number and Web address will be provided should they choose to become a full member of Life Focus.
- For any participants who decide to become a full paying members of Life Focus, the Church organization will receive 10% of that participants initial monthly membership fee as a onetime donation from Life Focus, LLC to subsidize the growth of their financial literacy ministry and support the Church in its ability to grow and profoundly impact more lives.
Honestly ask yourself; what is my congregation really focusing on each day?
Is it all of the financial stresses, daily anxieties, and perpetual worries that the world constantly thrusts in front of them?
Our belief is that your FOCUS will ultimately become your REALITY.
It is up to each of us to help change what the average person focuses on so they came begin to focus on what matters to them the most--becoming that person that God intended them to be. Now you have that ability to be that agent of change. All that is required is that you contact us toll-free at 1-877 543-3175 for more information or click the button below and send your request to speak with one of our workshop specialists about setting up your own virtual ministry today!
