Submitted by Admin2 on August 15, 2007 - 2:59pm.

We’re offering More Than Money Matters, a series of interactive, values-based financial education workshops developed by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans in response to congregations such as ours.

More Than Money Matters starts with a foundation of stewardship. You’ll learn how to identify what’s most important in your life and set goals. You’ll also learn how to make sharing, saving and spending decisions in line with your values and use basic management tools to help you budget, reduce debt and find money to save.

The six-workshop series includes:

• Stewardship and Values—Define what stewardship means to you, develop a values statement and analyze your spending habits.
• Goals and Budget—Identify your goals, estimate their cost, develop a budget and establish a recordkeeping system.
• Finding Money to Save—Discover ways to increase your income and decrease your expenses, and learn to develop a savings plan.
• Communicating About Money—Learn to make conversations about money a regular, positive part of your life and how to introduce your spouse and children to money management.
• Managing Debt—Learn what debt is, how to manage it and ways to improve your credit score.
• Managing Pressure to Spend—Learn how attitudes about money and pressure from advertising affect you and identify strategies to prevent overspending.

The workshops will be held on Wednesday, October 3, 10, 17, 24 & November 7, 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 128 W 33rd ST, Minneapolis (corner of 33rd St and Pillsbury Ave S).  A meal will be served before each workshop at 5:45 p.m.  Child care will be available.

There is no cost for you to attend the More Than Money Matters workshops. To register, please contact Jennifer Vickerman, our local Thrivent Financial representative, at Jennifer.vickerman@thrivent.com or 952-400-0555. The registration deadline is September 24th.

• Location: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 128 W 33rd ST, Minneapolis (corner of 33rd St and Pillsbury Ave S).
• Start: 3 Oct 2007 - 5:45pm
• Stop: 3 Oct 2007 - 8:00pm

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