About The Course
What is it?
The Money Course is a relaxed, fun, interactive, and very accessible four-session course which will;
- help guests think through wider issues of money management, the importance of financial planning, regular saving, the wise use of credit and the liberation that comes through generous living.
- explain step-by-step how to build a personal or household budget in order to take control, as well as unlocking tips and strategies on controlling and balancing personal finances day-by-day.
- explore the foothills of a biblical perspective on managing money.
- give guests the opportunity of one to one support through a personal budget coach.
Follow this link to download the full, four week course overview PDF(1.2MB)
What are the aims of the course?
The main focus of the course is deeply practical. Our aim is to empower guests to take back control if they have lost it, and give them the tools to make discerned choices about how they spend their money rather than having their circumstances dictate their choices. The course aims to help people practically, question their own attitudes and, if in difficulty, to support them through it.
The course also goes back to first principles by seeking to ground our understanding of money in the down-to-earth wisdom of the bible, and exploring why its advice is intended to build us up and give us life in all its fullness. Nevertheless, the course is explicitly designed to be accessible to all, those with a personal faith, those exploring faith, those of other faiths and of no faith at all.
Who is behind the course?
The Money Course was first written and developed by a team at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) church in 2008, and grew out of a need for explicit Christian-based teaching on the subject of money in response to numerous requests for help from people who had got themselves in a muddle financially. The first Money Course ran in January 09, has been run at HTB each term since.
In 2010, HTB/Alpha joined forces with Stewardship and Credit Action to develop the course further and make it more widely available. Both Stewardship and Credit Action have extensive experience of money education and training and readily supported the desire to further equip churches and community groups to run courses for their own community.
