Frugal for an American

I found this (via FOXNews.com) interesting. It is not really a discipleship issue, but shows financial stewarship.
UPDATE 2009-02-24:  For unnamed reasons the author of the blog has taken it down.

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A Must Read

I was pointed to this from another blog. Some things should be “viral.”

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#1 of 3 Things Leaders Need to Think About Every Day

     Day two of The Next Big Idea conference is over. Rick Rusaw led a session titled Working with High-Capacity Volunteers. In that session he told us the three things leaders need to think about every day, especially if they are working with “high-capacity” volunteers. Those are volunteers who are problem solvers, think in terms of sustainability, [...]

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Faith Development in Children

     Today was the first day of The Next Big Idea conference at Baylor University. Dr. Diana Garland led the session Actively Faithful-Youth & Family Ministry. Some of the things that stuck out in my notes are:

The #1 request of families they surveyed in churches of several denominations was to get help serving others beyond ourselves as a [...]

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Prevention Before Intervention

     Brad Hoffman was our speaker at the WRBA Pastors’ Conference today. He shared with us the path that led him to co-author the book Preventing Ministry Failure and some of what he learned on that path. As he studied cases of ministers who have had forced terminations from their churches he noted the reasons [...]

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Recharge for Success: 2009 Ministers of Education Retreat

     Planning for the retreat has been wrapped up and we are headed headlong into making sure the word gets out. Several mailings from Dickie Dunn have gone out and I have made a couple of emails and such to people in “region six.” 
Full info for the retreat can be found at http://www.bgct.org/meretreat.
     We are planning for [...]

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