Money and Stewardship

Giving & Poverty

Bible Study
Enrich Your Life: 12 Studies on Giving
Discover what Scripture has to say about giving.

Articles
The Master's Joy
by Susan Powell

Spare Change
by Lenore Yarger
Yarger shares her insight into the quandary of giving - or not giving - to panhandlers.

Video
Poverty
A 2100 Productions video originally shown at Urbana 2000. "How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods," John writes, "and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?" (1 John 3:17-18). This video candidly addresses this and other critical concerns of stewardship.

Urbana Offering
Through a fast and an offering taken for the physically and spiritually poor, delegates responded significantly and all of what was given went directly to the Offering Recipient Agencies.

The recipient agencies included such ministries as Enterprise Development International, who, through business training, mentoring relationships and loans enable the poor to develop their own micro-enterprises. Urbana funds will be targeted to empower "at risk" women in Romania. Through Mission of Mercy, Urbana offering funds will serve orphans in Bac Can, Vietnam. And World Hope International will utilize Urbana funds to give prosthetic limbs to maimed victims of civil war in Sierra Leone. These are just a few examples of how coming together in cheerful, generous giving can help those in need and bring glory to Jesus.

Read an in depth report on Mobilizing For Life in Malawi, an AIDS prevention initiative sponsored by World Relief and funded in part by the Urbana 2000 offering.

Click here to read more about the Urbana 2000 offering. Also, read more about the agencies benefiting from this offering and the specific projects and ministries to which they're dedicating these financial gifts.

Web Links
United Nations Development Program
Facts and figures on global poverty.

Read Hosting a 30 Hour Famine and then visit www.30hourfamine.org Be part of an international youth movement fighting hunger. Fast as a group and get a "taste" of what so many poverty-stricken people feel every day, and in the process raise money to help feed hungry children and families.

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