Registration Opens for "Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity" Online Course

9/23/2015

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Registration is now open for "Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity" by Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub. The online course is jointly offered by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center and TransformingTheChurch.org.

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Registration is now open for "Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity" by Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub. The online course is jointly offered by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center and TransformingTheChurch.org.

Because transformative stewardship includes understanding of our culture, the Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity course will explore how our culture influences faithful stewardship and generous giving. Students will be able to frame insightful critical questions about consumerism, embrace God’s vision of sufficiency, recognize the additional impact of technology on consumerism, and begin to create a Generosity Plan for their congregation. Topics include critiquing mainstream -culture assumptions about achievement and individualism, redefining themselves from consumers to stewards, shifting their focus from “the market of one” to hands-on community work, and strengthening a culture of generosity within their faith network.

Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity is part of the Steward Leaders Engaging God’s Mission online course series offered by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center and TransformingTheChurch.org. Students enrolled in Steward Leaders Engaging God’s Mission courses learn principles and practices relating to stewardship and leadership through studying Scripture, exploring theological principles, developing holistic perspectives, critiquing culture, creating healthy relationships, and achieving financial health.

Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub is an author and consultant in Stewardship and Generosity, and the former Director of Stewardship for the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship and the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation. She serves on the Resource Editorial Team for the Ecumenical Stewardship Center, and is the author of the 2012-2016 United Methodist Guidelines book, Stewardship: Nurturing Generous Living, as well as Afire With God: Becoming Spirited Stewards. A graduate of the University of Redlands, she received a Master of Divinity at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, and a Doctor of Ministry at the San Francisco Theological School in San Anselmo, California.

One of the Series "Steward Leaders Engaging God’s Mission"

Brought to you by Ecumenical Stewardship Center and TransformingTheChurch.org, “BS-01 - Stewardship and Culture: Building Contagious Generosity” is the first in a series titled "Steward Leaders Engaging God’s Mission" consisting of a total of six courses. Students enrolled in the series will learn principles and practices relating to stewardship and leadership through studying Scripture, exploring holistic perspectives, critiquing culture, developing healthy relationships, and achieving financial health.

About the Ecumenical Stewardship Center

As a Network for Growing Stewards, the Ecumenical Stewardship Center (ESC) provides resources that encourage the development of generous giving and faithful stewardship as transformational spiritual practices for faith communities and their leaders. Twenty denominations and several stewardship-related organizations in the US and Canada are partners in ESC's mission and ministry. You can find them on the ESC website at www.stewardshipresources.org.

About TransformingTheChurch.org

TransformingTheChurch.org is a state-of-the-art online resource that provides high-quality distance education for churches and congregations; both clergy and laity. For additional information about TransformingTheChurch.org, see: https://www.transformingthechurch.org/who-we-are