{"id":13935,"date":"2016-09-22T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2016-09-22T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:44:00","slug":"lewis-center-for-church-leadership-and-wesley-theological-seminary-offer-free-clergy-personal-finance-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/lewis-center-for-church-leadership-and-wesley-theological-seminary-offer-free-clergy-personal-finance-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Center for Church Leadership and Wesley Theological Seminary Offer Free Clergy Personal Finance Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 The Lewis Center for Church Leadership and Wesley Theological Seminary have gathered free resources to help pastors better understand and manage their personal finances. The resources are available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchleadership.com\/clergyfinances\">https:\/\/www.churchleadership.com\/clergyfinances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA basic responsibility as Christian stewards is to manage personal financial resources so that we can care for ourselves and our families and marshal the resources needed to respond to God\u2019s call to generous giving,\u201d says Lewis Center Director Lovett H. Weems, Jr. \u201cThis is especially true for clergy who are expected to teach and model faithful stewardship within our congregations. Mastering personal finances is both a personal and a pastoral responsibility.\u201d The free resources offered can help clergy better meet these responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Clergy Personal Finance Resources topics: Why Clergy Personal Finances Matter; Personal Finances and Budgeting; Debt; Compensation and Taxes; Insurance; Investing; and Estate Planning.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><small>The Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary is a resource for clergy, lay, and denominational leaders. Through resources, research, and teaching, the Center supports visionary spiritual leaders in addressing issues crucial to the church\u2019s faithful and fruitful witness.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 The Lewis Center for Church Leadership and Wesley Theological Seminary have gathered free resources to help pastors better understand and manage their personal finances. The resources are available at\u00a0https:\/\/www.churchleadership.com\/clergyfinances. \u201cA basic responsibility as Christian stewards is to manage personal financial resources so that we can care for ourselves and our families and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":13936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482,438,115],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clergy","8":"category-press-release","9":"category-resources"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/coins-948603_1280-702x336.jpg?fit=702%2C336&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-3CL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13939,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions\/13939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}