Churches help pay debts and bills.

Many churches, synagogues, and other places of worship across the county have expanded their goals and missions to help people with a more pressing need as layoffs and economic worries persist. Churches and other places of worship are providing more and more financial assistance, such as help with debt, rent, utility bills, and more. Today, it is very common for the historical place for spiritual nurture to also help people and provide financial guidance.

On common assistance program is a 13 weeks plan that was created to help people with everyday bills and debts. In one example, participants in the Bible Chapel program paid off their home mortgages, held yard sales to pay down credit card debt, reconsidered purchases that involved loans, established a well funded emergency cash fund, and there are some who cut up their credit cards. Find additional debt assistance programs and ways to get out of debt.

Debt counseling from churches

Many churches across the nation are sponsoring Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University, which is a national video program that is from Brentwood, Tenn.. The program promises to help participants get out of debt, prosper, and improve their financial situation.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, as the economy has worsened, more churches and other worship places bought the $300 curriculum based on the biblical principles that Dave Ramsey, a syndicated radio talk-show host and an author developed. Families that seek assistance with their bills from the church pay only for workbooks, which amount to about $100 for the program.

Just this year, almost 8,000 groups across the nation, the vast majority of them churches, offered the program to help people. This is about a 40% growth over the figures from last year. Incredible.

While for many religious groups and churches, financial-planning sessions and aid for paying bills might seem off the typical mission. Traditionally, those needs were to focus on pastoral counseling, feeding the hungry, and ministry to the dying.

However, many churches are changing with the time, and now providing budgeting skills, ways to get out of debt, and direct, free aid to help pay utility bills, rent, and more. This is good for America, as the more places, such as charities and churches, that offer assistance during these difficult times, the more places people have to turn to.