{"id":1661,"date":"2013-07-01T03:08:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T07:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccumc.org\/christianformation\/?page_id=1661"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:37:22","slug":"financial-discipleship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/financial-discipleship\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Discipleship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4314\" style=\"width:350px;height:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-720x720.png 720w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/image-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Financial Discipleship Committee&nbsp;is here to promote effective financial discipleship in our churches, ministries, and individuals across the North Carolina Conference. This includes the promotion of qualities like good stewardship and extravagant generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Financial Discipleship Team Offers Free Consultations to NC Conference Congregations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has reminded us that we are all in this together! The shifts our churches have experienced help us realize that we must rethink stewardship and work collaboratively toward ministry goals when planning. This is especially true when encouraging generosity within the local church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your North Carolina Conference Financial Discipleship Team is here and ready to come alongside pastors and finance teams to think creatively and intentionally as you grow generosity in your faith community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4397\" style=\"width:375px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-1440x810.png 1440w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/christian-formation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/05\/Financial-Discipleship-1-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team is offering a limited number of consultation opportunities. If you are a pastor or finance team who would like to brainstorm or plan with a Financial Discipleship team member, we can offer up to four one-hour Zoom consultations. Consultations can address specific concerns, goals for your parish\/charge, soliciting larger donations, or can be a time for collaborative brainstorming about a sermon series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Financial Discipleship Team looks forward to inspiring and equipping leaders in partnership with local congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please complete the form below to indicate your interest. 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