Free Workshop!
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Saturday November 7, 2015 9 AM - Noon
First Unity Fellowship Church
5110 Louetta Road
Spring, TX 77379
Bishop M. Bernard Boyd & Lady P, Pastors
We're in the home stretch for the year 2015... It's close but it's not over. If you have a goal to improve your finances in 2015 this workshop is for you!
By the end of this 3 hour workshop you will be educated and empowered to close out the year with strong and solid financial practices.
The following 4 tracks will be covered in this workshop
1. Setup A Spending Plan For Your Household.
All participants will receive the Money reVerse spending plan workbook. In this session we will demonstrate how to use this spending plan workbook to manage and track household income and spending. Take away from this session enablement to take control and effectively manage your personal finances!
2. Take The Savings Challenge!
Learn the biblical principles and practical ways to establish and maintain a savings plan for your household. Take the First Unity savings challenge and increase your savings by $1,378 in one year. Don’t have any savings now? This is your chance to get started - NOW!!
3. Get a World Financial Events Update.
As Christians, we prepare to influence the world by first understanding what’s going on in the world. In this session we will go through the details of a current financial event so that all will have a better understanding. Topic will be one that is in our current news…the Greece debt crisis, our US debt ceiling, US energy and oil prices. Financially, you will be more “in the know!”
4. Learn US Stock Market Concepts.
You don’t have to be wealthy to invest, but you must invest to be wealthy. Get a market introduction in this primer session. Walk away with a definition of the DOW, NASDAQ and S&P 500 and understand how they are trending now. Don’t know if you have an interest in the financial markets? Sit through this overview and see if your interest is peaked for more!
This is a no-cost workshop that is sponsored by First Unity Fellowship Church. Registration is required to attend.
Sign up today and I will see you there! It's gonna be great!!
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Cry aloud, spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
The prayer that all participants will be reading and agreeing upon was written by Dr. Tony Evans, the 2016 Honorary Chairman. This prayer will be read throughout the nation at 11 AM Central time on Thursday May 5th. The effect of this unification will be a wave of prayer flowing from one coast to the other, illustrating the unity of God’s people and acknowledging His dominion over the circumstances facing the nation and the world.
A capture of the full prayer is as follows:*
Dear heavenly Father, we come to You today as a humble people desperate for Your supernatural intervention on behalf of our beloved nation. First, we thank You for all the blessings You have bestowed on our land, blessings that have allowed us to bring so much good and benefit to not only our own citizens but also to the rest of the world. The very ideals upon which this country was founded were based on biblical truths, no matter how some try to rewrite history to deny that very fact today.
This is why our hearts are so broken over how You continue to be marginalized and dismissed by both our people and our institutions. We are also saddened by the fact that Your people have contributed greatly to the spiritual apathy that now engulfs us. Our satisfaction in remaining religious without being fully committed to living out the truths of Your Word has caused us to become co-conspirators with the forces of evil that are destroying us as a society.
It is for this reason that we personally and collectively repent of our carnality and recommit ourselves to becoming visible and verbal disciples of Jesus Christ. Enable us, by Your Spirit, to no longer be secret agent Christians but rather to publicly declare and live out Your truth in a spirit of love so that You feel welcome in our country once again.
Thank You for Your promise to hear our prayers when we call to You with hearts of repentance and obedience, which is how we are appealing to You today, Father. On behalf of Your church, we affirm afresh the priority You are to us that You would fill every dimension of our lives as we seek to bring You glory through the advancement of Your kingdom in our personal lives, our family lives, and in the lives of our churches and our government leaders. We confidently invite heaven’s intervention into all the affairs of our nation and we praise You in advance for Your answer.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
by Dr. Tony Evans
For more information on our National Day of prayer including a link to the audio download of this prayer visit 
you reach either of these times of life. In checking your Social Security Statement you will accomplish the following:
By being obedient to the Christian call to give to the building of God’s kingdom, to assist the poor and to help those that cannot help themselves, we cannot escape being givers. Being a giver satisfies that internal mandate to assist while also honoring biblical scripture.
The Internal Revenue Service honors us when we give to charity and religious organizations by giving us a dollar for dollar tax deduction for every gift that we give. To get this tax deduction for our gifts, we must be aware and compliant to the IRS written acknowledgement guidelines for charitable deductions.
According to IRS Publication 1771, as a donor we cannot claim a tax deduction for any single contribution of $250 or more without a written acknowledgement of the gift from the receiving organization given in the same time period. An annual statement from the church or organization given within the same tax time period satisfies this request.
Over the years I’ve had cases in which I’ve given a gift of $250 or more to a church that I’ve visited but I did not get a written acknowledgement of it.
As the tax payer, it is my responsibility to ensure that I have the the proper receipts before I include any deduction on my tax return. Non-profit organizations are responsible for issuing receipts and acknowledgement but there is no penalty assigned to an organization that does not provide required document to their donors. It is important that you personally track your giving and request any missing written acknowledgements before you file your tax return. Over the years I’ve found that many larger churches have this process automated where understandably, small churches do not. I’ve followed-up with smaller churches to request the required paperwork to claim the gift as a tax deduction. There’s never a problem in getting the receipts, it’s just an added step that I must take.
There are no IRS forms for churches and charities to use in providing donor written acknowledgements. A letter written by a leader in the organization on their letterhead is sufficient. It also is not necessary to have the donor’s social security number or tax ID number on the receipt. For more information on when your social security number is required and when it is not, read 
When I speak of managing personal finances, I’m referring to an active process of specifically knowing your financial condition, setting financial goals and allocating time to make a plan, log your actuals, measure your progress and make lifestyle decisions that are designed to help you to meet your goals. I’m talking about knowing down to the penny how much income do you have, how much debt you have, what does it cost you to live on a monthly basis, how much savings you have, what is your rate of return on your investments and a few other key money metrics.
Here's a few of the many scriptures that encourage us to make plans and be diligent managers.
I was blessed to be invited to be among an impressive list of guest speakers, teachers and performers as a part of the 
I was so honored to be a guest speaker for a financial class at Message Church in Bedford, Texas. The class is "How to create a healthy financial life" and it consists of members of Message Church that have committed themselves to being doers of the word and improving their finances. I enjoyed every minute of sharing with the group and I continue to pray that every attendee continues to be blessed and empowered by something that I said as it was blended with the Holy Spirit working within every heart.
Our topic for the evening was Financial Credibility. Because the Lord wants us to be a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hidden, one way to do that in our financial life it to have a sterling reputation that cannot be disputed. The Lord has called us to be financially credible. I challenged the group by giving 'anyone the will' a five part assignment designed to empower every participant in getting, tracking and improving their credit scores in the next 90 days. Thanks to everyone that is taking on the challenge as an addition to the normal class assignments!
Message church in Bedford Texas is lead by 
Throughout the Christian Holy Bible there is evidence of seasons - a period of time that is characterized by a particular activity, event or weather pattern. In ministering about managing finances following the principles outlined Christian Biblical principles, this session introduces the concept of financial seasons. Attendees will walk away equipped to identify and understand their current financial season and employ financial practical application steps that harmonize with that current financial season.
This service is free and open to the public. Here’s the details.
Date / Time: Sunday August 16, 2015 / 8:30 AM
Pastors: Bishop M. Bernard Boyd and Pamela Boyd (Lady P)
Location: First Unity Fellowship Church
5110 Louetta Road
Spring, Tx 77379
(3rd Building on the right)