e often hear that Jesus talked more about money than anything else. Yet Lutherans tend not to discuss money in polite conversation, and our nation’s teenagers are graduat- ing from high school without know- ing how to balance a checkbook. In this electronic age, they may not even know what a check- book is.
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Teaching teens about money
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Craig E. Brown, a pas- tor of First Lutheran, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, thinks the church is responsible for teaching money management. In fact, when First set out to teach teenagers how to man- age their money, its publicity pointed out that:
• New data shows that 1 out of 5 bank-
ruptcies in America this year were college students. • Debt load has now replaced academic failure as the No. 1 reason students drop out of college. Brown, a former TV news reporter, recently offered a five-week class called Generation Change to teach church and community teens to save money, avoid credit card debt and stay in school. “We want to reach these teens before it gets to a crisis level,” Brown said. “We see it as a ministry to the entire community.”
Iowa pastor believes
it’s the church’s job By Terri Mork Speirs
Speirs is a writer and communications consultant, member of St. John Lutheran Church, Des Moines, Iowa, and blogs at
thesnakecharmerswife.blogspot.com.
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