Guidelines for Church Charity
The recession is here. People are in financial trouble. They are looking for help.
Churches are where people have turned to for help ever since the beginning of the church. The Book of Acts records this (Acts 6). The early church's officers created a new office, deacon, to deal with this problem.
Deacons have the responsibility of helping poor people, whether church members or outsiders.
There is almost no training for deacons in any denomination. They rarely know how to determine who should get help or how much.
There is a brand-new website that shows deacons how to make better decisions with the church's charity money. It also provides tools for them to use to show people with financial problems how to make better decisions with their money. It is here: www.ResourcesForDeacons.org.
Send this link to any deacon you know. Maybe he will share it with fellow deacons.
Pass it along to your pastor, too.
It wouldn't hurt you to take a look at the money management strategy it presents for church members . . . even if you're not a church member.