Growing Generous Souls: Becoming Grace-Filled Stewards

Growing Generous Souls reminds church leaders and inquiring individuals of their God-given identities; helps them experience the freedom of generous-hearted, gratitude-based living that Christ offers; and equips them to embrace a life lived in alignment with God's design. Challenging the ethic of scarcity, it invites people to adopt an ethic of enough and find a deeper sense of contentment. The book reorients stewardship from a church program to a way of life that nurtures grateful people. It identifies unbridled consumerism as a spiritual challenge. The book prompts readers to reconsider the use of money, relationships, and ways of caring for one another as spiritual issues that can instead be powerful tools. Vital, passionate generosity can become the key to "soul making," as part of a sparkling, lifelong, whole-life adventure.

Author: Betsy Schwarzentraub
Publisher: Generous Stewards Communications
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 370
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781532388682

About the Author
Schwarzentraub, Betsy: - Rev. Dr. Betsy Schwarzentraub is the author of Growing Generous Souls: Becoming Grace-Filled Stewards. She has been a teacher, writer and national consultant on stewardship and generosity, and is the author of Afire With God: Becoming Spirited Stewards, as well as the 2012-2016 United Methodist Guidelines book, Stewardship: Nurturing Generous Living. Out of years of pastoring congregations, she came to a deep passion for stewardship and sought to teach it on a wider canvas. She has served as the Director of Stewardship for the General Board of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, and worked directly with congregations as Director of Stewardship in California and Nevada for more than a decade. Betsy has conducted on-site consulting and website writing for foundations and churches in nine states across the U.S. and has served in various leadership capacities for the National Association of United Methodist Foundations and the Ecumenical Stewardship Center. She taught two years for the Christian Stewardship Association's Meyer Institute for Steward Leadership, receiving their Outstanding Stewardship Educator Award, and is Stewardship Consultant for the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation. Betsy received her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological School in San Anselmo and her Masters of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She and her husband are proud parents and grandparents, and love stewarding the land and animals at their home in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California.