Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Day 1
On Monday Jaye and I drove over to a friends church along with a couple of folks from my church to begin our 15 week course called Financial Peace University. It is a course based on Biblical values that help people live debt free. Step one, or as they call it baby step one, is to save up an emergency fund of one thousand bucks. That emergency fund is then to grow to 3-6 months savings of what it would cost to live on if there were a BIG emergency. We'll keep you posted on our progress as the class goes on and as to what the other baby steps will be. As of today, our baby step seems more like a giant step because taxes are just around the corner. I have other friends that have offered this program at their churches and they report that they have seen a great reduction in debt of those that have been through it. So let's hope that it works for this poor youth pastor and his babysitting wife. My idea of bettering my financial future is to get this motorcycle to save on gas prices...today in Marion gas is $3.49.
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We have looked at a lot of Dave Ramsey's stuff and at one time actually had the first step accomplished. Then life happened and we haven't had it back. Would love to get there again though. Keep us updated. I would love to possibly go through the program too!
Brian & Jaye -
Jessica and I are 8-weeks into FPU and we're LOVING IT! Telling our money what to do instead of it telling US what to do is something I never imagined would bring such satisfaction. We're now past baby step #1 for the THIRD time (life happened and we re-adjusted three times already!) and we're proud of ourselves for sticking with it!
If we can do this, YOU can do this!
-Stevan
Our church has been doing FPU for a long time now. We haven't taken part, but everything I've heard is really great.
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