It will prepare them to return home to lead small groups through this Crown course in their local churches and communities. We will need to find two couples or two individuals from different households in your local church congregation who would be interested in taking this training to become Crown leaders. In this day of rampant advertising and easy-credit promotion, 1.4 million families in the United States filed bankruptcies in 1998 because they faced insurmountable debts. National individual and family debt totals continue to increase each day. For several years, more than half of all divorces have occurred because couples have not learned how to resolve their financial problems.
Most young people enter adulthood and marriage poorly prepared to handle financial responsibilities.
Crown Financial Ministries, a non-denominational organization, has produced curriculum that teaches God's counsel and principles about finances in an appealing and practical way. Study materials are available for every age level, and they will be shown at a booth at the Convention. However, Hope and I are most familiar with the Crown small group study for adults, and we would like to see this course used in all of our local churches. We ask your help to promote this information in your local churches and other churches within your areas of influence. Crown requires two leaders to conduct a class, and one couple counts as only one leader, so there needs to be either two couples or two individuals from different households in your congregation.