A four-week course for UK churches
Four weeks that treat money like discipleship.
By week four, some people have a budget written down for the first time. Others have taken a first real step out of debt. And plenty had no debt to start with, they've simply worked out what their money is for, and started giving with a smile on their face again. What moves them isn't the spreadsheet. It's seeing what God has entrusted to them and deciding to do something with it.
Piloted twice, with over thirty people
Every one of them said they'd recommend it.
Built for the UK
Pounds, pensions, ISAs and real British banks. No American examples to translate.
Hosted by anyone
No financial expertise required. If you can run a small group, you can run this.
Backed by a refund
Run a cohort. If it doesn't serve your church, I refund the licence.
We don’t do this anywhere else.
Some of the people in your church are anxious about money. Some are doing okay but drifting, never quite making progress. A few are carrying debt nobody knows about. And some look fine from every angle, but sense they've built their life to the same pattern as everyone around them, and wonder whether there's more. You see it in pastoral conversations more than they'd ever say from the front.
It isn't that nobody has tried to help. Too often the material just hasn't fitted.
You've probably felt the choice. Solid on Scripture but vague about what anyone should actually do on Monday. Or genuinely practical, properly useful, with a verse added at the end.
I've spent eighteen years running a church conference centre, taught the CAP Money syllabus, and taught Faith and Finance at our local Bible school. I've stood on both sides of that gap and both have their place. Money & Faith is what we built to close it.
What the four weeks cover
Week one. Foundations.
What God actually says about money. Identity, stewardship, contentment, practical budgeting steps and dealing honestly with shame. This is the week that changes hearts and minds for the rest to follow.
By the end of week one: a budget written down, and a lot less shame attached to it.
Week two. Vision.
Where you are now and what your money is actually for. A UK baby steps roadmap for building wealth wherever you're starting from, an honest net worth, and clear next steps.
By the end of week two: an honest number, and the next step on the roadmap.
Week three. Strategy.
How progress actually happens. Creating margin, cutting costs, increasing income, clearing debt, and a simple three-account system that runs itself.
By the end of week three: a plan for clearing debt and a system that keeps working without willpower.
Week four. Mission.
Keeping going. Consistency, accountability, grace when it goes wrong, and what generosity looks like when there's finally room for it.
By the end of week four: a way to keep going after the enthusiasm wears off.
An MOT, not a rescue.
Here’s the trouble with announcing a money course. People assume it’s for those in difficulty, and the people in difficulty are the last ones who will walk through the door. Nobody wants to be seen going.
So don’t frame it that way, because it isn’t true. Everyone puts their car through an MOT. Not because it’s broken, but because it’s sensible to check.
The couple with no debt and a decent pension find their giving changes. The two who have never argued about money discover they have never really talked about it either. The person quietly drowning finds a way through without ever having to say so out loud.
Everyone in your church handles money. Which means everyone in your church has something to gain.
Obedience opens the way.
Here’s what I’ve seen, and it’s the part I can’t quite put in a spreadsheet.
People get honest about their money. They take one step of obedience, usually a small one. And God meets them in it. Debt clears faster than the numbers said it would. Peace arrives before the balance does. Hope is restored, and hope makes people act.
That isn't a promise of wealth and it isn't a formula. It's what happens when someone realises Jesus is interested in all of them, finances included. He isn't waiting for the numbers to look better before He starts. Wherever someone is standing, He has a plan for them, and something for them to do with what He's given them.
Who you'll be pressing play on.
I'm Jonathan. I live in Cardiff, I'm married to Sarah, we've got four children, and I've been teaching on money in churches for over twenty years.
For eighteen of those I ran a church conference centre. I spent a couple of years teaching the CAP Money syllabus, sitting with people as they built a first budget. For several years I taught Faith and Finance at our local Bible school. My degree is in business economics, which has turned out to be less useful than the kitchen table conversations.
I'm not a financial advisor and I won't pretend to be one. What I have is two decades of watching what helps people in UK churches, and what doesn't.
One more thing worth saying. When the teaching reaches giving and generosity, it comes from a video rather than from the front of your church. Nobody has to wonder whether their pastor is making a point about the offering. You get to sit alongside your people and work through it with them.
Questions? Email jonathan@moneyinmotion.org and it comes straight to me and not a bot.
The feedback that comes back most isn’t about money
Well, a lot of it is about money. But people finish and tell me they feel closer to God, and that has kept me going more than anything else. What lifts first is the guilt. The sense of having failed at something they should have sorted years ago, carried privately, often for decades. When it goes, people describe feeling lighter. More peace at home. Easier conversations with a husband or wife about, well, everything. That's what four weeks on money does when you start with Jesus rather than a spreadsheet.
“Last night I listened to week one and filled in the budget. It brought me great joy getting some clarity. Today I food shopped differently and enjoyed being generous, buying food to cook for another family. The impact is greater than the four weeks.”
Ceri, pilot participant.
Another woman came on the first pilot carrying real anxiety about money. By the end she'd started building her first emergency fund. Six weeks later she lost her job. Before the course that would have meant fear and sleepless weeks. Instead she prayed, used the fund she'd started building, and found new work inside the month. What changed wasn't the size of the savings. It was that she walked through it in peace.
You don’t need to be the money expert.
It’s hosting, not teaching. If you can gather people, put a kettle on and make people feel welcome - you're in! Everything is delivered on video, so you press play and facilitate the conversation. Hosts can even work through the material themselves at the same time.
No financial expertise needed
If you can host a small group, you can run this.
Nobody shares their bank balance
Personal numbers stay personal. Always.
The app does the heavy lifting
Our budgeting app is free on iOS, Android and web, so nobody arrives needing to already know how.
Runs in a normal small group
Four sessions, each under two hours start to finish. A normal evening, in a home or at church.
What’s included
Everything in one place, the moment you buy.
Your own course login
Arrives the moment you pay, with the facilitator’s guide, host slides and promotion pack ready to download.
Four filmed teaching weeks
Land by 14 September, in good time for an autumn cohort. Short segments or one long file, streamed or downloaded, whichever suits your venue.
A host guide and slide deck
The discussion questions ready made, so you know what happens in each session.
A promotion pack to fill your group
Invitation copy, social graphics and a notice to read out, so you’re not writing that from scratch.
Workbooks are the one thing charged separately, because everyone works in their own book. You can add them to your licence at September prices below. Everyone taking part also gets the Money in Motion app free, and you get me on email whenever you need anything.
September launch month
Six churches came in as founding churches and they start their groups this autumn.
Every church pays the same now. Fifty pounds for a twelve-month licence, covering as many groups as you want to run in that year. One home group or every small group in the church, same price.
Workbooks are the only other cost, because everyone works in their own book and takes it home. Through September they come bundled with the licence at launch month prices, plus postage:
Licence only — £50
Licence + 5 workbooks — £90
Licence + 10 workbooks — £120
Licence + 20 workbooks — £170
The bundles close on Wednesday 30 September. After that, workbooks go back to £12 each, so the ten you’d pay £70 for this month would be £120. The licence stays at £50 either way, so the saving sits in the books and there’s nothing to be gained by waiting.
Planning a January cohort? Buy the books now at September prices and put them in a cupboard. Your twelve months runs from 14 September, so January sits comfortably inside it with room for a second group afterwards.
Card payment, and your login arrives straight away. Teaching films land 14 September. If your treasurer needs an invoice and a bank transfer, email me and I’ll raise one.
The risk is mine, not yours.
This is new. I can't yet point you to fifty churches who've run it, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
So run one cohort. If it doesn’t serve your church, email me and I’ll refund the licence in full. The workbooks are printed and posted, so I can’t take those back — keep them and use them anyway.
No forms and no conditions. Just tell me it didn’t work and why, because that’s worth more to me than the £50.
What it costs
Twelve-month licence
£50
per year
Unlimited groups for twelve months. All four weeks of teaching, the facilitator’s guide, host slides and the promotion pack.
Workbooks
£12
each
Everyone works in their own book and keeps it. September bundles bring that down to £8, £7 or £6 a book.
September bundles
from £93.50
all in
Licence plus books, postage included. Five books £93.50, ten £124, twenty £176. Closes 30 September.
Found this and wish your church would run it?
That’s how most churches end up hearing about it. Send this page to whoever makes those decisions at yours, or forward it with a line saying you’d come. That’s usually all it takes.
In the meantime, the budgeting app is free and the Thursday email is where I write about this every week.
Questions churches ask
We’ve already run a money course. Why this one?
Those courses are great, and genuinely good at what they were built for, which is skills and tools. This is discipleship. It's unashamedly Jesus first, it starts with what God says about money and works outwards, and it was built for a church to run rather than adapted into one.
Does it tell people to tithe?
It deals with tithing honestly and from Scripture, but not forcefully, and leaves it with the participant to consider. It's also taught by someone outside your church who has nothing to gain from the answer. Generosity and giving are covered, but how that works out is left open, and people are pointed back to their own leaders for that conversation.
Is this financial advice?
No. It's discipleship and education. Nothing here is regulated financial advice, and where someone needs a professional we say so.
What if people in our church are in serious debt?
The course helps, and it's designed so nobody has to disclose anything out loud. For anyone in crisis we point clearly towards specialist help. The two go hand in hand, but this is not a replacement for a debt charity.
Is this American material with British spelling?
No. It's written and filmed in Wales, for the UK. Pounds, pensions, ISAs, real British banks and interest rates people will recognise from their own statements. There's a roadmap for building wealth that owes something to the best of what's out there, rebuilt properly for how money actually works here.
What if only five people sign up?
Run it with five. It works in a living room with a handful of people and it works with thirty in a church hall. Small groups tend to talk more honestly, which is usually where the good stuff happens.
We'd rather run this in January.
That's fine, and plenty will. Your twelve months doesn't start until the films land on 14 September, so a January cohort sits comfortably inside it with room for a second one afterwards. The workbook bundles close on 30 September though, so if January is your plan, buy the books now at September prices and store them until you need them.
When does our twelve months actually start?
On 14 September, when the teaching films go live, not on the day you pay. You get the portal, facilitator's guide and materials the moment you buy, and the clock doesn't start until you've got the films.
What if it isn't right for our church?
Then I refund the licence. Run a cohort, tell me it didn't work, and the money goes back. Keep the workbooks.
How do we actually get the material?
Your login arrives the moment you pay. Everything sits in one place: the teaching to stream or download, the host slides, or one single video file to play straight through if you'd rather not use slides at all. Workbooks come in the post. Each session comes in short segments or one long file. If your church hall has unreliable wifi, download everything in advance and play it from a laptop.
How long does each session take?
A normal small group evening. Two main teaching videos each session with time for reflection, discussion, feedback and a half time break. All done in under two hours.
Can we run it more than once?
On the annual licence, as many times as you like for twelve months. How many can you do?
Do we need to buy workbooks for everyone?
Yes, and that's deliberate. People do the work in the book and take it home. They're £12 each, and through September they come bundled with the licence: five, ten or twenty at £8, £7 or £6 a book, postage included.
Our treasurer can't pay by card. Can we have an invoice?
Of course, and plenty do. Email me, tell me what you need, and I'll raise an invoice for bank transfer and set your access up manually. It doesn't slow anything down.
Your people are already making money decisions this week.
The question is whether they're making them with anything from Scripture in hand. Four weeks won't fix everything. It will change how your church thinks about money, and for some people it will change considerably more than that.
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