Salt & Light courses
Salt & Light is a Bible-based financial teaching course to help you demonstrate God’s kingdom locally. It helps you discover how to become better stewards of God’s resources and actively engage with your local community, church, and youth.
Salt & Light is made available as a collaborative project between Christian Aid Ministries and Strength to Strength.
Salt & Light financial stewardship courses provide a resource for Anabaptist churches who aspire to become trustworthy stewards of the resources God gives to them and desire to share God’s principles with others.
“The Salt & Light course taught me how to have a healthy relationship with money.”
Salt & Light participant
Interviews about Salt & Light course
Bryant Martin interviews Curtis Martin and Kent Hawbaker.
Bryant Martin interviews Craig Steiner.
Bryant Martin and Sam Baer interviews Clyde Zimmerman and Nelson Miller.
Select a Track to best benefit your audience
Salt & Light is designed with multiple “Tracks,” giving you the flexibility to tailor the course to your participants. Each Track aims to meet participants where they are and point to God’s plan for the resources entrusted to us. Each Track includes Foundational Principles lessons as well as Additional Topics lessons.
- The Foundational Principles explore Biblical stewardship principles in ways that are tailored to fit specific audiences and venues.
- The Additional Topics include developing good habits, budgeting, money and marriage, giving, savings, going until you are gone, work, biblical business, and more. The Additional Topics are the same in all tracks.
Evaluate your audience and choose the option below that best fits your situation.
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TRACK A
CHRONIC NEED
Assist those living in chronic financial difficulty.
42 CHAPTERS
Twelve Foundational lessons with basic Biblical financial teaching for neighbors and coworkers who struggle with chronic financial difficulties.
TRACK B
LOCAL COMMUNITY
Provide financial guidance to neighbors & coworkers.
36 CHAPTERS
Six Foundational lessons designed to reach out to middle-income neighbors and coworkers who desire financial teaching but probably wouldn’t attend a study at your church.
TRACK C
LOCAL CHURCH
Lead a biblical financial study with your church.
35 CHAPTERS
Five Foundational lessons with Biblical stewardship teaching for our Anabaptist churches, challenging and equipping us to better manage our resources.
TRACK D
YOUNG ADULT
Mentor youth through life’s difficult financial questions.
35 CHAPTERS
Five Foundational lessons to help Anabaptist youth understand Biblical stewardship and wrestle with life’s difficult questions.
“SURELY THERE IS SOMETHING
WE COULD DO TO REACH OUT
IN OUR AREA.”
Examples of course selection
- For a ten-week course with your neighbors, you could choose Track B, which has six Foundational lessons. Then study four more chapters from the Additional Topics that fit your neighbors’ interests.
- If your church is doing a one-week summer Bible school, you could choose Track C and study the five Foundational lessons. Each participant could study the Additional Topics on their own, or in future mid-week church services.
- For your three-week Youth Bible School, the class could study the five Foundational lessons from Track D, and then choose ten lessons from the Additional Topics that address the current stewardship issues of the day.
In the lessons
The Salt & Light courses are not lectures; they encourage each person’s participation and engagement. Lessons are packed with:
- Scriptural passages
- True stories and real-life illustrations
- Discussion questions
- Group activities
- Financial forms and worksheets
- and more!
Facilitator guides are available with all tracks to assist the discussion leader.
Not sure what is the best Track for you?
Download the Course Description (PDF).
This 12-page document lists the Table of Contents for all Tracks.
Salt & Light Training Resources
Designed for Facilitators, Salt & Light offers video recordings and worksheets as a digital download, or as printed materials and recordings.
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