No doubt about it: When you chose to set-up a Financial & Business Literacy Institute at your church you’ve made a start decision.

You’ve successfully completed the 1-day Economic Empowerment Conference and Expo, and your church and community are fired up! They’re ready to start working toward a new financial future, and you want to help them take the lessons they’ve learned on financial vision and possibility and take them into that future.

What’s the next step?

This unique, long-range program is a community based program to help both adults and children take charge of their finances and their lives in order to turn around their life situations for good. Nothing drags down a person more than the constant worry and struggle of financial hardship, and so often they just don’t know how to change it. The behavior that got them into financial trouble is the same behavior they’ve known for generations.

What is the mission of The Financial & Business Literacy Institute?
The Financial & Business Literacy Institute educates, trains, and re-directs the way the typical American family thinks about debt, money and spending. Based on an African American family model, this unique program will prepare families for a future free from debt and based on economic empowerment, success and opportunities to excel based on their own talents and interests.

Startling Facts!
Did you know that over 1.5 million families applied for personal bankruptcy in 2003? That’s 1.5 million families with no credit, no credit cards, no way to take out a loan if there’s a need, no way to buy a house, no way to get ahead for at least seven years… That’s why it’s so important to educate your congregation and your community and your children (after all, our children are our future!) about how to handle money properly and establish a proper financial future!

What make this program unique?
The Financial & Business Literacy Institute provides in-depth education and training that no other faith-based seminar can provide. Our program includes classroom instruction, case studies, real-world simulations and group activities along with course readings and individual assignments. Unusual training procedures include board games and dramatic reconstructions to keep the learning process lively and engaging.

By training and educating selected members of your own congregation to become instructors, you can then take the Financial & Business Literacy Institute into your own community, making it a living, growing entity for positive change and economic growth for years to come in your own community. By providing both spiritual and economic aid to your people, you will be shepherding your flock in ways never before possible.

“The Lord shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought and make fat your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” Isaiah 58:11

What will this program enable me to do?
With the Financial & Business Literacy Institute, your church can provide not only the Living Water of salvation, but also a financial spring that will renew the lifeblood of your congregation and community for years, even decades, to come!

How do I get started?
Contact Miles International today, and soon your entire community will be thanking you for the renewed economic growth in your church, your congregation and your hometown!