2025 Finance Workshop

This event will run from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 4, 2025 in a beautiful home at: 40 Edgar Ave, Toronto, ON M4W 2A9. There is plentiful free parking on-site and along the street.

Lunch and childcare will be provided.

Cost is $20 per person (to cover food). Please e-transfer your registration fee to finance@zoetoronto.com.

RSVP Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025

PROGRAM DETAILS

Preliminary outline of the workshop:

[9:00-11:00] The Psychology & Theology of Money

[11:00-12:00] Interactive Work & Processing

[12:00-1:00] Lunch

[1:00-2:15] Understanding Income, Debt, & Savings

[2:15-3:30] Understanding Spending & Giving

[3:30-3:45] Break

[3:45-5:00] Interactive Personal Budget Work w/Coaching

Required Pre-Work

We desire this workshop to be highly practical and personally transformative. Therefore, we are requiring every participant to do considerable preparatory work in order to get the most out of this experience.

You will not be admitted to the workshop without your completed pre-work in-hand! (We will not read your assignments but we will look to see that you have done them)

This is how serious we are about you being able to get the most out of this workshop! If you are not able to invest this kind of time (est. 6 hours) in the pre-work, it means this workshop just isn't for you at this time.

  • Writing Assignment #1 (est. 2 hours): Create a detailed record of your actual spending broken down by category, averaged across the 3 most recent months, using one of the 3 templates below:

    • Fili Fam Template (go to File > Make a Copy and edit liberally to fit your situation), or 

    • Conscious Spending Plan (click “Download Conscious Spending Plan), or

    • A personal template you already use and feel comfortable with

  • Writing Assignment #2 (est. 1 hour): Create a discerned budget (using the same template from Assignment 1 for side-by-side-comparison) where you have asked God two things:

    • 1. Line-by-line (from the above spending record from Assignment 1): would you desire this number to go up or down?

    • 2. What new things, if any, would you have me invest in?

  • Writing Assignment #3 (est. 30 minutes): Craft 1-3 financial goals with timelines between 6-24 months

Optional Pre-Work