Solutions Blog – Page 9

The Joy of Financial Discipline: Giving Back

April 2, 2018 by DeForest Soaries in Financial Wellness

Many years ago, during travel to Jamaica, I stayed in the home of a gentleman who was 65 years old. This man’s major focus at the time was saving coins to give to his child to buy a mule. His son needed $175 in Jamaican dollars to buy a mule to expand his $700 annual […]

Celebrate Your Success Along the Journey

March 5, 2018 by DeForest Soaries in Financial Wellness

One of the most powerful ways to maintain focus and resist the cultural snares of greed and celebrity is to celebrate your victories along your journey of becoming debt free. Soon after I made helping members achieve financial freedom as a church priority, we began public celebrations of individual successes. Every fourth Sunday of the […]

Black Freedom

February 12, 2018 by DeForest Soaries in Racial Equality

Nearly three-quarters of all African Americans and a substantial portion of the rest of the population plan to see the Black Panther movie that marks the theatrical debut of the first black superhero in mainstream comics. Of course we want to see a beautiful black cast in an utopian paradise that can infuse us all […]

Live a Richer Life Planning for Death

February 5, 2018 by DeForest Soaries in Financial Wellness

Many of the stresses we have in life we bring upon ourselves – not by what we do but often by what we fail to do. We fail to consider the possibility that life will take a turn we hadn’t anticipated. We fail to recognize that we’re more likely to have a disability before we […]

Get Ahead Financially by Starting with End in Mind

January 8, 2018 by DeForest Soaries in Financial Wellness

Before I started talking about financial freedom to members of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, so many were struggling because of debt. I remember one woman whose trouble started with a parking ticket that was less than $20. Because she did not pay the ticket, a warrant was issued for her arrest and her […]