{"id":375,"date":"2016-03-18T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/?p=375"},"modified":"2016-03-18T23:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:38:16","slug":"in-south-la-black-churches-serve-as-financial-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/18\/in-south-la-black-churches-serve-as-financial-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"In South LA, black churches serve as financial institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/4322148-in-south-l-a-black-churches-serve-as-financial-institutions\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAEV57FZk80EA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday mornings at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wardamechurch.com\/bgm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ward AME Church<\/a> in South Los Angeles, Pastor John Cager invites his congregation to come forward to the pulpit. It\u2019s offering time.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity teaches its\u00a0followers to give 10 percent of their income, or a tithe, to the church. The money\u00a0goes to the church\u2019s upkeep and provides charity to those who need it.<\/p>\n<p>Although tithing is a\u00a0religious practice, Cager wants the lesson to carry on past Sunday morning. He hopes the church&#8217;s predominantly African American congregants are able to walk away with a better understanding of how to manage the other 90 percent of their income that doesn\u2019t go to the church.<\/p>\n<p>In black communities, like South L.A., the church can be one of the few places for lower-income people to turn for financial education. To better serve their congregants,\u00a0some pastors are now going through <a href=\"https:\/\/crcc.usc.edu\/events-and-training\/murraycenter\/financial-literacy-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">training programs<\/a> to teach valuable money management skills.<\/p>\n<p>At Ward, budgeting tips are folded into the sermon. And Sunday school is an opportunity to bring in financial advisors and teach members how to pass the wealth down to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>The black church is poised to take on this challenge. Cager says the church has always been more than just a faith institution, and will continue to be so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancial literacy is important for everyone, but for people of color it is critical and the black church has historically been the vehicle for educating and empowering our people,\u201d Cager, the pastor of Ward AME, says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday mornings at Ward AME Church in South Los Angeles, Pastor John Cager invites his congregation to come forward to the pulpit. It\u2019s offering time. Christianity teaches its\u00a0followers to give 10 percent of their income, or a tithe, to the church. The money\u00a0goes to the church\u2019s upkeep and provides charity to those who need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,11],"tags":[20,69,70,22],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}