Navigating Through the Valley of Financial Uncertainty: New Manual Provides Fresh Approach to Financial Management

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MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- In times of economic uncertainty, people need more than just a quick-fix to their problems- they need effective approaches, new information, and a new reorientation to financial decisions. In her new nonfiction, Shepherd's Guide through the Valley of Debt and Financial Change: A Comprehensive Manual for Financial Management, Counseling and Spiritual Guidance (published by AuthorHouse), author, financial consultant, minister and college professor Dr. Flora L. Williams provides readers with a guide to financial management, counseling theories and techniques, spiritual guidance in economic behavior and responses to the economic downturn.

In The Shepherd's Guide, Williams provides technical information, practical solutions, illustrations, and inspiration for a faith-based journey to financial abundance. Content and case studies are based are internationally known Dr. Williams' 32 years of teaching, research, counseling, study, and ministry. Shepherds for which the manual is designed are professionals and volunteers who want to improve their excellence and expertise, and become skilled in areas where they here-to-fore were ill-equipped but now are the most pressing needs of people today. Williams writes:

"The financial predicaments and possibilities increase the shepherds' skills in helping people as well as helping themselves with financial decisions. Many shepherds know so little about financial counseling because the church and seminaries encourage them to ignore the issues for themselves and for people under their care. Customarily, people do not seek counseling from shepherds in financial crisis or decision-making. They perceive the shepherd does not know financial principles or practice them."

Williams' beliefs are expressed:

"We must mobilize the resources within a person, within the family, and within the community around them. The book is transformative and gives new orientations to handle money and wealth. It provides theories, facts, actions, principles, case studies, and alternatives in vital areas of financial management. It resolves conflicts between culture's hold on economic behavior and following one's unique goals."

About the Author: Williams is Professor Emerita at Purdue University, family economist, financial counselor, master of divinity, ordained minister, registered financial consultant, church musician, wife and mother of three children and three grandchildren. She started the major of financial counseling and planning at Purdue University and the award-winning (2001) financial counseling clinic. She has served on boards of directors for international organizations, has written 21 books, and presented over 100 papers and articles in numerous countries. For more information please visit: www.shepherdsguidetofinances.com.

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